Climate

Hawaii Wildfire Anniversary Upcountry Maui
A fire-detection camera overlooks a neighborhood on Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Kula, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)

Climate

After fire struck Maui’s Upcountry, residents of one town looked to themselves to prep for next one

AUG. 12, 2024

AP Poll Extreme Heat
FILE - A person wipes sweat from their brow at Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, Calif., July 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil, File)

Climate

Extreme heat is impacting most Americans’ electricity bills, AP-NORC poll finds

AUG. 7, 2024

Biomass Boom Environmental Justice
Shelia Mae Dobbins walks with her oxygen tube inside her home in Gloster, Miss., Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Dobbins feels her life — and health — were better before Drax began compressing tons of wood chips nearby, (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Climate

Wood pellets production boomed to feed EU demand. It’s come at a cost for Black people in the South

AUG. 2, 2024

Climate Italy Drought Tourism
Visitors admire the ancient Greek Concordia temple, known as the Temple of Juno, in the Valley of the Temples archeological park, in Agrigento, southern Sicily, Italy, Thursday, July 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Climate

Sicilians deal so well with drought that tourists don’t notice. A record dry year could alter that

JULY 30, 2024

APTOPIX Climate Fireflies Flickering Future
A long, slow-moving trail of light created by a Blue Ghost firefly is visible late Saturday, June 22, 2024, near Cincinnati. Fireflies produce a chemical reaction inside their bodies, allowing them to light up. This type of light production is called bioluminescence. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Climate

The flickering glow of summer’s fireflies: too important to lose, too small to notice them gone

JULY 24, 2024

Climate Disaster Hot Spots
FILE - Buildings and homes are flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura near Lake Charles, La., on Aug. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Climate

Data shows hurricanes and earthquakes grab headlines but inland counties top disaster list

JULY 23, 2024

APTOPIX Climate Spearfishing
Mark Ojibway wades in shallow water looking for walleye during the spring spearfishing season at the Chippewa Flowage on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, Sunday, April 14, 2024, near Hayward, Wis. Walleye numbers in some lakes are dwindling due to warming waters, increasingly variable seasonal changes and lakeshore development. Losing the species would mean losing a food source for Ojibwe and other Indigenous people, a sovereign right to fish and a deep connection to tradition and nature. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Climate

AP journalists highlight climate change threat to Indigenous traditions in comprehensive, empathetic coverage

JULY 19, 2024

Paris Seine Water Quality
FILE - People sit along the Seine River with stands installed on its banks, July 4, 2024, in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Climate

Will the Seine be clean enough by the Olympics? Not even the experts know yet

JULY 16, 2024

Indonesia Deforestation Nickel Smelters
A boat cruises past the Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park in Central Halmahera, North Maluku province, Indonesia, Saturday, June 8, 2024. Indonesia has been building out a vast industry for nickel. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Climate

Indonesia’s massive metals build-out is felling the forest for batteries

JULY 16, 2024

APTOPIX Climate Hurricane Recovery
Lisa Bregenzer poses for a picture on the canal-side lot where her home stood until the passage of last year's Hurricane Idalia, Thursday, May 9, 2024, in Horseshoe Beach, Fla. In July, nearly a year after the storm that upended her and her husband's lives, Bregenzer has finally found hope. Her family was approved for a program that will help them build a new home, and if all goes as planned, they'll move into a stilted two-bedroom house on their lot by year's end. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Climate

Battered by Hurricane Idalia last year, Florida village ponders future as hurricane season begins

JULY 15, 2024

APTOPIX Climate Migration Quinault Nation
Pelicans fly near the shore as waves from the Pacific Ocean roll in Tuesday, May 14, 2024, on the Quinault reservation in Taholah, Wash. Facing increased flooding from a rising Pacific, the tribe has been working for over a decade to relocate Taholah, their largest village, to a new site on higher ground. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Climate

For at least a decade Quinault Nation has tried to escape the rising Pacific. Time is running out

JULY 12, 2024

India Floods Baby
25-year-old Jahanara Khatoon, who is at full-term pregnancy, reacts in pain with onset of labour as she travels on a boat on her way to a health centre, over the River Brahmaputra, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Climate

Extreme climate turns personal as woman gives birth on a boat in an Indian monsoon

JULY 12, 2024

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