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A North Atlantic right whale swims near a federal research vessel.

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  • Animals

North Atlantic right whale identified along Irish coast for first time in over 100 years

Climate change is shifting the critically endangered species' migratory patterns farther north.

July 22, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
Paul Watson, then founder and President of the animal rights and environmental Sea Shepherd Conservation, attends a demonstration against the Costa Rican government near Germany's presidential residence during a visit of Costa Rica's president in Berlin in May 2012. Greenland police said they arrested Watson on Sunday on an international arrest warrant issued by Japan.

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  • Climate

Anti-whaling activist arrested in Greenland, could be extradited to Japan

Canadian-American activist Paul Watson was en route to the North Pacific on a mission to intercept a new Japanese whaling ship when police boarded his vessel.

July 22, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Southwest Airlines says it's taking steps to keep its onboard beverages cooler.

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  • National

Soda cans are exploding on Southwest flights due to sky-high temperatures

The extreme heat searing the U.S. this summer is having an unexpected consequence thousands of feet in the air: It's causing some beverage cans on Southwest Airlines flights to burst when opened.

July 19, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Ice melting from Greenland and the polar regions is causing sea levels to rise, shifting mass around the planet in a way that's starting to slow its spin, scientists are finding.

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  • Climate

Days are getting slightly longer — and it's due to climate change

So much ice is melting at the Earth's poles that it's affecting the rotation of the planet, scientists say. Its spin is slowing down slightly, causing days to get longer.

July 19, 2024
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
Left to right: Danielle Butcher Franz, Karly Matthews, Stephen Perkins and Benji Backer talking about plans for the second day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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  • Climate

Climate hasn't been core to the GOP. These conservatives are trying to change that

Climate change hasn’t recently been a Republican priority. But some young conservatives are hoping to change the narrative within their party.


July 19, 2024
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  • Ximena Bustillo
A car is crushed by a fallen building that hosted the Gansevoort mural that was struck by a tornado, in Rome, N.Y., on Tuesday. Much of the U.S. and Canada is cleaning up or still dealing with a new wave of severe storms that have caused deaths and damage this week from the Plains to New England.

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  • Weather

Swath of storms flood the Ozarks and ravage an upstate New York community

The relentless series of storms caused deaths or damage from the Plains to Canada to New England. Hundreds of thousands of people lost power and air conditioning during days of sweltering heat.

July 18, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Tourists shelter from the sun in front of the Sforzesco Castle in Milan, Italy, on Tuesday. Weather alerts, forest fires, melting pavement in cities: A sizzling heat wave has sent temperatures in parts of central and southern Europe soaring toward 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) in some places.

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  • Weather

'Hellishly hot' southern Europe bakes under temperatures topping 104 F

Temperatures were in the triple-digits in much of the area on Tuesday and authorities warn that they could top 110 degrees F in southern Spain in the coming days.

July 17, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Firefighters work against the advancing Lake Fire in Los Olivos, Calif., on Saturday, July 6, 2024.

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  • Climate

California’s wildfires are burning far more land so far this year than in 2023

Cal Fire Chief Joe Tyler said the agency and its partners are equipped with with fire trucks, bulldozers, and newly introduced Blackhawk helicopters that can fly at night.

July 16, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
Athletes dive into the Seine River from the Alexander III bridge on the start of the first leg of the women's triathlon test event for the 2024 Paris Olympics in Paris in August 2023.

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  • Sports

Will the Seine be clean enough to swim in by the Olympics? Not even the experts know

Triathlon and marathon swimming are to take place in the Seine, where it has been illegal to swim for more than a century. The water has tested unsafe in recent weeks, and cleaner on other days.

July 16, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
 Mike Roberts (left) and Will Hammond Jr. (right) belt about the virtues of heat pumps.

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  • Climate

Don't think heat pumps are sexy? This slow jam could change your mind

Heat pumps are an important tool to stave off global warming. Two Berkeley musicians wrote a sultry anthem about them.

July 15, 2024
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  • Laura Klivans / KQED
Peter Nyongesa walks through the mangroves to monitor his beehives in the Bangladesh slums in Mombasa, Kenya, on May 30, 2024. The 69-year-old Nyongesa recalled how he would plead unsuccessfully with loggers to spare the mangroves or cut only the mature ones while leaving the younger ones intact. So he has turned to deterring the loggers with bees, hidden in the mangroves and ready to sting.

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  • Environment

To protect mangroves, some Kenyans combat logging with hidden beehives

As part of a local conservation effort, beehives dot a section of coastline in Mombasa to try to deter people who chop mangroves for firewood or home construction.

July 15, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Environmental activists rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 after it ruled against the Obama administration's plan to cut climate-warming emissions at the nation's power plants. The Supreme Court has since further limited the power of federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency.

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  • Climate

Why the next president's judicial appointments will impact climate action

The Supreme Court's recent term illustrates the judiciary's outsized role in government's ability to address climate change. The coming election could shape the judicial landscape for decades to come.

July 13, 2024
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  • Nathan Rott
Some of the reusable items to avoid single use plastics.

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  • National

How to live without plastics for a month, according to the founder of a global movement

Plastic Free July is upon us! Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, founder of Plastic Free July, encourages people to take the challenge with friends, start small and keep a “plastic-free kit” on hand.

July 12, 2024
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By:
  • Claire Murashima
Google Vice President Majd Bakar speaks on-stage during an annual conference in San Francisco with the back drop of a massive data center.

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  • Business

AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change

The tech giants both report surges in greenhouse gas emissions as they double-down on adding artificial intelligence to all of their products.

July 12, 2024
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  • Dara Kerr
Pump jacks extract oil from beneath the ground in North Dakota on May 19, 2021. The federal government announced a $241.5 million settlement with Marathon Oil on Thursday for alleged air quality violations at the company's oil and gas operations in the Forth Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota.

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  • Environment

Marathon Oil reaches a $241 million settlement with EPA for environmental violations

The federal government announced a settlement with Marathon Oil for alleged air quality violations at the company's oil and gas operations on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota.

July 11, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
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