(AP) — Major American providers of oilfield services supplied Russia with millions of dollars in equipment for months after its invasion of Ukraine, helping to sustain a critical part of its economy even as Western nations launched sanctions aimed at starving the Russian war effort.

hile it seems like a green way to store photos, files and data because it's paperless, putting all your files into 'the cloud' or on data storage is actually quite energy inefficient. Cloud storage means your data (and millions of other users' data) is stored on hard drives in massive buildings that demand power 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you store one terabyte of information, it can equal about two tons of CO2 emissions every year. To minimize your carbon footprint, opt for your own external drives to store information, and routinely rid your cloud storage of unwanted files.