As global climate change leads to more hot and dry weather, the resulting droughts are stressing plants, making them less able to remove ozone — which at ground level is a dangerous pollutant — from the air.

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SAN FRANCISCO - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced nine projects across California will receive a total of nearly $4 million to assess and clean up contaminated properties under the agency’s Brownfields Program.

Demand comes as TUI China resumes some tours

It asks for patience while it processes refunds and credit notes

I love walking on my own. It is never a lonely experience. There is too much to see and too much to take in . Even on Day 24 of the lockdown I am still finding nooks and a cranny or two in our village that I have never investigated before . Yes I am coveri

Many countries in Eastern Europe are taking drastic measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 -- in part because their health-care systems may not be up to the task.

The European Commission is limited in what it can do to combat the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but this only makes it more imperative for Brussels to set the correct priorities.

Faced with a growing economic crisis, many European Union member states are clamoring for the introduction of so-called corona bonds. Just like it was in the euro crisis, though, Germany is opposed. In the end, Berlin may not have a choice. By DER SPIEGEL Staff

On Thursday, European leaders will discuss how to navigate the block through the economic crisis triggered by the novel coronavirus. In a DER SPIEGEL interview, European Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni talks about what is at stake and the need to find at least 1 trillion euros.

The Austrian winter-sports mecca of Ischgl is well known for its parties. But after helping spread the virus across Europe, the town's reputation is changing to one of incompetence and greed.

Just as Volkswagen was undergoing a radical restructuring to focus on e-mobility and driverless cars, the company has announced it is shutting down factories across Europe due to the coronavirus. There is hope in China, however.

After Hurricane Dorian savaged the northern islands of the Bahamas, damaged properties loom as a target for real estate speculators.

In a report published Sunday, the Tampa Bay Times said that it discovered the extent of Scientology property purchases by reviewing more than 1,000 deeds and business records and then interviewed more than 90 people to reconstruct the circumstances surrounding the transactions.

The Flat racing calendar in the northern hemisphere remains mired in uncertainty, but in one jurisdiction the first Classics of the season have been staged as the coronavirus pandemic rages.

A new study suggests a half-ton bird roamed Europe nearly 2 million years ago, around when our Homo predecessors were first entering the region.

A new analysis of a skull found in Greece decades ago suggests that early humans may have been in Eurasia as early as 210,000 years ago.

Mountain lions in southern California are endangered by rat poison and development. Time to protect them.

Times Business Editor Kimi Yoshino announced the debut of the Hot Property blog, and the addition of reporter Neal Leitereg.

Nearly all of the assaults occurred on Thursday along the border of South Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant between 9:55 and 11:15 a.m., cops said.

The deadline for Real ID has been postponed for a year and the need for paperwork to visit 26 European countries is also delayed.

A resident who was unable to access an emergency escape route during a fire was found standing on a windowsill hanging from guttering and had to be rescued by firefighters

Healthcare providers undergo a complicated process to make sure their N95 masks are doing their job. Members of the public may have a false sense of security.

Beach Boys member Mike Love has listed his estate in Rancho Santa Fe for $8.65 million. Also: Shia LaBeouf has bought a home in Pasadena, and the former Miami home of LeBron James has resurfaced for sale.

NFL lineman Matt Kalil, who was an All-American at USC, has paid $3.812 million for a gated estate in Pasadena.

Actress Kaley Cuoco of "Big Bang Theory" has sold her Tarzana home at a loss of about $1.5 million. Also: Julia Roberts sells a Malibu estate.

A Hollywood Hills mansion that the late pop star Prince was once sued over is back up for sale at about $30 million. Also: Lee Iacocca's Bel-Air estate has sold, and Eli Broad has relisted his Malibu compound at $75 million.

Lakers superstar Anthony Davis is shooting for about $8 million for his Westlake Village home of two years.

Hot Property: P.K. Subban and Lindsey Vonn have bought a home in the Beverly Hills Post Office area for $6.75 million. Also: Tavis Smiley is selling his longtime Hancock Park home, and 'Aladdin' star Mena Massoud finds new digs in Encino.

Longtime Chargers QB Philip Rivers has put his San Diego home up for sale. Kylie Jenner buys in Bel-Air. OneRepublic's Brent Kutzle lists in Topanga.

Exclusive: analysis of Eurocontrol flight data shows the small Leicestershire airport ahead of Madrid, Rome and Munich

Heathrow, previously the busiest airport in Europe, did not even make the top three on 14 April

For a while now many European governments have resorted to austerity measures to deal with the recession and financial crises affecting them. This may have either been by choice, or pressured from the outside.

However, as has been warned countless times, excessive austerity rarely works. Furthermore, focusing on debts and deficits appears to miss the point that the economic problems were caused by a collapse in markets and banking sector in particular, resulting in less revenues for governments; not necessarily an excessive overspend by governments.

Some of the policies being forced through even when evidence appears to show they do not work lead many to think that austerity and structural adjustment policies are being ideologically pushed for — just as they were on most of the developing countries for almost 2 decades with devastating results.

Indeed, in the US, investigations have found billionaires pouring hundreds of millions of dollars on campaigns to fix the debt making it appear as a grassroots movement. Fixing the debt of course happens to leave the elite less affected, so it works to their advantage to push for something like that.

Without more focus on appropriate economic growth, there is a real risk in going backwards, and even undermining democracy.

The global financial crisis page on this web site has been updated with new sections and videos on this issue.

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Coca-Cola European Partners is issuing precautionary advice for opening Coca-Cola Original Taste 1.5 litre PET bottles because the bottles may have damaged neck rings which means that the bottle mi

BBC Weather have forecasted a rapid plummet in temperature due to Arctic winds after a bout of heavy rain and thunderstorms on Sunday.

A SHOCKING weather graphic shows for many parts of Europe, the dry, sunny weather may be over as Arctic air is forecast to ice over large regions of the continent.

PROPERTY values in the UK don't yet appear to have been impacted by the Covid-19 crisis, although industry leaders are unsure as to how long the current status quo can be maintained. With thousands of residential transactions on hold, it's extremely difficult to gauge the effect the pandemic has had on the property market since lockdown measures were introduced on March 26th.

PROPERTY owners are set to struggle from next month as renters are unable to pay their monthly fees due to income being reduced or cut because of the coronavirus pandemic, businessman Jeremy King warned.

IT WAS the inevitability that we were merely waiting to have confirmed. Latest data released this morning by mortgage lender Halifax indeed confirms that house prices cooled in April, as one would expect given the economic impacts of the current health crisis.

Local officials say the community is shocked that racism could have fueled the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery.

PEACE and VICTORY were the headlines as the U.S. defeated Germany.

Actor Brendan Fraser, who was born in Indianapolis, talks to GQ magazine about being groped in 2003.

Look inside this 1950s modern home at 6474 Meridian St.

Securities and Exchange Commission filings detail executive pay cuts for Simon Property Group executives as forced closures impact business operations

Two days ago Mario Hidalgo, CEO of the Spanish airline “Hola Airlines“ , announced that Hola Airlines (Baleares Link Express SL) has been obliged by the US government to stop its operations in Cuba . The US Government threatened Hola Airlines via Boeing to end the service of maintenance of the Boeing aircraft belonging to the [...]

PEACE and VICTORY were the headlines as the U.S. defeated Germany.

Simon executives are furious at Indianapolis officials.

The EEC is donating £1.8 million to help combat the famine in Ethiopia.

At exactly 1500 on 8 May 1945, British PM Winston Churchill announced the end of the war in Europe.