Climate

The Belo Monte hydroelectric dam stands in the Xingu River in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, Sept. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

Legal setbacks against a dam in the Amazon raise questions about Brazil’s reliance on hydropower

Brazilian courts have found that the Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Amazon failed to meet environmental and social requirements.

Daniel Love walks home from the convenience store up Delta Avenue during a winter storm, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

It’s one storm after another for much of the US, but the next one’s path is uncertain

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist members, from left, Jon B. Wolfsthal, Asha M. George, Steve Fetter and Alexandra Bell, reveal the Doomsday Clock, set to 85 seconds to midnight, during a news conference at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, in Washington. On Tuesday, they announced Earth is closer than it's ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries become “increasingly aggressive, adversarial and nationalistic.” (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

‘Doomsday Clock’ moves closer to midnight over threats from nuclear weapons, climate change and AI

Allen Herzog, director of facilities at the Owensboro Convention Center, blows snow off the loading dock of the facility as a winter storm passes though the area Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Owensboro, Ky. (Greg Eans/The Messenger-Inquirer via AP)

Frost quakes cause loud booms, light shaking when bitterly cold temperatures persist

Pedestrians walk down Fifth Avenue during a winter storm, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Paralyzing winter storms put a big chill on the US economy, but how much?

Unsafe water in mobile homes

Gerardo Sanchez, an outreach coordinator with the immigrant and farmworker justice group TODEC, helps deliver bottled water to mobile home residents in Oasis, Calif., Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

For millions in US mobile home parks, clean and safe tap water isn’t a given

Virgilio Galarza Rodriguez works outside his mobile home in Oasis, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Takeaways from AP’s report on water quality and safety at US mobile home parks

Empty water jugs sit in the bed of a pickup truck as Agustin Toledo and his wife, Ricarda, mobile home residents in Southern California's eastern Coachella Valley, travel to a nearby water store to refill them in Oasis, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

PHOTO ESSAY: Many Californians lack safe tap water and don’t trust cleanup efforts

Theo Gantos walks outside his mobile home, Thursday, April 24, 2025, in Genesee County, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Michigan led on safe water after Flint, but mobile home parks are stubborn rough spot

Ambler Access Road proposal at issue in Alaska

Tristen Pattee hunts with his family along the Kobuk River near Ambler, Alaska, where heavy rains have contributed to riverbank erosion Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

Climate change is straining Alaska’s Arctic. A new mining road may push the region past the brink

Erosion is visible on the banks of the Kobuk River near Ambler, Alaska, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

Takeaways from AP’s report on potential impacts of Alaska’s proposed Ambler Access Road

Roswell Schaeffer, an Inupiaq hunter and fisher, helps his great-grandson James Schaeffer, 7, scope ducks while hunting in Kotzebue, Alaska, Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

In Alaska’s warming Arctic, photos show an Indigenous elder passing down hunting traditions

Defenders of people and land in Colombia

Patricia Elago Zetty, an Indigenous Guard, poses for a photo on July 16, 2025, in Caldono, Colombia. (AP Photo/Nadège Mazars)

Violent guerrillas are taking Colombia’s children. Unarmed Indigenous groups are confronting them

Eduwin Calambas Fernandez, coordinator of Kiwe Thegnas, which refers to Indigenous Guard in the Nasa Yuwe language, in Canoas, an Indigenous reserve in northern Cauca, Colombia, poses for a photo on July 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Nadège Mazars)

Takeaways from AP’s reporting on armed groups recruiting children in Colombia

A child is gently splashed with water, a ritual meant to protect them, July, 19, 2025, in the Lopez Adentro reserve in Caloto, Colombia. (AP Photo/Nadège Mazars)

After taking back land in Colombia, Indigenous prepare their youth to safeguard it

Participants in the Indigenous youth assembly gather to vote on coordinator of the youth movement July 12, 2025, in the conflict-hit reserve of Las Delicias, in Cauca, Colombia. (AP Photo/Nadège Mazars)

In Colombia, Indigenous youth seek to protect land. They have to escape violence to do it

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How accurate are weather apps, really?

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FILE - Salt is applied to the steps as snow falls at Buffalo Bills Highmark Stadium before an NFL football game between the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals, Dec. 7, 2025, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes, File)

Clearing snow? The kind of salt you use actually matters

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New York University turns spring semester move-in into a free thrift shop for students

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Save money on heating bills: Plug the cracks and holes in your house

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Which toilet paper is better for the planet?

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How to do a no-buy challenge without hating your life

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How to help lower the carbon footprint of holiday gift returns

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The hidden climate cost behind fast shipping

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How sewage can be used to heat and cool buildings

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Climate change is straining Alaska. A new mining road could push it past the brink

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How to shop, wrap and gift sustainably

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Closing coal mine sparks one family’s move to geothermal energy

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Can buying imperfect produce help cut costly food waste?

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Thanksgiving tips to waste less food and money

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What to know about COP30, this year’s United Nations climate talks

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Salt is spread on a street in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Jan. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

To clear ice and snow, there are rock salt alternatives that are safer for your pets and yard

Snow covers homes during a winter storm in Cincinnati, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

Blasting heat at home and still freezing? There are easy fixes to save money and stay warm

This photo shows toilet paper in Arlington, Va., Jan. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Phillis)

Eco-friendly toilet papers are trendy, but their actual environmental impacts vary

The 7-foot tall 2026 numerals are displayed at an illumination ceremony in Times Square, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)

Save money, get organized, live better: Common New Year’s resolutions can also cut climate impact

Shoppers wait in line to enter Macy's flagship store on Nov. 28, 2025 in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis, File)

Why your holiday gift returns might go to a landfill and what you can do about it

An Amazon Prime driver makes a delivery outside an apartment building in Pittsburgh, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Fast shipping is increasing emissions. Here’s why delivery has become more polluting

A young visitor describes to Santa Claus what he hopes to get for Christmas at Altamonte Mall on Dec. 21, 2022, in Altamonte Springs, Fla. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)

The holiday shopping season comes with tons of extra emissions. Here’s how to do it sustainably

A bouquet of flowers rests on a chair at a wedding ceremony at the Dade County Courthouse in Miami, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Gen Z and millennials embrace sustainable alternatives to imported fresh flowers

A shopper picks through corn while browsing the vendor booths set up at the Owensboro Regional Farmers' Market in Owensboro, Ky., Aug. 31, 2024. (Greg Eans/The Messenger-Inquirer via AP, File)

The most climate-friendly groceries might not be in the supermarket

Cans of cranberry sauce line a turkey display case at Bongi's Turkey Roost in advance of the Thanksgiving holiday, Nov. 22, 2022, in Duxbury, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Your Thanksgiving leftovers are harming the planet. There are ways to shop and cook smarter

A cat named Poke sits on a couch at a home on Dec. 5, 2023, in Waipahu, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

Pets contribute to greenhouse gases like us. Here’s how to reduce their carbon pawprint

A kid carves a pumpkin on the front porch of her home Oct 20, 2023, in Auburn, Maine. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal via AP, File)

Halloween pumpkin waste is a methane problem, but chefs and farmers have solutions

Climate solutions

Michael del Rosario, environmental education coordinator at Fundemar, shows a piece of ceramic with corals growing on it in Bayahibe, Dominican Republic on Oct. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Francesco Spotorno)

As reefs vanish, assisted coral fertilization offers hope in the Dominican Republic

A worker surveys Vo Van Van's rice fields after spraying fertilizer over the fields using a drone in Long An province in southern Vietnam's Mekong Delta, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. Using less water and using a drone to fertilize are new techniques that Van is trying and Vietnam hopes will help solve a paradox at the heart of growing rice: The finicky crop isn't just vulnerable to climate change but also contributes uniquely to it. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice

A worker stands near the NH3 Kraken, a tugboat powered by ammonia, on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, in Kingston, N.Y. (AP Photo/Alyssa Goodman)

Tugboat powered by ammonia sails for the first time, showing how to cut emissions from shipping

A worker turns excelsa coffee beans to dry near Nzara, South Sudan on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

As warming climate hammers coffee crops, this rare bean may someday be your brew

Swiss aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard touches Climate Impulse, a plane powered by liquid hydrogen, at the press presentation of the project in a hangar in Les Sables d'Olonne, France, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Yohan Bonnet)

Innovators gear up work on ‘green’ hydrogen plane with plans for nonstop 9-day trip around Earth

Runners pass a table with reusable silicone cups from Hiccup during the PNC Women Run the Cities race on Saturday, May 17, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

This runner was bothered by blizzard of disposable cups at races. She invented something better

Kamala Kadria, third from right, a woman from the Gadaba Indigenous community, points to a spot on a map they made as others look on in Hatipakna village, Koraput district, in India's eastern state of Odisha, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

In India, Indigenous women and their ‘dream maps’ seek to protect lands from climate change

Joel Caldwell, left, sits with his daughter, Land, third from right, along with Raya Scott, second from right, and Agnes Suárez while observing pollinators Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

How friends in South Carolina are restoring a wetland and bringing their neighborhood together

Rollbacks of U.S. environmental regulations and potential impact

The Gibson Power Plant operates Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Princeton, Ind. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Takeaways from AP examination showing benefits, costs of rules Trump EPA wants to change

A bulldozer moves coal Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Princeton, Ind. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Trump EPA rollbacks would weaken rules projected to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives

The Rockport Power Plant operates Wednesday, April 9, 2025, in Rockport, Ind. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

How AP calculated the costs and death toll of EPA rule rollbacks

The Warrick Power Plant operates Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Newburgh, Ind. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Planet-warming emissions dropped when companies had to report them. EPA wants to end that

Searching for fresh water

The bow of the Gaspee, a crew transport vessel, is seen as it approaches the Liftboat Robert platform and Expedition 501 in the North Atlantic, Saturday, July 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Scientists tap ‘secret’ fresh water under the ocean, raising hopes for a thirsty world

Expedition 501 member Verena Heuer looks out from the bridge of the Gaspee, a crew transport vessel, as it travels along Sakonnet River near Portsmouth, R.I., during the eight-hour trip to the Liftboat Robert platform in the North Atlantic, Saturday, July 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Takeaways from a hunt for ‘secret’ fresh water under the North Atlantic seabed

Climate story collaboration between RIT and AP

A cow, left, nudges dairy farmer Jeremy Brown as he inseminates a cow at Twin Birch Dairy on Friday, March 21, 2025, in Skaneateles, N.Y. (Caitlyn Daproza via AP)

Less farmland is going for organic crops as costs and other issues take root

An increasing number of American farmers are turning away from growing organic. America’s certified organic acreage fell almost 11% between 2019 and 2021.

Solar panels operate at Fox Run Vineyards and Seneca Lake, Friday, March 21, 2025, in Penn Yan, N.Y. (Natasha Kaiser via AP)

Vineyards in NY wine country push sustainability as they adapt to climate change

Renee Colon lifts coffee beans from the cooling tray of a roasting machine at Fuego Coffee Roasters' roasting facility in Rochester, N.Y., Friday, March 21, 2025. (Max Conway via AP)

Climate change is making coffee more expensive. Tariffs likely will too

Jasmin Singer, left, and Moore Rhys, right, pose for a portrait on Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Rochester, N.Y. (Toni Duncan via AP)

‘All kinds of nutty about climate.’ New York’s Rochester draws residents fleeing extreme weather

John Bateman, a wildlife professor, holds a spring peeper Friday, March 28, 2025, in Honeoye, N.Y. (AP Photo/Maryel Pryce)

Habitat loss and climate change make it tough to be an amphibian. Some humans are helping

Indigenous peoples: adapting to and combatting climate change

Berta Sanyi and Paula Hamadi, left, stand chest deep in water as they collect clams in a mangrove forest where only women are permitted to enter in Jayapura, Papua province, Indonesia on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Papuan women’s mangrove forest in Indonesia is increasingly threatened by development and pollution

An Ashaninka Indigenous man applies face paint during the annual celebration recognizing the Ashaninka territory in the Apiwtxa village, Acre state, Brazil, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

The Amazon’s Ashaninka tribe restored their territory. Now they aim to change the region

Mark Ojibway wades in shallow water looking for walleye during the spring spearfishing season at the Chippewa Flowage on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, Sunday, April 14, 2024, near Hayward, Wis. Walleye numbers in some lakes are dwindling due to warming waters, increasingly variable seasonal changes and lakeshore development. Losing the species would mean losing a food source for Ojibwe and other Indigenous people, a sovereign right to fish and a deep connection to tradition and nature. (AP Photo/John Locher)

As climate change alters lakes, tribes and conservationists fight for the future of spearfishing

Charles Alexie stands along the coastal erosion that has eaten away at the riverbanks on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, in Newtok, Alaska. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Climate change destroyed an Alaska village. Its residents are starting over in a new town

Luciane Mengual, 22, an Indigenous woman from the Wayuu community, poses with her baby at home in the Villa del Sur neighborhood, on the outskirts of Riohacha, Colombia, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Droughts, floods and economic uncertainty: Portraits of the Wayuu people in northern Colombia

CORRECTS LAST NAME TO ATENE FROM BLACK - Robert Atene, left, with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, supervises as a volunteer crew lifts a power line pole, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, on the Navajo Nation in Halchita, Utah. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

On Navajo Nation, a push to electrify more homes on the vast reservation

Miccosukee Tribal elder Michael Frank speaks to members of a task force that brings together federal, state, tribal and local agencies working to restore and protect the Florida Everglades, on a field visit to the Miccosukee Indian Reservation ahead of a task force meeting hosted by the Miccosukee Tribe, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

In Florida, the Miccosukee fight to protect the Everglades in the face of climate change

A boy looks out from the window of his house on Kabaena Island, Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Yusuf Wahil)

Global demand spurring Indonesia’s mining boom comes at a cost for many communities

Chasing hail storms to learn about the costly weather events

Joey Toniolo ducks from falling hail as he moves back to Northern Illinois University's Husky Hail Hunter vehicle during a Project ICECHIP operation Friday, June 6, 2025, in Morton, Texas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Ping, ping ping. Here’s what it’s like to drive into a big hailstorm in the name of science

Tony Illenden crouches outside Northern Illinois University's Husky Hail Hunter to scoop hail into a bag while in a hailstorm during a Project ICECHIP operation Friday, June 6, 2025, in Levelland, Texas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Crushing it. What do you do with 4,000 hailstones that you collect while chasing storms

The Project ICECHIP command vehicle drives toward an approaching rainstorm with a rain shaft during an operation Tuesday, June 3, 2025, near Tipton, Okla. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

PHOTO ESSAY: Behind-the-scenes moments as hail chasers learn about pounding and costly storms

Retired National Weather Service forecaster David Imy gestures to an approaching storm during a Project ICECHIP operation Tuesday, June 3, 2025, near Tipton, Okla. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Storm chasers drive into extreme weather to study hail that causes billions in annual damage

Extreme weather and its impact on humans

Danny Westergaard, left, cools of with water with pacing help from daughter Madison Westergaard as the sun rises during the Badwater 135 Ultramarathon, Tuesday, July 8, 2025, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. (AP Photo/John Locher)

The grueling 135-mile journey of a 66-year-old runner through one of the hottest places on Earth

Waste pickers Salmaa and Usmaan Shekh, right, search for recyclable materials during a heat wave at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Shekh and his family are among millions of people who scratch out a living searching through India's waste — and climate change is making a hazardous job more dangerous than ever. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

For India’s garbage pickers, a miserable and dangerous job made worse by extreme heat

Zariah Fields eats a popsicle, Thursday, June 20, 2024, at YMCA Camp Kern in Oregonia, Ohio. As the first heat wave of the season ripples across the U.S., summer camps are working to keep their children cool while still letting the kids enjoy being outside with nature. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Summer camps are for getting kids outdoors, but more frequent heat waves force changes

Margarita Salazar, 82, wipes the sweat off with a tissue inside her home amid high heat in Veracruz, Mexico, on June 16, 2024. Human-caused climate change intensified and made far more likely this month's killer heat with triple digit temperatures, a new flash study found Thursday, June 20. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Climate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer and 35 times more likely

Kali Prasad Shrestha, 57, stands near Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024, on the spot where his house once stood before it was swept away by floods in 2021.(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Cascading disasters push residents of a Nepalese valley to the brink

Isaac Barnes works with his honeybee hives Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in Williamsport, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Bees have some ways to cope with a warming Earth, but researchers fear for their future

Kunzang Angmo poses for a picture with her yak in Korzak village, Ladakh, India, Monday, July 7, 2025. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

High in India’s Himalayan mountains, yak herders struggle to survive a warming world

Kayla McDonald, right, uses a small electric fan to keep cool while taking bridal portraits with her sister, Jessica McDonald, left, before her wedding Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025, in Newtown, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Melting makeup, sweaty tuxes and overheating guests are shifting summer weddings

As temperatures dipped below freezing, sprinklers spray water over frost sensitive plants covering them with ice to insulate them from the cold at DeWar Nurseries Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Apopka, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

More winter weather leads to heavy snow, canceled flights and, in Florida, falling iguanas

This undated image provided by Washington State University in January 2026, made from a video taken from a grizzly bear's collar camera, shows two grizzly bears playing on the tundra in Alaska's North Slope. (Washington State University via AP)

Collar cams offer a bear’s eye view into the lives of grizzlies on Alaska’s desolate North Slope

A smart bidet sits in a bathroom at the McKechnie Family LIFE Home on the University Illinois campus in Champaign, Ill., Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. (Robin Scholz/The News-Gazette via AP, File)

Doctors share the best ways to get the most from a bidet

The Sierra Club Foundation's website sits open on a laptop in New York on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/James Pollard)

A former Sierra Club Foundation director sues over internal racism that he says hinders its mission

Austin Bradbury uses a chainsaw to remove a tree above a road Friday, Jan. 30, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

How bomb cyclones form and create dangerous conditions

Alex Taylor, 23, and his dog Daisy, make their way down a snowy hill in Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Erik Verduzco)

Snow hits the Carolinas as low temps compound power outage woes elsewhere from last weekend’s ice

Water swirls through the Georgia Power Co. dam on the Flint River north of Albany, Ga., Aug. 18, 2003. (AP Photo, Elliott Minor, File)

Georgia city warns against drinking tap water after Atlanta airport fuel spill

This photo provided by the New England Wildlife Center shows a tegu lizard which was found buried in snow in Providence, R.I., in late January 2025. (New England Wildlife Center via AP)

Freezing reptile dubbed ‘Lizard in a blizzard’ is rescued after being buried in Rhode Island snow

An aerial view shows mining waste flowing into a large pond at an inland location east of Grand Cape Mount, not far from the Mano River in Liberia, July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

PHOTO ESSAY: Liberia’s largest gold miner and community tensions

An aerial view shows the Bea Mountain's N'dablama mine site in Gold Camp, Liberia, July 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Takeaways from AP report on toxic spills from gold mining in Liberia

An aerial view shows a village whose residents are preparing to relocate because the river they depend on has been poisoned by mining waste, July 8, 2025, in Jikando, Liberia. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Liberia’s largest gold miner repeatedly spilled dangerous chemicals, records show

A bundled up Lucia Amato, of Argentina, sits on the shore while waiting for a friend in Miami Beach, Fla., Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026.A bundled up (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Florida braces for frost and possible snow flurries as winter storms hit other parts of the US

Tennessee National Guard members Taylor Osteen, left, and Antuwan Powell walk along an ice covered road as they work to remove trees Friday, Jan. 30, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Thousands face another arctic blast without power as East Coast preps for a storm

This photo provided by Melody Baran shows a rare waved albatross spotted off the coast of Point Piedras Blancas, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (Melody Baran/University of California, San Diego-Scripps Institution of Oceanography via AP)

A Galapagos albatross’ 3,000-mile detour to California puzzles scientists

Michigan sees record cougar reports in 2025, including some cubs

New Orleans City Council bans data centers for a year after concerns over potential development

South Dakota Mines geology professor Christopher Pellowski stands in the university's geology museum in Rapid City, S.D., Jan. 14, 2026. (Bart Pfankuch/South Dakota News Watch via AP)

Reserves of critical minerals driving mining interest in South Dakota

A grieving man reacts as relatives gather around the bodies of victims of a house collapse during a funeral procession in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Wahidullah Kakar)

Heavy rain in Afghanistan collapses a house, killing a mother and her 6 children

Flood waters cover the Chibuto-Chaimite road in Gaza province, Mozambique, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo)

Climate change worsened rains and floods which killed dozens in southern Africa, study shows

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin listens during the annual Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference on June 3, 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

EPA plan would begin rolling back ‘good neighbor’ rule on downwind pollution from smokestacks

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