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Fire crews battle the Kenneth Fire in the West Hills section of Los Angeles, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope, File)
Firefighters need better weather to fight California’s flames. When will they get relief?
Fire danger remains high in parts of Los Angeles that have been ablaze for days. But there is hope that better weather over the weekend will give firefighters battling the flames some relief.
 
FILE - A man wraps his shirt over his face as he tries to extinguish a fire, near the seaside resort of Lindos, on the Aegean Sea island of Rhodes, southeastern Greece, on July 24, 2023. Europe is facing growing climate risks and is unprepared for them, the European Environment Agency said in its first-ever risk assessment for the bloc Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)
Europe is not prepared for the growing climate extremes it faces, its first risk assessment finds
Europe is facing growing climate risks and is unprepared. That’s according to the European Environment Agency’s first-ever risk assessment about the impact of climate change on the continent.
 
People walk through the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
After a fast start, COP28 climate talks now in murky middle of hope, roadblocks
After a first-day blur of rare quick action and agreement, negotiators at a critical United Nations climate conference Wednesday are finishing up their first week in a more familiar place for them: the murky middle where momentum and roadblocks intertwine.
 
(AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)
How did humans get to the brink of crashing climate?
Earth’s climate is in trouble, and the signs could be seen around the world this summer. Record-breaking heat, deadly flooding, withering droughts, wildfires that choked air for thousands of miles and more hurricanes growing rapidly.
 
A steam train travels through the Harz mountains where the trees are destroyed by the bark beetle and drought, near Schierke, Germany, Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Bark beetles are eating through Germany’s Harz forest. Climate change is making matters worse
Tiny bark beetles have been causing havoc in Germany’s Harz mountains, eating away at trees and killing off swaths of the spruce population by hampering their ability to take in nutrients.
 
Solar panels are mounted on poles above a hops field near Au in der Hallertau, Germany, Wednesday, July 19, 2023. Solar panels atop crops has been gaining traction in recent years as incentives and demand for clean energy skyrocket. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They’re not the only crop thriving in the shade.
A farm in Bavaria is covering its hops with solar panels, providing electricity to 250 households and shading the plants from the increasingly scorching summer heat in the process.
 
FILE - A man uses a chainsaw on a fallen tree in Port Vila, Vanuatu, March 1, 2023. The countries of the United Nations led by the island nation of Vanuatu adopted what they called a historic resolution Wednesday, March 29, calling for the U.N.'s highest court to strengthen countries' legal obligations to curb warming and protect communities from climate disaster. (Matt Hardwick/Australian Broadcasting Corp. via AP, File)
UN seeks court opinion on climate in win for island states
The countries of the United Nations led by the island nation of Vanuatu adopted what they called a historic resolution Wednesday calling for the U.N.
 
FILE - Mari Carmen Zambrano poses for a photo on her broken and wet bed as she dries it outside her home that lost its roof to Hurricane Ian in La Coloma, in the province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)
EXPLAINER: How will UN climate deal on loss and damage work?
The establishment of a fund to help poor nations getting hit hard by extreme weather events was one of the most significant decisions to come out of U.N. climate talks the last 30 years.
 
Employees look up at the construction site of Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset, England, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. Sites like Hinkley have become integral to the U.K. government’s “net zero” by 2050 strategy. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Hopes and costs are high for UK’s nuclear energy future
Sites like the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant have become integral to the U.K. government’s “net zero” by 2050 strategy.
 
Why do small degrees of warming matter? (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)
Climate Questions: Why do small degrees of warming matter?
Nations around the world are trying to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, with the world already having warmed at least 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) since then.
 
How much has the climate changed already? (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)
Climate Questions: How much has the climate changed already?
From incrementally rising temperatures and seas to an influx of natural disasters, the climate right now certainly isn’t the same as it was before the industrial era.
 
What are the solutions to climate change? (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)
Climate Questions: What are the solutions to climate change?
As the world warms and extreme weather events mount, governments and corporations have been called on to address climate change by top officials, climate scientists and activists and to curb levels of heating.
 
What's going on with climate change? (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)
Climate Questions: What’s going on with climate change?
Addressing climate change — a now ubiquitous term for the warming of the planet caused by humans emitting carbon dioxide and methane from coal, oil and natural gas into the atmosphere — is becoming exponentially more pressing, with the language of scientists, officials and activists becoming more se
 
A police officer givers water to a British soldier wearing a traditional bearskin hat, on guard duty outside Buckingham Palace, during hot weather in London, Monday, July 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
AP PHOTOS: Europe seeks to stay cool in record-breaking heat
CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) — From a usually-temperate Britain to Europe’s blistering southern nations, people across the continent are trying to stay cool amid sweltering temperatures.