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Chesapeake Energy and Southwestern Energy have agreed to merge in an all stock-transaction valued at $7.4 billion that is aimed at creating a premier natural gas company.The companies on Thursday said the value is based on Chesapeake’s closing price as of Wednesday.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Chesapeake Energy and Southwestern Energyhave agreed to merge in an all stock-transaction valued at $7.4 billion that is aimed at creating a premier natural…

Map of study region and extent of 2020 drought. The study region is shown in black, encompassing portions of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. Extent of USDM drought classifications for 29 December 2020 are shown as well. Credit: Earth's Future (2023). DOI: 10.1029/2022EF002943 The American Southwest has always been a dry place—cue romantic visions of hot, rugged, sun-bleached, seemingly infinite landscapes and…

Fire destroyed 4,141 km² of forest and 6,484 km² of pasture and cropland between 2003 and 2019 in the area of Boca do Acre. Credit: Débora Dutra A swathe of the Amazon Rainforest almost twice the size of Luxembourg was destroyed by fire between 2003 and 2019. The area is in the southwest of Amazonas state, in Brazil's North region, and includes parts of nine municipalities with some of the worst sustainable development…

In just the past few weeks, wild monkeys have attacked at least 58 people in and around the city of Yamaguchi in southwestern Japan, and no one seems to know exactly why, according to a report from the Associated Press. “I have never seen anything like this my entire life,” city official Masato Saito told the AP on Wednesday. Things have gotten so bad that Yamaguchi city hall has assembled a special unit to tranquilize and capture the primates.So far, there have been no serious injuries but victims have incurred scratches…

Crops were not fully filled, and the rate of empty straw greatly increased in Weishan County, Yunnan province, China under drought conditions. Photo taken on 21 April 2021. Credit: Yong Zhu Southwestern China (SWC) is a region on the southeastern side of the Tibetan Plateau, in which both southwesterly and southeasterly winds influence weather patterns during the summer monsoon period. Spring drought before the onset of the…