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    A close-up of Bill Gates' face

    Bill Gates says a ‘doomsday’ outlook on climate is driving people to focus on the wrong things

    “If given a choice between eradicating malaria and a tenth of a degree increase in warming, I’ll let the temperature go up,” Gates said.

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    October 28, 2025

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    First-of-its-kind study finds ‘secret fresh water’ that may stretch from New Jersey to Maine

    By Calvin Woodward, Carolyn Kaster, Rodrique Ngowi and The Associated Press
    September 7, 2025
    Donald Trump
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    Connecticut, Rhode Island, reeling wind giant Orsted sue Trump administration for canceling nearly finished offshore projects

    By Jennifer McDermott and The Associated Press
    September 5, 2025
    Wildfires
    Environment

    What caused the historic LA wildfire? The federal government accuses Southern California Edison

    By Jaimie Ding and The Associated Press
    September 5, 2025
    Canal jumper
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    Carbon storage challenged as climate change silver bullet by massive underground study

    By Tammy Webber and The Associated Press
    September 5, 2025
    Flood
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    One out of every 4 homes is at ‘severe or extreme’ climate risk, study says

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    September 3, 2025
    Gray wolves
    Environment

    Cattle ranchers talk to wolves by blasting AC/DC’s ‘Thunderstruck’ or dialogue from movies: ‘I am not putting up with this anymore!’

    By Cedar Attanasio and The Associated Press
    August 31, 2025
    With the shuttered Homer City coal plant in the background, at the Lucerne Reclamation project site in Pennsylvania, a worker moves coal refuse to be prepared for transport to be cleaned on June 12, 2024. The soil, contaminated by coal refuse, is cleaned and returned to the land where it is encased and covered with top soil and planted as a meadow.
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    How the AI data center boom is breathing new life into transforming dirty, old coal plants

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    August 31, 2025
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    California crowed that it ‘finally beat big oil’ 2 years ago. Regulators just halted the landmark penalty payments

    By Sophie Austin and The Associated Press
    August 30, 2025
    New Mexico
    Environment

    ‘It’s so dystopian. It’s sad’: The Rio Grande River is so dry that Texas, Colorado and New Mexico are squabbling over groundwater

    By Susan Montoya Bryan, Morgan Lee and The Associated Press
    August 30, 2025
    Donald Trump
    Environment

    Trump breaks wind funding again, canceling $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore projects

    By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
    August 29, 2025
    EVs
    Environment

    Oregon is trying to plug a $300 million hole in its transportation budget with a pay-per-mile fee for electric vehicle owners

    By Claire Rush and The Associated Press
    August 29, 2025
    Florida python
    Environment

    Florida is deploying robot rabbit lures that cost $4,000 apiece in a desperate push to solve the Everglades’ python problem

    By Curt Anderson, Cody Jackson and The Associated Press
    August 28, 2025
    A german shepherd and a FEMA worker search for damage and victims in the wake of Hurricane Helen. They walk next to a pile of branches and debris.
    Environment

    Trump critics inside FEMA put on indefinite leave after blasting cuts in dissent letter

    By Gabriela Aoun Angueira and The Associated Press
    August 27, 2025
    Colorado River
    Environment

    ‘It’s getting pretty scary’: The Colorado River, 40 million Americans, 7 states and no plan for how to manage inevitable decline

    By Dorany Pineda and The Associated Press
    August 27, 2025
    Haboob
    Environment

    America gripped by towering haboobs as dust storms take Southwest by storm

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    August 27, 2025
    Nicolle Ritchie peels corn facing away from the camera in the midst of a corn field.
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    ‘Like the corn’s never getting a break. It’s just hot all the time’: How America’s farmers conquered climate change for a ‘monster’ harvest

    By Melina Walling, Joshua A. Bickel and The Associated Press
    August 25, 2025
    Heat wave
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    It’s so hot in the western U.S. that some people are ‘wobbling’ and collapsing to the ground as they walk outside

    By Cedar Attanasio and The Associated Press
    August 24, 2025
    Shark
    Environment

    Climate change means more great white sharks in the waters of New England every summer

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
    August 24, 2025
    Chevron’s president explains how the company transformed the historically boom-and-bust shale business into a steadily profitable enterprise
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    Chevron’s president explains how the company transformed the historically boom-and-bust shale business into a steadily profitable enterprise

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    August 24, 2025
    The rendering of Meta's planned data center complex in Richland Parish shows a massive arrive of facilities to power the AI boom.
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    Meta is sinking $10 billion into rural Louisiana to build the home of its wildest AI aspirations, setting the template for the nation’s grid buildout

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    August 24, 2025
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    Calling the Post Office’s switch to EVs a ‘textbook example of waste,’ GOP wants to waste millions of dollars already spent on transition

    By Susan Haigh and The Associated Press
    August 18, 2025
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    Environment

    Instead of a $50,000 solar panel on your roof, how about a $2,000 one small enough to fit on your deck? ‘We thought absolutely, let’s do this right away’

    By Isabella O'Malley and The Associated Press
    August 15, 2025
    Oil and fuel prices hang in the balance as Trump and Putin meet to broker peace
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    Oil and fuel prices hang in the balance as Trump and Putin meet to broker peace

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    August 15, 2025
    Dogs
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    Your dog is part of the climate change problem: ‘I can adopt 100 bunnies that will not be close to the emissions of a dog, because my dog is a carnivore’

    By Caleigh Wells and The Associated Press
    August 14, 2025
    Crater of Diamonds State Park
    Environment

    31-year-old New Yorker who found a 2-karat diamond in a volcanic crater is going to wear it for an engagement ring

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    August 14, 2025
    Spain wildfire
    Environment

    Much of Greece, Spain and Portugal is on fire as Southern Europe braces for wildfire season

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    August 14, 2025
    Ashton Dolce
    Environment

    ‘I was just dumbfounded’: Trump kicks 15 high school students out of FEMA Youth Preparedness Council

    By Gabriela Aoun Angueira and The Associated Press
    August 13, 2025
    Black bear
    Environment

    Florida allows first black bear hunt in a decade

    By Curt Anderson and The Associated Press
    August 13, 2025
    James Litinsky, Chairman and CEO, MP Materials
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    How deals with Apple and Trump’s Pentagon turned rare earth miner MP Materials into a red-hot stock

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    August 12, 2025
    Southeast Asia’s cities at ‘high risk’ of flooding and heatwaves, thanks to climate change
    Environment

    Southeast Asia’s cities at ‘high risk’ of flooding and heatwaves, thanks to climate change

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    August 12, 2025

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