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Shock of deadly floods is a reminder of Appalachia’s risk from violent storms in a warming climate
Hurricane Helene dumped heavy rain on a mountainous region hundreds of miles away from the coast. Some residents who live in the Appalachian Mountains were surprised they faced such a severe threat from flooding — and climate change is making that threat worse.
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Hurricanes like Helene are deadly when they strike and keep killing for years to come
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In India, warming climate pressures scientists to keep developing tougher seeds
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Offering a dose of healing, curious beluga whales frolic in a warming Hudson Bay
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Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South
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Indigenous peoples: adapting to and combatting climate change
The Amazon’s Ashaninka tribe restored their territory. Now they aim to change the region
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As climate change alters lakes, tribes and conservationists fight for the future of spearfishing
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Behind Upper Midwest tribal spearfishing is a long and violent history of denied treaty rights
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More Indigenous youth are learning to spearfish, a connection to ancestors and the land
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Spring rains destroyed a harvest important to the Oneida people. Farmers are working to adapt
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For at least a decade Quinault Nation has tried to escape the rising Pacific. Time is running out
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Climate and the Arctic
As warming threatens polar bear tourism, a Canadian town adapts and thrives
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In the gateway to the Arctic, fat, ice and polar bears are crucial. All three are in trouble
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How Churchill embraces its title as polar bear capital of the world
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Extreme weather and its impact on humans
Runners are used to toughing it out. A warming climate can make that deadly
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Hotter summers are making high school football a fatal game for some players
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Sweaty corn is making it even more humid
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For India’s garbage pickers, a miserable and dangerous job made worse by extreme heat
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Summer camps are for getting kids outdoors, but more frequent heat waves force changes
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How does heat kill? It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart
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Climate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer and 35 times more likely
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In Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, a hidden underground world is under threat by the Maya Train
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In Zimbabwe, schoolchildren face threats from animals. Now they are learning how to spot the dangers
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The Galapagos Islands and many of their unique creatures are at risk from warming waters
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In Indonesia, women ranger teams go on patrol to slow deforestation
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Recovery of Brazil’s Spix’s macaw, popularized in animated ‘Rio’ films, threatened by climate change
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Resigned to a fate of constant displacement, India’s river islanders return home in between floods
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Gulf oil spill: Workers left behind
Once praised, settlement to help sickened BP oil spill workers leaves most with nearly nothing
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Takeaways from AP’s story on the BP oil spill medical settlement’s shortcomings
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BP defeated thousands of suits by sick Gulf spill cleanup workers. But not one by a boat captain
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Chemical smoke spewing from a Georgia factory is projected to spread toward Atlanta as winds shift
Authorities say heavy smoke is causing low visibility along Interstate 20 east of Atlanta from chemicals spewing from a beleaguered chlorine facility.
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Tribes celebrate the end of the largest dam removal project in US history
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history has been completed near the California-Oregon border.
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Maui Fire to release cause report on deadly US wildfire
The Maui Fire Department is expected to give its official explanation on exactly how the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century was sparked last year.
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Environmental group tries to rebuild sinking coastline with recycled oysters
A Native American tribe along the Louisiana coast is taking action to preserve their disappearing land and their way of life.
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EU offers to delay curbs on forest products after an outcry from trade partners
The European Union is offering to delay by a year the introduction of new rules that would outlaw the sale of products that come from forests.
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An anti-whaling activist will stay in detention in Greenland while Japan seeks extradition
A Greenland court has ruled that anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson must remain in detention until Oct. 23 while Denmark’s Justice Ministry decides whether to approve his extradition to Japan.
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Nepalese grapple with loss after floods kill over 200 people
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Bishworaj Khadka, a cook in Lalitpur, could hear the Nakhu River becoming louder and louder as he sat with his wife and daughter-in-law in their house situated at the river’s edge.
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2 dead and thousands evacuated as a typhoon approaches Taiwan
An approaching typhoon bringing strong winds and torrential rainfall to Taiwan has killed two people and injured dozens over the past few days and forced thousands to evacuate from low-lying or mountainous areas.
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Online voting in Alaska’s Fat Bear Week contest starts after an attack killed 1 contestant
Voting starts in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. Starting Wednesday, viewers will be able to pick their favorite among a dozen brown bears fattened up to survive the winter.
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Helene’s flooding swept away 11 workers at a Tennessee factory. Now the state is investigating
Tennessee state authorities are investigating the company that owns a plastics factory where 11 workers were swept away by cataclysmic flooding unleashed by Hurricane Helene.
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Push to map Great Lakes bottom gains momentum amid promises effort will help fishing and shipping
What lies beneath the Great Lakes’ waves is largely unknown, but there’s a new push to learn more about thousands of shipwrecks, underwater infrastructure and the impacts of climate change on the bottom of the world’s largest freshwater system.
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Southerners stay in touch the old-fashioned way after Helene cuts roads, power, phones
Hurricane Helene has left millions without electricity and phone service across Southeast in the six days since making landfall, and now many people are relying on old-fashioned ways of communicating.
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Countries, businesses and trade officials urge EU to rethink deforestation regulation
A growing number of governments, international trade organizations and businesses are urging the European Union to reconsider a deforestation regulation set to take effect in December.
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Hurricane Helene’s victims include first responders who died helping others
Hurricane Helene killed scores of people when it struck Florida late last week and then plowed through the Southeast as one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history.
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Historic ship could soon become the world’s largest artificial reef
A historic ocean liner that ferried immigrants, Hollywood stars and heads of state may soon find its final resting place at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
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As heat rises, California kids are sweltering in schools with no air conditioning
In her fifth grade class in a Los Angeles school, on a day when outdoor temperatures reached 116 degrees, the heat gave Lilian China headache.
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Days after Hurricane Helene, a powerless mess remains in the Southeast
Power is still out for well over 1 million people in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina five days after Hurricane Helene tore down trees and destroyed much of the electric grid.
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Wildfires in California have burned 1 million acres so far this year. Heat wave poses more risk
Spiking temperatures added to the challenges facing firefighters struggling to contain a stubborn Southern California wildfire, as the total acres burned in the state this year surpassed 1 million.
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New Jersey offshore wind farm clears big federal hurdle amid environmental concerns
The federal government has given a key approval to an offshore wind farm in New Jersey. The decision comes even as residents in the coastal town where its power cable would come ashore worry that it could go through underground toxic waste.
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Swiss glaciers are receding again after 2 punishing years and despite a good start to 2024
Experts say the volume of Switzerland’s glaciers shrank again this summer and compounded the negative impact of climate change after a devastating two-year run that depleted the ice by more than 10%.
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