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• New Zealand roiled by flash floods, landslides for third day

  Heavy rainfall hit New Zealand's north island again on Sunday, causing landslides, flash floods and knocking out roads, with the death toll rising to four after a person who had been missing was confirmed dead.

  

• What should Canada be doing about climate change? 25 recommendations

  The national Net-Zero Advisory Body released 25 recommendations Friday for how Canada can adjust its climate plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 — a goal that the country is not on track to reach right now, according to the report.

  

• Climate activists block main road into The Hague, sparked by restrictions

  Hundreds of climate activists blocked one of the main roads into The Hague on Saturday, defying attempts to prevent their protest that have sparked concerns about restrictions on the right to demonstrate in the Netherlands.

  

• House GOP seeks new restrictions on use of U.S. oil stockpile, draws veto threat

  House Republicans are seeking to restrict presidential use of the nation's emergency oil stockpile -- a proposal that has already drawn a White House veto threat. A GOP bill set for a vote Friday would require the government to offset any non-emergency withdrawals from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with new drilling on public lands and oceans.

  

• Enough rare earth minerals to fuel green energy shift: study

  The world has enough rare earth minerals and other critical raw materials to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy to produce electricity and limit global warming, according to a new study that counters concerns about the supply of such minerals.

• 3 dead, 1 missing as rain pounds New Zealand's largest city

  Authorities said Saturday that three people had died and at least one was missing after record levels of rainfall pounded New Zealand's largest city, causing widespread disruption.

• AI wildfire detection bill gets initial approval in Colorado

  A year after the most destructive wildfire in the state's history scorched nearly 1,100 homes, Colorado lawmakers are considering joining other Western states by adopting artificial intelligence in the hopes of detecting blazes before they burn out of control.

• Elton John concert cancelled due to wild New Zealand weather

  Torrential rain and wild weather in Auckland on Friday caused disruptions throughout the city and an Elton John concert to be cancelled just before it was due to start.

• B.C. valley of ancient trees, rare animals preserved in deal with forest firm

  A valley of giant trees, lakes and wetlands in southeastern British Columbia nearly 200 times the size of Vancouver's Stanley Park is being preserved in an agreement with governments, Indigenous groups, a forest company and the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

• Iceberg roughly the size of London breaks off in Antarctica

  An iceberg nearly the size of Greater London broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on Sunday according to the British Antarctic Survey.

• Oilsands execs say they can't invest in decarbonization any faster, despite profits

  Oilsands executives insist they are all in on cutting emissions and will make big investments in green technology, but they maintain there isn't a place to invest that money yet. Many companies are coming off a year of windfall profits not because they pumped out more product, but because the war in Ukraine and global supply chain crunches pushed world oil prices way up.

• Storm system dumps heavy, wet snow on Indiana and Michigan

  Heavy, wet snow -- part of a storm system that spawned tornadoes in the Houston area -- has covered roads, vehicles, houses and buildings Wednesday from central and northern Indiana into much of southeastern Michigan.