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The nuclear power plant (NPP) Isar 2 is pictured in Essenbach, Germany, March 3, 2022. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered preparations for all of the country's three remaining nuclear reactors to continue operating until mid-April 2023. The move marks another hiccup in the country's long-running plan to end the use of atomic energy. (Armin Weigel/dpa via AP, File)

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EXPLAINER: Why Germany is delaying its nuclear shutdown
By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press
Tue,10/18/22-3:17AM , 81 Reads
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered preparations for all of the country's three remaining nuclear reactors to continue operating until mid-April.
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A view of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, in Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia region, in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine, on May 1, 2022. The plant, that has been surrounded by Russian forces, lost power Wednesday morning, Oct. 12, 2022, when a Russian missile damaged a distant electrical substation, increasing the risk of radiation disaster, according to the plant's operator. (AP Photo/File)

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EXPLAINER: Power cuts raise risk at Ukraine nuclear plant
By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press
Wed,10/12/22-12:57PM , 68 Reads
BERLIN (AP) — A Ukrainian nuclear power plant that has been surrounded by Russian forces lost power Wednesday morning when a Russian missile damaged a distant electrical substation, increasing the risk of radiation disaster, according to the plant's operator.
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Managers of the Center for Civil Liberties react in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. On Friday, Oct. 7, 2022 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to jailed Belarus rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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Europe praises, Belarus scorns Nobel for rights defenders
By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press
Fri,10/07/22-7:13AM , 217 Reads
BERLIN (AP) — Officials in Europe and the U.S.
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Climate activist Lina Schinkoethe, left, and her mother Solvig Schinkoethe, second from left, sit with their hands glued to the ground during a protest with the group Uprising of the Last Generation in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. The group claims the world has only a few years left to turn the wheel around and avoid catastrophic levels of global warming. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

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German climate activists aim to stir friction with blockades
By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press
Fri,07/15/22-1:00AM , 1,531 Reads
BERLIN (AP) — “It’s absolutely crazy to stick yourself to the road with superglue,” admits Lina Schinkoethe.

And yet, the 19-year-old recently landed in jail for doing just that, in protest at what she believes is the German government's failure to act against climate change.
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