Aslori carries toilets he recovered from his and a relative’s house, as he and several neighbors return from visiting their old abandoned houses in Mondoliko, Central Java, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
A Spix’s macaw soars over a breeding facility project in its native habitat in a rural area of Curaca, Bahia state, Brazil, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)This story has been corrected to state that the birds were moved, not sold, to a nonprofit in Germany, and language was changed to indicate the first release into the wild was in 2022, not 2021.
The Associated Press’ climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP’sfor working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas atLES SABLES D’OLONNE, France (AP) — When aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard
spearheaded a much-hyped flight around the world in a plane powered by sunlight, it raised awareness about climate change but held little promise of revolutionizing air travel.Now, the 66-year-old Swiss adventurer behind
is aiming higher, in hopes of heading toward greener commercial flight than that of fossil fuel-powered planes today — this time using super-cold liquid hydrogen.
From a workshop on France’s Atlantic coast, Piccard and partners are ramping up Climate Impulse, a project started last February to fly a two-seater plane around the globe nonstop over nine days fueled by what’s known as green hydrogen. That’s hydrogen split out of water molecules using renewable electricity through a process called electrolysis.in February 2020 of four counts of capital murder, four counts of murder, two counts of kidnapping, one count of attempted murder and one count of armed robbery.
A jury sentenced Godbolt to death for each of the capital murders. For the other convictions, Godbolt was sentenced to six life sentences and two 20-year terms.Godbolt, now 42, is on
at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.The Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed his convictions and death sentences in March 2024.