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Krill fishery in Antarctica shut down after record catch triggers unprecedented early closure

Associated Press 5 Aug 2025

In Ecuador, environmentalists worry Noboa is unwinding nation’s green reputation

Associated Press 4 Aug 2025

Ethiopia’s national tree campaign underway with aim to plant 700 million seedlings in one day

Associated Press 31 Jul 2025

Trump Environmental Protection Agency moves to repeal finding that allows climate regulation

Associated Press 29 Jul 2025

To host UN climate talks, Brazil chose one of its poorer cities. That’s no accident

Associated Press 28 Jul 2025

Peru seizes record 4-ton mercury shipment in fight against illegal gold mining

Associated Press 25 Jul 2025

Uruguay confronts a powerful new threat to its palm trees: A tiny red bug

Associated Press 24 Jul 2025

UN says booming solar, wind and other green energy hits global tipping point for even lower costs

Associated Press 22 Jul 2025

Bees have some ways to cope with a warming Earth, but researchers fear for their future

Associated Press 21 Jul 2025
A bag of soil, slightly radioactive but decontaminated one from Fukushima, is delivered to the Japanese prime minister's office to be reused in the garden, in Tokyo, Japan, Saturday, July 19, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP)

Slightly radioactive Fukushima soil being used at Japanese prime minister’s office to prove safety

Associated Press 21 Jul 2025
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, File)

Louisiana cancels $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by oil spill settlement

Associated Press 18 Jul 2025
Palmeiras' Vitor Roque sits on the side of the pitch in a cooling mist after being substituted during the Club World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Palmeiras and Botafogo in Philadelphia, Sunday, June 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

How climate change could force FIFA to rethink the World Cup calendar

Associated Press 17 Jul 2025

Native American teens kayak major US river to celebrate removal of dams and return of salmon

Associated Press 15 Jul 2025
Tourist with umbrellas wait outside the Acropolis of Athens, on Monday , July 7, 2025 while authorities in Greece have imposed mandatory work stoppages in parts of the country where temperatures are expected to exceed 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece imposes work breaks as a heat wave grips the country

Associated Press 7 Jul 2025
In this photo released by Agents Rurals de Catalunya, uncontrolled fire rages across the grasslands in the Segarra region, in the rural province of Lleida, Spain, Tuesday, July 1, 2025. (AP Photo/ Agents Rurals de Catalunya, HO)

Wildfire kills 2 people in Spain as parts of Europe bake in heat wave

Associated Press 2 Jul 2025

Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites

Associated Press 1 Jul 2025
The abandoned village of Samjung, with ancient caves carved in the cliffs in the background, is seen in the Mustang region, 462 kilometers west of Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Ancient Himalayan village relocates as climate shifts reshape daily life

Associated Press 1 Jul 2025

NOAA delays the cutoff of key satellite data for hurricane forecasting

Associated Press 30 Jun 2025
Tourists try to protect themselves from the sun as they line up to enter at the St. Mark Basilica in Venice, Italy, Friday, June 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Scorching temperatures grip Europe, putting regions on high alert

Associated Press 30 Jun 2025
Banner image of a humpback whale breaching in Iceland, by Giles Laurent via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Commuter traffic stops for whales on Australia’s humpback highway

Associated Press 27 Jun 2025
Local residents look to the Swat River, which is overflowing due to pre-monsoon heavy rains in the area, on the outskirts of Mingora, the main town of Pakistan's Swat Valley, Friday, June 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Sherin Zada)

Flash floods in Pakistan kill 8 and 58 are rescued after deluge swept away dozens

Associated Press 27 Jun 2025

Colombian waste pickers inundate iconic Bogota square with plastic bottles to protest falling wages

Associated Press 26 Jun 2025

Switzerland’s ebbing glaciers show a new, strange phenomenon: holes reminiscent of Swiss cheese

Associated Press 25 Jun 2025
Firefighters battle with a large wildfire burning in Kofinas, on the eastern Aegean island of Chios, Greece, late Sunday, June 22, 2025. (Pantelis Fykaris/Politischios.gr via AP)

Firefighters battle a wildfire burning out of control on the Greek island of Chios

Associated Press 25 Jun 2025

GOP plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands is found to violate Senate rules

Associated Press 24 Jun 2025
Hoh rainforest. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Trump administration plans to rescind rule blocking logging on national forest lands

Associated Press 24 Jun 2025
Residents remove debris after the passing of Hurricane Erick, near Charco Redondo, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz)

Mexico assesses damage from Hurricane Erick as rising rivers leave at least 1 dead

Associated Press 23 Jun 2025

California is to examine its Amazon oil ties following pleas from Indigenous leaders from Ecuador

Associated Press 20 Jun 2025

Brazil auctions off several Amazon oil sites despite environmentalists and Indigenous protests

Associated Press 18 Jun 2025
A sign is set up ahead of President Joe Biden's visit to the Chuckwalla National Monument, Jan. 7, 2025, to the Coachella Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

US Justice Department says Trump can cancel national monuments that protect landscapes

Associated Press 18 Jun 2025

Study finds planetary waves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950

Associated Press 17 Jun 2025
View of the village Brienz and the "Brienzer Rutsch", taken in Brienz-Brinzauls, Switzerland, May 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Arnd Wiegmann, File)

Swiss village evacuated over threat of rockslide

Associated Press 17 Jun 2025

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