Environment

Next 10 days crucial for farmers 'praying' for rain A twofold blow of record sunshine and low rainfall has left crops in "survival mode" and struggling to grow, a farmer has warned. The Met Office previously confirmed April 2025 saw the most sunshine in the UK since records began 115 years ago - with 47% more hours of sunshine than the long-term average. The recent weather follows England's wettest 18-month period between October 2022 and March 2024, which caused damage to the soil, according the Department of Environment and Rural...

Fox News host Jesse Watters on Tuesday defended Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent swim in Washington, D.C.’s, Rock Creek, saying it “looks clean.” “That [creek] looks clean,” Watters said on Fox News’s “The Five.” “It doesn’t look like it’s filled with sewage.” Kennedy recently revealed that he took a dip in the creek that runs right through the heart of the nation’s capital. “Mother’s Day hike in Dumbarton Oaks Park with Amaryllis, Bobby, Kick, and Jackson, and a swim with my grandchildren, Bobcat and...

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., grilled insurance executives over their policies that cut disaster payouts in a subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, The Hill reported. Hawley, chair of the Senate Homeland Security subcommittee, trained a spotlight on executives from Allstate and State Farm for policies that kept disaster funds from Americans who sustained major property damage from the past year's hurricanes and other natural disasters, according to the report. "We're talking about moms who have had to haul 5-gallon buckets of water because the pipes are gone.

Jesse Watters defended Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hazardous swim in Washington D.C.’s Rock Creek Tuesday, arguing that the polluted water was likely safe because it looked “clean.” “That creek looks clean. It doesn’t look like it is filled with sewage,” Watters said during a Tuesday segment of The Five while unpacking Kennedy’s weekend dip in the creek the National Park Service has deemed hazardous to human health. “I have seen Pete Hegseth swim miles and miles in a speedo in the Hudson River which you can’t even see through. This...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck off the island of Crete in Greece on Wednesday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.

The quake was at a depth of 52 miles, GFZ said.

Residents in Egypt also felt the quake with the country’s National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics reporting no casualties or property damage.

The institute said it recorded a quake of 6.4 magnitude 431 km off Egypt’s northern coasts.

Fervo Energy’s geothermal drilling rig is pictured Monday, May 12, 2025, in Beaver County, Utah. Fervo has drilled over 75% of the wells for Phase I of the development. Industrial geothermal energy has been used for nearly two centuries. It‘s not a new concept, but in the United States, it‘s taken a backseat to other renewable energy sources like wind and hydropower. One company is trying to change that. Founded in 2017, Texas-based Fervo Energy is making groundbreaking moves in the clean energy landscape, and they’re doing it in Utah’s...

Fox News host Jesse Watters defended Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for swimming in a sewage-contaminated creek on Tuesday, arguing the water looked “clean.” Reacting on The Five to Kennedy’s controversial dip at Rock Creek in Washington, D.C., where swimming is banned due to “high levels of bacteria,” Watters said he had seen Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth swim in dirtier water wearing just a pair of Speedos. “That creek looks clean. It doesn’t look like it’s filled with sewage,” said Watters. “And I have...