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FILE - People cool off in the water on a hot and sunny day at the beach in Barcelona, Spain, July 15, 2022. Earths fever persisted last year, not quite spiking to a record high but still in the top five or six warmest on record, government agencies reported Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

2022 was fifth or sixth warmest on record as Earth heats up

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Government science teams say that 2022 didn't quite set a record for heat, but it was in the top five or six warmest on record depending on who's doing the measuring.

G-7 ministers on climate, energy and environment pose for a photo during its photo session in Sapporo, northern Japan, Saturday, April 15, 2023. Front row, from left are Vannia Gava, Italy's Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Ecological Transition, EU Oceans and Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius, EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson, Italy's Environment Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, Japan's Environment Minister Akihiro Nishimura, Japan's Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, Germany's Environment Minister Steffi Lemke, Canada's Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada's Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and Germany's Economy and Climate Minister Patrick Graichen. Back row, from left are U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, France's Energy Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher, France's Ecological Transition Minister Christophe Bechu, Britain's Environment Secretary Therese Coffey and Britain's Energy Secretary Grant Shapps. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

G7 vows to step up moves to renewable energy, zero carbon

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Energy and environment ministers of the Group of Seven wealthy nations have vowed to work to hasten the shift toward cleaner, renewable energy, but set no timetable for phasing out coal-fired power plants.

U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the U.S. Consulate General after the G-7 ministers' meeting on climate, energy and environment in Sapporo, northern Japan, Sunday, April 16, 2023. So much has been invested in clean energy that there can be no rolling back of moves to end carbon emissions, though much more needs to be done much faster to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, U.S. Presidential Envoy John Kerry said Sunday. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Climate envoy Kerry: No rolling back clean energy transition

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U.S. envoy on climate change John Kerry says so much has been invested in clean energy that there can be no rolling back of moves to end carbon emissions.

FILE - Farmer Barry Evans drops dusty soil from a cotton crop he shredded and planted over with wheat, Oct. 3, 2022, in Kress, Texas. A new study finds that climate change is making droughts faster and more furious and especially one fast-moving kind of drought that can take farmers by surprise. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

As Earth warms, more 'flash droughts' suck soil, plants dry

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A new study finds that climate change is making droughts faster and more furious — and especially one fast-moving kind of drought that can take farmers by surprise.

OUR ENVIRONMENT

FILE - Ken Honeycutt demonstrates charging his Kia Soul electric vehicle in San Lorenzo, Calif., Nov. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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House Republicans target clean energy tax credits and pollution rules in budget proposal

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House Republicans have proposed cutting billions of dollars in funding for Biden-era climate and environmental programs, including clean energy tax credits.

FILE - Protesters march during a demonstration in opposition to a new police training center on Nov. 13, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
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Defendants in Georgia 'Cop City' case say they are in limbo as trial delays continue

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It has been more than a year and a half since authorities in Georgia indicted 61 activists on racketeering charges in connection with protests against an Atlanta-area police training facility that critics derisively call “Cop City.”.

FILE - Hikers look up at a fast moving storm as it makes its way through Zion National Park outside of Springdale, Utah, July 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Sandy Huffaker, File)
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A Republican push to sell public lands in the West is reigniting a political fight

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Congressional Republicans say their plan to sell or transfer 460,000 acres of public land will generate revenue and offer space to build houses in Western cities.

FILE - The CHS oil refinery is silhouetted against the setting sun, Sept. 28, 2024, in McPherson, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, file)
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15 states sue over Trump's move to fast-track oil and gas projects via his 'energy emergency' order

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A coalition of 15 states is suing over President Donald Trump’s efforts to fast-track energy-related projects, saying the administration is bypassing environmental protection laws and threatening endangered species, critical habitat and cultural resources.

FILE - Respiratory therapist Vernon Johnson, left, conducts a pulmonary test at the Center for Asbestos Related Disease, Thursday, April 4, 2024, in Libby, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
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Asbestos clinic forced to close in Montana town where thousands have been sickened by dust

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An asbestos screening clinic in a Montana town where thousands have been sickened dust from a nearby mine has been shuttered by local authorities.

FILE - A neighborhood still flooded from Hurricane Milton prepares to have the FEMA Disaster Recover Center covert to a polling location for the general election on Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, in Ridge Manor, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson, File)

US will stop tracking the costs of extreme weather fueled by climate change

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it will no longer track the cost of weather disasters, including floods, heat waves, wildfires and more.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, receives Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani during his official visit to Turkey, in Ankara on Thursday, May 8, 2025. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye /Pool Photo via AP,)

Turkey and Iraq reaffirm commitment to work against Kurdish militants and other security threats

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Turkey's president and Iraq's prime minister reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate against security threats, including against Kurdish militants based on Iraqi territory.

FILE - Two churches, one Catholic and one Baptist are flooded by the Kentucky River in Lockport, Ky., Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Deadly April rainfall in US South and Midwest was intensified by climate change, scientists say

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Human-caused climate change intensified deadly rainfall in Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and other states in early April and made it more likely to occur.

FILE - Smoke rises above homes as a grass fire burns near Interstate 580 in Oakland, Calif., Friday, Oct. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Smoke from climate-fueled wildfires contributed to thousands of US deaths over 15 years, study says

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A new study out in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment finds that wildfires fueled by climate change are linked to as many as thousands of annual deaths and billions of dollars in economic burden.

FILE - Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Oct. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House Republicans push to sell hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in the West

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House Republicans have added a provision to their sweeping tax cut package that would authorize the sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah.

In this photo provided by South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, South Korean Industry Minister Ahn Duk-geun, right, speaks to reporters in Prague, Czech Republic, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy via AP)

South Korea remains confident about $18b nuclear deal put on hold by Czech court

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South Korean officials have downplayed a Czech court’s decision to put on hold an $18 billion project for South Korea to build two nuclear reactors in the country.

In this image made from video, a Powelliphanta augusta snail lays an egg from it's neck at the Hokitika Snail Housing facility, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, in Hokitika, New Zealand. (Lisa Flanagan/New Zealand Department of Conservation via AP)
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A rare New Zealand snail is filmed for the first time laying an egg from its neck

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The sight of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured on camera for the first time.

FILE - A baby manatee swimming beside its mother comes to the surface to breathe, at Manatee Lagoon, in Riviera Beach, Fla., Jan. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Democratic senators press Trump administration on how it will protect endangered species

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Three Democratic U.S. senators are asking the Trump administration to explain how it analyzed a proposed rule to eliminate habitat protections for endangered and threatened species — and whether industry had a hand in drafting it.

FILE - The nearly $3 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project along the Mississippi River, intended to stave off coastal land loss in southeastern Louisiana, is seen during a flyover with the environmental coalition group Restore the Mississippi River Delta, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Brook)

A massive coastal restoration project is in peril amid claims Louisiana concealed a critical report

Read full article: A massive coastal restoration project is in peril amid claims Louisiana concealed a critical report

An ambitious project to restore a rapidly vanishing stretch of Louisiana coast devastated by the 2010 Gulf oil spill has been thrown deeper into disarray amid claims by Gov. Jeff Landry that his predecessor concealed an unfavorable study that could imperil the $3 billion effort.