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FILE - A group of men and a woman carry bananas and fish from the port, in Leticia, Colombia, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)
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UN talks end in Rome with nations backing $200 billion a year plan to protect nature

Read full article: UN talks end in Rome with nations backing $200 billion a year plan to protect nature

Global negotiators concluded an extended session of the United Nations biodiversity conference, COP16, with key commitments on funds needed and the institutions through which the funds will be channeled to protect the world’s biodiversity.

Linda Johnson carefully walks on ice caused by a water main break and cold winter temperatures outside her church in Frisco, Texas, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts

Read full article: Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts

Hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees on probationary status have been fired, lawmakers and weather experts say.

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FILE - EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks at the East Palestine Fire Department in East Palestine, Ohio, Feb. 3, 2025. (Rebecca Droke/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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EPA backtracks on Trump comment about cutting staff by 65% but says major spending cuts are coming

Read full article: EPA backtracks on Trump comment about cutting staff by 65% but says major spending cuts are coming

Despite a comment by President Donald Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency does not plan to reduce its staff by 65%, but major budget cuts are likely.

Larbi El Ghazouani, a 55-year-old farmer, tends to sheep he has bred in anticipation of Eid Al-Adha, an annual celebration in which Muslims sacrifice and feast on livestock in Ouled Slama, Morocco on February 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Sam Metz)
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Morocco urges people to not buy sheep for Eid al-Adha celebrations

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With Morocco’s sheep herds dwindling at an alarming rate, King Mohammed VI made a rare break with tradition by urging families to forgo buying sheep to sacrifice during the upcoming Eid Al-Adha.

FILE - The Jeffrey Energy Center coal-fired power plant operates near Emmett, Kan., Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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Scientists scorn EPA push to say climate change isn't a danger, say just look around at the world

Read full article: Scientists scorn EPA push to say climate change isn't a danger, say just look around at the world

As President Donald Trump's administration looks to reverse a cornerstone finding that climate change endangers human health and welfare, scientists say they need to look around because it’s obvious how bad global warming is and how its getting worse.

FILE - Dakota Access pipeline protesters defy law enforcement officers who are trying to force them from a camp on private land in the path of pipeline construction, Oct. 27, 2016, near Cannon Ball, N.D. (AP Photo/James MacPherson, File)
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Trial begins in $300M lawsuit against Greenpeace over North Dakota pipeline protests

Read full article: Trial begins in $300M lawsuit against Greenpeace over North Dakota pipeline protests

An attorney for a Texas pipeline company says he will show at trial that various Greenpeace entities coordinated delays and disruptions of a controversial oil pipeline's construction in North Dakota and defamed the company to its lenders.

FILE - EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks at the East Palestine Fire Department in East Palestine, Ohio, Feb. 3, 2025. (Rebecca Droke/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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EPA head urges Trump to reconsider scientific finding that underpins climate action, AP sources say

Read full article: EPA head urges Trump to reconsider scientific finding that underpins climate action, AP sources say

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has privately urged the Trump administration to reconsider a scientific finding that's long been the central basis for U.S. action against climate change.

FILE - Two surfers walk with their boards on the beach of the Atlantic Ocean in Sines, Portugal, April 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)
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Computer simulations show nightmare Atlantic current shutdown less likely this century

Read full article: Computer simulations show nightmare Atlantic current shutdown less likely this century

A new study reassures people that the nightmare disaster movie scenario of Atlantic Ocean currents collapsing, with weather running amok putting Europe in a deep freeze, looks unlikely this century thanks to a rescue from around Antarctica.

FILE - A sign at a BP petrol station in London, Feb. 7, 2023. British energy giant BP has confirmed it is to slash spending on green ventures and up its oil and gas production. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
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BP to slash spending on net zero ventures as it focuses on oil and gas again

Read full article: BP to slash spending on net zero ventures as it focuses on oil and gas again

British energy company BP has confirmed it is to slash spending on green ventures and up its oil and gas production.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright talks with reporters at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History before a tour of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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US energy secretary touts nuclear power as tech sector's thirst for electricity grows

Read full article: US energy secretary touts nuclear power as tech sector's thirst for electricity grows

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright says it's critical that the nation be out in front when it comes to artificial intelligence.

North Carolina Rep. John Bell, R-Wayne, far right, speaks while, from left to right, Reps. Dudley Greene, R-Avery; Karl Gillespie, R-Macon; and Rep. Jennifer Balkcom, R-Henderson, listen after a Hurricane Helene relief bill was considered by a House committee in the Legislative Office Building in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)
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Another $500M for Hurricane Helene relief in North Carolina passes key hurdle

Read full article: Another $500M for Hurricane Helene relief in North Carolina passes key hurdle

Another $500 million would be spent toward Hurricane Helene recovery efforts in North Carolina in legislation approved unanimously by the state House.

FILE - An activist covered in mud poses with a sign that reads Vale assassin during a demonstration in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Feb. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano, File)
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In Brazil, mining giant Vale is sued over metal contamination found in Indigenous peoples

Read full article: In Brazil, mining giant Vale is sued over metal contamination found in Indigenous peoples

Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is suing the giant mining company Vale, the Brazilian government and the Amazon state of Para over heavy metal contamination found in the bodies of Xikrin Indigenous people.

FILE - The entrance to Universal Studios in Universal City, California, Aug. 23, 2016. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
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Woman injured on Harry Potter theme park ride in California is awarded $7.25 million

Read full article: Woman injured on Harry Potter theme park ride in California is awarded $7.25 million

A 74-year-old Arizona woman has been awarded $7.25 million by a jury for a spine injury she suffered in a fall while exiting the Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride at Universal Studios Hollywood.

An underwater drone passes inside the seawater during a demonstration at a Marina in the southern resort of Ayia Napa, Cyprus, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
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A swarm of small drones may help artificial reefs attract sea life

Read full article: A swarm of small drones may help artificial reefs attract sea life

A swarm of small submersibles will be used to monitor and provide data on offshore artificial reefs that are intended to attract marine life in otherwise barren sections of sea.

FILE - Wind turbines operate as the sun rises at the Klettwitz Nord solar energy park near Klettwitz near Klettwitz, Germany, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
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Germany will likely continue its leadership on climate action. But expect a change in tone

Read full article: Germany will likely continue its leadership on climate action. But expect a change in tone

Germany has long been considered to have relatively ambitious climate goals and it’s likely that combatting climate change will remain a priority.

FILE - Protesters against the Dakota Access oil pipeline congregate, Nov. 21, 2016, on a long-closed bridge on a state highway near Cannon Ball., N.D. near their camp in southern North Dakota. (AP Photo/James MacPherson, File)
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Greenpeace says a pipeline company's lawsuit threatens the organization's future

Read full article: Greenpeace says a pipeline company's lawsuit threatens the organization's future

A Texas pipeline company has sued Greenpeace accusing the organization of defamation, disruptions and attacks during protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

An American flag is suspended from a charred bunny sculpture at the Bunny Museum, which was destroyed by the Eaton Fire in January, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

California governor asks Congress for nearly $40 billion for Los Angeles wildfire relief

Read full article: California governor asks Congress for nearly $40 billion for Los Angeles wildfire relief

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked Congress to approve nearly $40 billion in aid to help the Los Angeles area recover from January’s devastating wildfires.

Visitors take in a view of Bridalveil Fall Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, in Yosemite National Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)

Fired employees fear beloved Yosemite National Park will lose its luster

Read full article: Fired employees fear beloved Yosemite National Park will lose its luster

Yosemite National Park employees who recently were fired by the U.S. government worry cuts will affect the experience of visitors and the welfare of wildlife that thrive in the popular vacation destination located in California’s Sierra Nevada.

Eaton Fire evacuees Ceiba Phillips, 11, right, adjusts his mask as he and his mother, Alyson Granaderos, stand next to what remains of their in-law suite during Ceiba's first visit to their home since the fire in Altadena, Calif., Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Parents and kids navigate talks of loss and tragedy as they return home after LA area fires

Read full article: Parents and kids navigate talks of loss and tragedy as they return home after LA area fires

When 11-year-old Ceiba Phillips returned to his Southern California neighborhood a month after the devastating Eaton fire, he couldn’t believe his eyes.

FILE - Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley talks during a news conference at HarborUCLA Medical Center in the West Carson area of Los Angeles on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

LA mayor dismisses fire chief over response to most destructive wildfire in city history last month

Read full article: LA mayor dismisses fire chief over response to most destructive wildfire in city history last month

Six weeks after devastating wildfires, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ousted the city’s fire chief amid a public rift over preparations for the fires and finger-pointing between the chief and City Hall.

President Donald speaks at the Republican Governors Association meeting at the National Building Museum in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (Pool via AP)

National Park Service restores some jobs of fired employees, pledges to hire 7,700 seasonal workers

Read full article: National Park Service restores some jobs of fired employees, pledges to hire 7,700 seasonal workers

The Trump administration is restoring jobs for dozens of fired National Park Service employees and hiring nearly 3,000 additional seasonal workers, following an uproar over an aggressive plan to downsize the agency.

FILE - U.S. Forest Service crew members put tree branches into a wood chipper as they prepare the area for a prescribed burn in the Tahoe National Forest, June 6, 2023, near Downieville, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vsquez, File)

How Trump's mass layoffs raise the risk of wildfires in the US West, according to fired workers

Read full article: How Trump's mass layoffs raise the risk of wildfires in the US West, according to fired workers

The termination letters that ended the careers of thousands of U.S. Forest Service employees mean fewer people and less resources will be available to help prevent and fight wildfires.