Category: As It Is (慢速新闻杂志)

Brazil’s state-run oil company, Petrobras, wants to look for oil near the nation’s northeastern coast. Ibama is Brazil’s environmental agency. The agency denied Petrobras’ first proposal to do exploratory drilling…

International negotiators are meeting in Canada’s capital to discuss writing a treaty to control plastic and pollution linked to it. The meeting in Ottawa is part of the United Nations…

South Korea’s Constitutional Court has begun hearing a case that accuses the government of failing to protect 200 people by not dealing with climate change. The case, which began Tuesday…

Tensions over strong opinions about Israel’s war in Gaza are spreading at some universities around the United States. On Monday, Columbia University in New York City canceled in-person classes. Pro-Palestinian…

Earth Day celebrates its 54th anniversary on Monday, April 22. On this date each year, millions of people around the world mark the importance of protecting the environment. Worries about…

Economic experts and business owners in the United States say immigrant workers have helped keep the country from falling into a recession. Economists predicted the United States economy would suffer…

Half of the world’s 75 poorest countries are getting poorer compared to the richest economies. That finding comes from the World Bank. The development agency based in Washington, D.C., recently…

Record rainfall in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) flooded streets in the desert nation and closed Dubai International Airport on Wednesday. The state-run WAM news agency called the rain that…

The first criminal trial of a former American president opened Monday in New York City. Donald J. Trump faces 34 charges of falsifying business records. Trump also is considered the…

United States and Chinese military planners are preparing for a new kind of warfare. The warfare of the future is likely to involve groups of air and sea drones equipped…

The number of Indian migrants entering the U.S. without legal permission has grown in recent years. In the past, Indian migrants interested in the U.S. crossed using the border with…

In a social media video, American Grace Xu told her 300,000 TikTok followers she was likely to lose her job. She was right, she tells them in a later video.…

There is a strong smell that comes off Ratna Raju’s farm in the southern Andhra Pradesh state of India. The smell comes from a mixture of natural materials, like cow…

Cities and towns in western Russia and Kazakhstan are facing heavy flooding. Europe’s third-longest river, the Ural, burst a dam causing floods that have forced over 110,000 people to flee…