Climate

Faye Jackson has lived for decades on a patch of rural land, right, in Resaca, Ga., on the banks of the Conasauga River, seen on Thursday, May 8, 2025. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

FILE - A person works at a snow making machine on a hill overlooking cross-country skiing practice before the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 2, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

A prototype OceanWell reverse osmosis pod sits on the dock at the Las Virgenes Reservoir in Westlake Village, Calif., Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, where the deep sea desalination technology is being tested. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

This image from video by the United States Geological Survey shows lava erupting from Kilauea volcano on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii. (USGS via AP)

Technical equipment of the INEOS Energy's Siri platform is seen from the helicopter pad at the platform in the North Sea, Denmark, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/James Brooks)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom arrives for an event at the German Pavilion at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

A man wades through floodwaters with his dog and belongings from his home flooded by Hurricane Melissa in Santiago de Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramón Espinosa)

Flor Jimenez waters her crop of cempasuchil flowers in preparation for Day of the Dead celebrations in Xochimilco where marigolds are grown on the outskirts of Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Claudia Rosel)

A worker harvests pears at an orchard in Naches, Wash., Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

Antoine Polliand, from France, who cycled from Azerbaijan to Portugal with the COP30 Bike Ride, poses with his bicycle in the cargo hold of the Avontuur ship moored in Cascais, outside Lisbon, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. He is part of a group heading to Belem, Brazil, the Amazonian city hosting the U.N. COP30 climate talks in November. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Miners carry sacks filled with mercury ore while their colleagues light the way in San Joaquin, Mexico, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Dana Grimes and her husband bought a new home after theirs was destroyed by a tornado. But, five months after the storm, much of the wreckage still covers their property. Photograph taken in Jayess, Mississippi on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Sophie Bates)