Companies are showing investors their pollution-reduction efforts by paying landowners to not cut trees, and documenting the saved carbon emissions with assets called carbon offsets.

Despite not showing up to work since 2005, the unidentified 67-year-old man continued to receive a monthly paycheck. Over the course of the last decade and a half, he collected a salary amounting to €538,000 ($647,000).

The largely symbolic decision, would come after a majority of House Republicans voted in a secret ballot to back Democrats’ return to earmarking.

Social media platforms TikTok and Facebook say rumors spreading about a "National Rape Day" on April 24 are unsubstantiated.TikTok users have been warning others to be careful on Saturday after videos declaring the day "National Rape Day" circulated on...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will announce stepped up efforts to reduce Canada's carbon footprint when he meets other world leaders at a virtual climate summit hosted by US President Joe Biden this week, a media report said Wednesday. The Biden administration...

A man was fatally shot while deputies were serving a warrant Wednesday morning in the North Carolina city of Elizabeth City, the Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office said.