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  • People tend to vegetables growing in a field as emission rises from cooling towers at a coal-fired power station in Tongling, Anhui province, China, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. China’s economy expanded at its weakest pace since 2009, according to figures Monday, with gross domestic product rising 6.4 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEnvironment

    COP29 reveals world’s most polluting states and provinces are all in China—except for one U.S. exception

    By Seth Borenstein, Sibi Arasu, and others
  • A hand-pulled rickshaw moves through thick smoke caused by the burning of coal ovens in an alley in Kolkata, India, on October 28, 2024. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Environment

    Carbon emissions increase again in 2024 as Earth races toward 1.5 degree warming threshold

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Resident Kerry Flynn, right, and a friend walk past a damaged home and the displaced roof of their 55+ mobile home community’s tiki hut after the passage of Hurricane Milton, on Manasota Key, in Englewood, Fla., Oct. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)Finance

    Hurricanes Helene and Milton are both likely to cost more than $50 billion, joining ranks of priciest disasters

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • This GOES-16 GeoColor satellite image taken at 11:46 a.m. EDT and provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows Hurricane Milton in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (NOAA via AP)Environment

    Here’s what made Hurricane Milton so intense and unusual

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • Dustin Holmes, second from right, holds hands with his girlfriend, Hailey Morgan, while returning to their flooded home with her children Aria Skye Hall, 7, right, and Kyle Ross, 4, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.Environment

    Scientists confront conspiracy theorists, say it’s impossible to control hurricanes

    By Melina Walling, Seth Borenstein, and others
  • woman kayaks on flooded streetEnvironment

    More than 40 trillion gallons of rain flooded the South over the past week

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Anna, 7, cools off under a misting fountain on a hot afternoon during the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 29, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)Environment

    Summer 2024 officially sweltered to Earth’s hottest on record

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • A woman sifts through a mountain of plastic wasteEnvironment

    The amount of plastic waste produced each year could fill NYC’s Central Park and reach as high as the Empire State Building

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 26: Athletes sail in a boat along the river Seine as rain starts at the start of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on July 26, 2024. (Photo by Aytac Unal/Anadolu via Getty Images)Environment

    Paris ‘flipped the coin’ and took a €1.4 billion gamble against climate change with its plan for the Olympics—and lost

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A man pours cold water onto his head to cool off on a sweltering hot day in the Mediterranean Sea in Beirut, Lebanon, July 16, 2023. As temperatures and humidity soar outside, what’s happening inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)Health

    How extreme heat can turn deadly: It confuses your brain, shuts down your organs, and overworks your heart

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • Jorge Moreno, a worker, drinks flavored water to cope with the heat wave during his workday at a construction site in Veracruz, Mexico, on June 17, 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)Environment

    Climate change caused by fossil fuels made killer heat wave in U.S. and Mexico 2.5 degrees hotter and 35 times more likely, scientists say

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • Simon StiellEnvironment

    Humanity has just 2 years ‘to save the world,’ UN climate chief says

    By Seth Borenstein, Jamey Keaten, and others
  • T.J. RaulsEnvironment

    ‘Cicada-geddon’ will hit America for first time since 1803, expert says: ‘Trillions of these amazing living organisms [coming] out of the Earth’

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, attends an interview with The Associated Press in his office at the State Department, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, in Washington. Kerry feels he’s going out on a high note as he retires from leading U.S. efforts in international negotiations to confront ever-worsening climate change. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Environment

    As John Kerry steps down from climate role, he sees a ‘vast change in the marketplace’

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Residents of a riverside community carry food and containers of drinking water from an aid distribution due to the ongoing drought in Careiro da Varzea, Amazonas state, Brazil, Oct. 24, 2023. Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, the European climate agency said Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. (AP Photo /Edmar Barros, File)Environment

    After the hottest year ever, January is on track to be so warm that for the first time a 12-month period will exceed the 1.5-degree Paris Accords threshold

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press