Climate

Bridgette Murray poses next to an air quality monitor in the Pleasantville area of Houston, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Annie Mulligan)

FILE - Guohua Power Station, a coal-fired power plant, operates in Dingzhou, Baoding, in the northern China's Hebei province, Nov. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

The Shulls Mill Dam in Boone, North Carolina, is removed as part of a national effort to restore habitats across the United States.

A crew member works on the removal of the Shulls Mill Dam on the Watauga River, near Boone, N.C., Monday, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Erik Verduzco)

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)

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)

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)

A former greenhouse worker at AppHarvest, who wishes to remain anonymous, poses for a portrait behind a sheet of plastic, Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Morehead, Ky. Workers say they saw colleagues carried out on makeshift stretchers due to heat, and dozens more helped outside on others' shoulders. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Benson Wanjala stands on a field as he talks about the health of the soil at his farm in Machakos, Kenya, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)

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)

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

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)