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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

Climate Alternative Insurance
Joemar Flores stands at his farm in Mindanao, Philippines, May 9, 2024. A growing type of insurance, called parametric insurance, is helping farmers like Flores and others in developing countries respond to extreme weather events. (Bill Spindle/Cipher News via AP)

Agriculture

Increasingly popular ‘parametric insurance’ helps farmers and others hit hard by extreme weather

JULY 12, 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

As climate change alters lakes, tribes and conservationists fight for the future of spearfishing

JULY 9, 2024

Philippines LNG Buildout Governor
The sun sets over a liquefied natural gas power plant in Santa Clara, Batangas province, Philippines on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. The Philippines is seeing one of the world's biggest buildouts of natural gas infrastructure. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Climate

AP reports politician who pushed Philippines natural gas boom is behind firm that planned to profit

JUNE 28, 2024

Nate Lord
On the hottest day of the young summer season, Nate Lord uses an ice pick to break a block of ice before delivering it to a guest cabin at Rockywold Deephaven Camps, Thursday, June 20, 2024, in Holderness, N.H. Ice harvested from Squam Lake during the winter is used for refrigeration at each cabin throughout the summer. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Climate

Photographer Robert F. Bukaty finds icy gem in heat wave, leads text story on hottest day of year 

JUNE 28, 2024

A Poisoned View
A cruise ship crosses Penobscot Bay, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, in off the coast of Camden, Maine. A homeowner poisoned a neighbor's trees to get a view of the scenic waterfront, sparking outrage in the community. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Climate

AP captivates readers with a tale of wealthy hubris and poisoned trees 

JUNE 28, 2024

Election 2024 Trump Burgum Pipeline
FILE - Republican presidential candidate North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum speaks during a debate, Sept. 27, 2023, in Simi Valley, Calif. Burgum is one of Donald Trump’s most visible and vocal backers, sprinting around the country to drum up support while auditioning to be his running mate. Meanwhile, Burgum is wrestling with a mammoth carbon dioxide pipeline project in his home state. The $5.5 billion venture has split North Dakota and left him straddling an awkward political divide as Trump and President Joe Biden offer voters starkly different visions of America. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Climate

A potential Trump VP pick backs a controversial CO2 pipeline favored by the Biden White House

JUNE 25, 2024

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Tourists swim in the cenote "Dos Ojos," or Two Eyes, on the outskirts of Playa del Carmen, Mexico, Saturday, March 9, 2024. These glowing sinkhole lakes, known as cenotes, are a part of one of Mexico's natural wonders: A fragile system of thousands of subterranean caverns, rivers, and lakes that wind beneath Mexico's southern Yucatan peninsula. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Climate

AP reporters go deep — underwater — for an untold story of environmental destruction

JUNE 7, 2024

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A general view shows an entrance to the Pantex Plant, Friday, March 1, 2024, in Panhandle, Texas.

Climate

Sites with radioactive material more vulnerable as climate change increases wildfire and flood risks

MAY 31, 2024

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