FILE - Visible deforestation from illegal mining is visible along rivers near Paimado, Colombia, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)
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FILE - People maneuver by boat through the low water levels of a tributary that connects with the Amazon River, in Isla de la Fantasia, on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)
Dry conditions across Wicomico County are forcing local growers to increase irrigation while placing additional stress on plants, wildlife and…
Georgia's oldest city is welcoming a truckload of historical treasures from the earlier period of U.S. history. Seventeen cannons that experts believe sank in a Georgia river during the American Revolution arrived by truck Wednesday at a Savannah museum that plans to put them on display during the Fourth of July weekend marking American's 250th birthday. Archaeologists say the big guns sat at the bottom of the Savannah River for nearly 240 years before they were discovered during a 2021 dredging project. The cannons spent years being cleaned and preserved at Texas A&M University before returning to Georgia.
The U.S. military has stopped another commercial vessel trying to break through the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports. A U.S. official told The Associated Press the Gambia-flagged bulk carrier Lian Star ignored multiple warnings from U.S. forces overnight. The ship was disabled by U.S. aircraft in the Gulf of Oman and remains adrift. The U.S. launched the blockade on April 17 in response to Iran effectively closing the strait after the war began with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Feb. 28. A fragile ceasefire has held since April 7, with ongoing discussions about extending it.
The Trump administration has placed additional sanctions on Iran as part of a sprawling economic pressure campaign during the war, this time targeting the country’s newly created agency that is trying to control shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. The move Wednesday, first reported by The Associated Press, is the latest U.S. effort to use economic leverage on top of military action to push Iran’s leadership into an agreement to end the war and open the waterway. The sanctions were announced late Wednesday after U.S. forces carried out strikes on an Iran military facility after downing Iranian attack drones, according to U.S. officials who were not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
FILE - A South Vietnamese Ranger holds his rifle above water as he crosses a canal in the Kien Hoa province in the Mekong Delta, South Vietnam on July 13, 1967, while his shorter comrades are up to their chins in water. (AP Photo/Dang Van Phuoc, File)
As the Colorado River and its once massive reservoirs shrink from overuse and climate change, officials are faced with a decision that pits co…
ABOARD THE RFA LYME BAY (AP) — Aboard the RFA Lyme Bay docked off the coast of Gibraltar, hundreds of British sailors are waiting to be deploy…
PARIS (AP) — The oldest bridge in Paris has begun to vanish this week, as the artist JR — who is known as the “French Banksy” — began inflatin…