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Life and death in the heat. What it feels like when Earth’s temperatures soar to record highs
As the warming Earth sizzled through a week with four of the hottest days ever measured, the world focused on cold hard numbers that showed the average daily temperature for the entire planet.
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Wood pellets production boomed to feed EU demand. It’s come at a cost for Black people in the South
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Africa’s demand for cooling systems is expanding. But regulating the industry is a struggle
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Wind farms’ benefits to communities can be slow or complex, leading to opposition and misinformation
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Wind power can be a major source of tax revenue, but officials struggle to get communities on board
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In Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, a hidden underground world is under threat by the Maya Train
In Indonesia, women ranger teams go on patrol to slow deforestation
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Recovery of Brazil’s Spix’s macaw, popularized in animated ‘Rio’ films, threatened by climate change
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Resigned to a fate of constant displacement, India’s river islanders return home in between floods
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Corn, millet and ... rooftop solar? Farm family’s newest crop shows China’s solar ascendancy
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To make water last year-round, Kenyans in dry regions are building sand dams on seasonal rivers
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Extreme heat and its impact on humans
For India’s garbage pickers, a miserable and dangerous job made worse by extreme heat
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Summer camps are for getting kids outdoors, but more frequent heat waves force changes
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How does heat kill? It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart
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Climate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer and 35 times more likely
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Surfing in Tahiti: 2024 Paris Olympics
Hundreds are set to descend on Tahiti for Olympic surfing. Can locals protect their way of life?
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In Teahupo’o, Tahiti, coastal village life thrives among powerful waves
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Indigenous peoples: adapting to and combatting climate change
As climate change alters lakes, tribes and conservationists fight for the future of spearfishing
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Behind Upper Midwest tribal spearfishing is a long and violent history of denied treaty rights
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More Indigenous youth are learning to spearfish, a connection to ancestors and the land
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For at least a decade Quinault Nation has tried to escape the rising Pacific. Time is running out
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The demise of the Aral Sea
On the Aral Sea, graves rise above the dust. They’re reminders of the life its waters once sustained
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Climate change is fueling the disappearance of the Aral Sea. It’s taking residents’ livelihoods, too
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These men once relied on the Aral Sea. Today, the dry land is a reminder of lost livelihoods
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The Aral Sea has all but disappeared. But in small towns and villages, signs of life are popping up
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Gulf oil spill: Workers left behind
Once praised, settlement to help sickened BP oil spill workers leaves most with nearly nothing
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Takeaways from AP’s story on the BP oil spill medical settlement’s shortcomings
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BP defeated thousands of suits by sick Gulf spill cleanup workers. But not one by a boat captain
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Paris is aiming for the most sustainable Olympics yet. Organizers acknowledge the plan isn’t perfect
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E-waste is overflowing landfills. At one sprawling Vietnam market, workers recycle some of it
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For farmers, watching and waiting is a spring planting ritual. Climate change is adding to anxiety
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Drought, heat and mismanagement make getting fresh water an increasingly tough task
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Citizen scientist measured Rockies snowfall for 50 years. Two new hips help him keep going
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Invaders from underground are coming in cicada-geddon. It’s the biggest bug emergence in centuries
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In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice
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From urchin crushing to lab-grown kelp, efforts to save California’s kelp forests show promise
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Olympics pre-race triathlon event in Seine River canceled over water quality concerns
Concerns over the water quality of Paris’ Seine River have continued into the 2024 Olympics, with a pre-race triathlon event there canceled Sunday.
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At least 12 killed by mudslide in China as heavy rains from tropical storm Gaemi drench region
Chinese state media say 12 people were killed after a mudslide hit a homestay house in a mountainous tourist area as heavy rains drenched southeastern China.
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Firefighters helped by cooler weather battle blaze that has scorched area larger than Los Angeles
Thousands of firefighters battling a wildfire in northern California are getting some help from the weather just hours after the blaze exploded in size, scorching an area larger than Los Angeles.
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Fires in the West are becoming ever bigger, consuming. Why and what can be done?
Experts say a massive wildfire in northern California and scores of smaller ones across the western U.S. and Canada are the legacy of the nation’s fire-suppression experts and climate change.
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Olympic triathletes hope the Seine River is clean enough for swimming after recent rains
Days before they’re set to plunge into the Seine River during the Paris Olympics, triathletes are holding out hope that the famous waterway’s bacteria levels would be safe enough for swimming.
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Heat wave forces Iran to shutter government offices and banks. Electricity consumption soars
A heat wave blanketing Iran has forced authorities to cut operating hours at various facilities Saturday and order all government and commercial institutions to shutter the following day.
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The Philippines says a cargo of oil has started to leak from a tanker that sank in Manila Bay
Philippine authorities say the cargo of industrial fuel oil on a tanker that sank in stormy weather in Manila Bay has started to leak in small amounts.
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Firefighters helped by cooler weather battle blaze that has scorched area size of Los Angeles
Thousands of firefighters battling a wildfire in northern California are getting some help from the weather just hours after the blaze exploded in size, scorching an area larger than Los Angeles.
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US coastal communities get $575M to guard against floods, other climate disasters
The federal government is giving more than a half-billion dollars to coastal communities to help them use nature-based preventative measures to address climate-related flooding and other disasters.
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Nebraska’s EV conundrum: Charging options can get you places, but future will require growth
Don Cox, one of the first Nebraskans to own an electric vehicle, has put more than 400,000 miles on his EVs since 2008.
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Federal control board sues Puerto Rico’s governor over net metering law
A federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico’s finances has filed a lawsuit challenging amendments to the island’s net metering law, triggering a backlash.
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Scores of wildfires are scorching swaths of the US and Canada. Here’s the latest on some of them
Scores of wildfires across the United States and Canada have scorched swaths of land in California, Oregon, Idaho, Alberta and beyond, forcing evacuations and road closures, as well as destroying and threatening structures.
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Joyce DiDonato stars in `Eden in Olympia’ coinciding with Paris Games, a call to climate action
While much of the globe is focused on the Paris Olympics, a movie filmed in ancient Olympia starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato premiered this week that uses music to spark contemplation of creation and carnage.
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California’s largest wildfire explodes in size as fires rage across US West
California’s largest active fire has exploded in size, growing rapidly amid bone-dry fuel and threatening thousands of homes as firefighters scramble to meet the danger.
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Typhoon Gaemi weakens to a tropical storm as it moves inland carrying rain toward central China
What was Typhoon Gaemi has weakened to a severe tropical storm and is moving inland toward central China on after making landfall Thursday night on the east coast.
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How is wave forecasting done and how does it impact the Paris Olympics surfing competition?
The search for the perfect wave has been a part of surfing culture for decades, with surfers traveling from location to location in their quest for the best swells.
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Philippines plans to siphon off oil cargo from sunken tanker to avert ‘environmental catastrophe’
The Philippine coast guard says there has been no indication that a big cargo of industrial fuel oil stored in a tanker that sank in stormy weather in Manila Bay has started to leak out.
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Ethiopia declares 3 days of national mourning as mudslide death toll rises to 257
Ethiopian lawmakers declared three days of mourning Friday as diggers continued the search for bodies of mudslide victims in a remote part of the East African country.
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Heavy rain in northern Japan triggers floods and landslides, forcing hundreds to take shelter
Heavy rain has hit northern Japan, triggering floods and landslides, disrupting transportation systems and sending hundreds of residents to take shelter at safer grounds.
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Rebuilding Rome, the upstate New York city that is looking forward after a destructive tornado
A tornado that touched down in the small, upstate New York city of Rome ripped roofs from houses, reduced brick buildings to rubble and toppled steeples from two historic churches.
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