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Naiki Vaast spearfishes along the coral reef in Vairao, Tahiti, French Polynesia, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

In Teahupo’o, Tahiti, coastal village life thrives among powerful waves

Surfers may arrive in Teahupo’o from around the world for its mighty waves, but unlike many other destinations globally that have become hotspots for surfers or other athletes looking for nature’s perfect conditions, village life for locals remains largely unspoiled.
 
A surfer rides a wave in Teahupo'o, Tahiti, French Polynesia, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024. The world-famous surf spot is set to host the 2024 Paris Olympics surfing competition. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Hundreds are set to descend on Tahiti for Olympic surfing. Can locals protect their way of life?

 
Katrina Cornish, a professor at Ohio State University who studies rubber alternatives, models a medical glove made from latex produced from the desert shrub guayule, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, in Wooster, Ohio. Cornish spends her days raising dandelions and desert shrubs. She harvests the stretchy rubber substances they produce and uses special machines to dip them into condoms, medical gloves and parts for trachea tubes. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Dandelions and shrubs to replace rubber, new grains and more: Are alternative crops realistic?

 
FILE - A boy holds locusts he caught in Elburgon, Kenya, March 17, 2021. Extreme wind and rain may lead to bigger and worse desert locust outbreaks, with human-caused climate change likely to intensify the weather patterns and cause higher outbreak risks, a new study has found. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

Erratic weather fueled by climate change will worsen locust outbreaks, study finds

 
This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows an oil spill caused by an overturned vessel off the coast of Tobago near Scarborough, Trinidad and Tobago, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Trinidad hires foreign experts to help contain oil spill and remove capsized barge

 

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Gayna Salinas looks out over the Green River, a tributary of the Colorado River, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, in Green River, Utah. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)

In rural Utah, concern over efforts to use Colorado River water to extract lithium

 
Light is reflected on part of the Aral Sea outside Muynak, Uzbekistan, Sunday, June 25, 2023. The destruction of the Aral Sea in Central Asia has been labeled by the U.N. as the most staggering disaster of the 20th century. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Climate change is fueling the disappearance of the Aral Sea. It’s taking residents’ livelihoods, too

 
Hunter Prince, left, watches a video on his computer inside his mother and stepfather's bedroom as his little brother, Waylon, right, finishes brushing his teeth at Camp Graves, a nonprofit helping provide temporary housing, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, in Water Valley, Ky. Two years after the tornado outbreak that killed dozens and leveled much of the real estate in Mayfield, many people, like the Prince family, are still living through another, slower disaster, the search for housing. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Two years after deadly tornadoes, some Mayfield families are still waiting for housing

 
A couple view the skyline of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Jan. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

In Vietnam, vibrant Ho Chi Minh City is a magnet that pulls in millions

 
Delaine Spilsbury, an Ely Shoshone elder, stands among Rocky Mountain juniper trees on Nov. 11, 2023, in Bahsahwahbee, a site in eastern Nevada that is sacred to members of the Ely Shoshone, Duckwater Shoshone and the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation. Their ancestors were massacred by white people on several occasions at this site and tribal members believe their spirits live on in the trees. Spilsbury has worked for years on federal recognition for the sacred site. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Great Basin tribes want Bahsahwahbee massacre site in Nevada named national monument

 
A sapling is held before it is planted inside Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Mbarara, Uganda, on Dec. 5, 2023. Refugees are helping to plant thousands of seedlings in hopes of reforesting the area. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

In Uganda, refugees’ need for wood ravaged the forest. Now, they work to restore it

 

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Yaad Ali, left, and his son Musikur Alam, row a boat to collect drinking water in the floodwaters in Sandahkhaiti, a floating island village in the Brahmaputra River in Morigaon district, Assam, India, Aug. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

AP photos reveal intensity, insecurity and inequality in 2023 as world altered by climate change

 
Ali Shadilov, left, and Anvar Saimbetov pose in front of an old boat in the area where the Aral Sea once was in Muynak, Uzbekistan, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. The Associated Press interviewed Shadilov and others in Muynak, Uzbekistan – all residents in their 60s and 70s who’ve long been tied to the sea, or what remains of it. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

These men once relied on the Aral Sea. Today, the dry land is a reminder of lost livelihoods

 
Juma Indigenous sisters Mandei Juma, from left, Mayta Juma and Borea Juma pose for a picture at their community, near Canutama, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sunday, July 9, 2023. The Juma seemed destined to disappear following the death of their father, the last remaining elderly man, but under his three daughters’ leadership, they changed the patriarchal tradition and now fight to preserve their territory and culture. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Indigenous women bring a tiny tribe back from the brink of extinction in the Amazon

 
Scientific diver Morgan Murphy-Cannella holds bull kelp with a dark patch of reproductive spores as she surveys a reforestation project, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, near Caspar, Calif. Kelp forests play an integral role in the health of the world’s oceans, one of the issues being discussed at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

From urchin crushing to lab-grown kelp, efforts to save California’s kelp forests show promise

 
Environmental activist members of the Situ Gede Cleanliness Warrior pick up trash while paddling kayaks at Setu Gede lake in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Young people have been at the forefront of environmental and climate change movements in recent years: initiatives like school strikes for climate action, protests at United Nations climate talks and around the world, and local clean ups have often been youth-led. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Indonesia’s youth clean up trash from waterways, but more permanent solutions are still elusive

 
Workers carry a solar panel for installation at the under-construction Adani Green Energy Limited's Renewable Energy Park in the salt desert of Karim Shahi village, near Khavda, Bhuj district near the India-Pakistan border in the western state of Gujarat, India, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. India is developing a 30 gigawatt hybrid — wind and solar — renewable energy project on one of the largest salt deserts in the world. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

In the salt deserts bordering Pakistan, India builds its largest renewable energy project

 
A person walks past signs that read "stop war" and "go green" at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Dec. 8, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

At UN climate talks in Dubai, moments between the meetings

 
Joyce Ngui heads to fetch groundwater in Athi River, Machakos county, Kenya, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. “Sometimes, we get to the water vending stations and find that the queue is long and then the water finishes and you have to wait,” Ngui said. “Most of the times you don’t have money to buy even the salty water sold around. So we have no choice but to use the swamp water," she said. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

In some neighborhoods in drought-prone Kenya, clean water is scarce. Filters are one solution

 
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How did humans get to the brink of crashing climate?

 
Bales of hay are stored under shelters at Al Dahra Farms, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, in the McMullen Valley in Wenden, Ariz. Worries about future water supplies from ancient aquifers are bubbling up in western rural Arizona. Some neighbors complain that their backyard wells have dried up since the Emirati agribusiness began farming alfalfa nearby. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Tensions are bubbling up at thirsty Arizona alfalfa farms as foreign firms exploit unregulated water

 

Fossil fuel influence at UN climate talks
Capuava oil refinery owned by Petrobras sits in Maui, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. Petrobras specializes in deep water exploration, drilling and extraction. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Oil companies attending climate talks have minimal green energy transition plans, AP analysis finds

 
Happy Cardinal, right, looks at what remains of his cabin, destroyed by wildfires, near Fort Chipewyan, Canada, on Sunday, Sep. 3, 2023. Wildfires are bringing fresh scrutiny to Canada's fossil fuel dominance, its environmentally friendly image and the viability of becoming carbon neutral by 2050. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Canada says it can fight climate change and be major oil nation. Massive fires may force a reckoning

 
FILE - The coal-fired power plant Uniper Scholven and a nearby BP refinery shine in the evening behind illuminated appartments in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. Environmental activists say the lobbying of fossil fuel interests are the reason why climate talks have yet to produce an agreement to phase out coal, oil and natural gas, as scientists have repeatedly said must happen to stave off the worst impacts of climate change, like extreme weather events. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Fossil fuel interests have large, yet often murky, presence at climate talks, AP analysis finds

 
FILE - An orca swims past a recreational boat sailing just offshore in the Salish Sea in the San Juan Islands, Wash., July 31, 2015. The U.S. Coast Guard is embarking on one of its most unique missions yet in the Puget Sound: a pilot program to alert vessels of whale sightings. The program is an effort to keep the giant marine mammals safe from boat strikes and noise in the highly used inland waters of Washington state. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

To keep whales safe, Coast Guard launches boat alert system in Seattle

The U.S. Coast Guard is embarking on one of its most unique missions yet in Puget Sound: a pilot program to alert vessels of whale sightings.
 
FILE - A Gila monster is displayed at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Dec. 14, 2018. A 34-year-old Colorado man has died on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, after being bitten by his pet gila monster in a very rare occurrence. Gila monster bites are often painful to humans, but normally aren't deadly, experts say. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

A Colorado man is dead after a pet Gila monster bite

Authorities say a Colorado man is dead after being bitten by his pet Gila monster. Lakewood police say 34-year-old Christopher Ward died in a hospital Friday, four days after the bite by the venomous lizard.
 
FILE - New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, left, and first lady Tammy Murphy attend the National Governors Association summer meeting, July 15, 2022, in Portland, Maine. Murphy, who is running for U.S. Senate, said Tuesday she opposes construction of a gas-fired backup power plant in a minority neighborhood already heavily burdened with pollution. But she did not say whether she has discussed her view with the one person who could stop the project in its tracks — her husband, Gov. Phil Murphy. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

New Jersey gov’s wife, a US Senate candidate, opposes power plant that he could kill

New Jersey’s First Lady Tammy Murphy, who is running for U.S. Senate, says she opposes construction of a gas-fired backup power plant in a minority neighborhood already heavily burdened with pollution.
 
FILE - Hugh Evans, CEO of Global Citizen, talks to a reporter during the Global Citizen NOW conference in New York, Friday, April 28, 2023. Evans announced Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, a new conference in Australia to bring Gen Z and millennial leaders into the fight to reach the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Global Citizen plans conference to team young people with world leaders like World Bank’s Ajay Banga

International advocacy organization Global Citizen is turning to Gen Z and millennial leaders in its fight to reach the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and end extreme poverty.
 
FILE - Democratic Gov. Janet Mills delivers her State of the State address, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, at the State House in Augusta, Maine. Mills says a state-owned site on the coast of Maine will serve as the location of an offshore wind port critical to developing the nation’s first floating offshore wind power research array, Tuesday, Feb. 20. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Maine wants to lead in offshore wind. The state’s governor says she has location for a key wind port

Maine’s governor says a state-owned site on the coast of Maine will serve as the location of an offshore wind port critical to developing the nation’s first floating offshore wind power research array.
 
People cross the street with umbrellas in heavy rain in Los Angeles, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Saturated California gets more rain and snow but so far escapes severe damage it saw only weeks ago

Much of saturated California remains under threat of floods as the latest winter storm blows through, but so far the state has escaped the severity of damage spawned by a recent atmospheric river.
 

Vermont governor seeks disaster declaration for December flooding

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott has requested a federal major disaster declaration to help communities hit by severe rainfall and flooding in December.
 
South Korean Air Force's Black Eagles aerobatic team performs during the first day of the Singapore Airshow in Singapore, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Singapore Airshow kicks off with aerial displays; Boeing and China’s COMAC announce new orders

The Singapore Airshow – Asia’s largest – kicks off Tuesday with an array of aerial displays including some by China’s COMAC C919 narrow-body airliner.
 
People cross the street with umbrellas in heavy rain in Los Angeles, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Wet winter storm hits California, closing regional airport and trapping people in swollen rivers

Another wet winter storm is swamping California with heavy rainfall, flooding the runways at a regional airport and leading to several rescues on swollen rivers and creeks.
 
A plane descends into Los Angeles International Airport as low clouds gather over the Pacific ahead of forecasted rain in Los Angeles, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Flood watches issued as another round of wet winter storms hits California

The latest in a series of wet winter storms is blowing ashore in Northern California. Forecasters warned on Sunday of possible flooding, hail, strong winds and even brief tornadoes as the system moves south over the next few days.
 
Trash is unloaded at the Otay Landfill in Chula Vista, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. Two years after California launched an effort to keep organic waste out of landfills, the state is so far behind on getting food recycling programs up and running that it's widely accepted next year's ambitious waste-reduction targets won't be met. Over time, food scraps and other organic materials like yard waste emit methane, a gas more potent and damaging in the short-term than carbon emissions from fossil fuels. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

California is forging ahead with food waste recycling. But is it too much, too fast?

Two years after California launched an effort to keep organic waste out of landfills, the state is behind on getting food recycling programs up and running.
 

4.7 magnitude earthquake outside of small Texas city among several recently in area

An earthquake of 4.7 magnitude struck early Saturday morning near a small Texas city. One of several that have occurred the area in recent days, it could be felt dozens of miles away, including in San Antonio.
 
This photo provided by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources shows a DNR boat crew assessing a dead juvenile right whale about 20 miles off Tybee Island, Ga., Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. (Georgia Department of Natural Resources via AP)

Another endangered whale was found dead off East Coast. This one died after colliding with a ship

Federal authorities said the second critically endangered North Atlantic right whale found dead in the last month showed injuries consistent with a collision with a ship.
 
This image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows dead elkhorn coral on Feb. 9, 2024, at Carysfort Reef, northeast of Key Largo, Fla. Record hot seawater killed more than three-quarters of human-cultivated coral that scientists had placed in the Florida Keys in recent years in an effort to prop up a threatened species that’s highly vulnerable to climate change, researchers discovered. (Ben Edmonds/NOAA via AP)

Hot seawater killed most of cultivated coral in Florida Keys in setback for restoration effort

Researchers are finding that record hot seawater killed more than three-quarters of human-cultivated coral that scientists had placed in the Florida Keys in recent years.
 

North Carolina judges say environmental board can end suit while Cooper’s challenge continues

Some North Carolina judges are allowing a state environmental board to go ahead and dismiss its lawsuit over pollution limits while Gov.
 
Maryland Secretary of the Environment Serena McIlwain speaks at a news conference on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024 in Annapolis, Md., where Gov. Wes Moore's administration highlighted $90 million that is being allocated to help reach the state's ambitious goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Moore is standing left, and Paul Pinsky, the head of the Maryland Energy Administration, is standing right. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore unveils $90M for environmental initiatives

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is highlighting $90 million that he is allocating as a down payment to help reach the state’s ambitious goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
 
Amy Lubick, a supervisory conservator at the National Archives, runs a cotton swab over a display case that held the U.S. Constitution at National Archives in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. The National Archives building and galleries were evacuated on Feb. 14 after two protesters dumped powder on the protective casing around the U.S. Constitution. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

National Archives working to clean up red powder dumped on Constitution display by protesters

Conservationists at the National Archives are still working to clean up the building’s rotunda area after a pair of protesters dumped reddish powder Wednesday afternoon on the display case housing the original U.S.
 

11 cold-stunned sea turtles returned to Atlantic after rehabilitation in Florida

Workers from Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida have released 11 cold-stunned Kemp’s ridley sea turtles back into the Atlantic Ocean.
 
A 46-foot-whale is seen washed ashore on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, on Sunset Beach State Park in Clatsop County, Ore. (Tiffany Boothe/Seaside Aquarium via AP)

A fin whale decomposing on an Oregon beach creates a sad but ‘super educational’ spectacle

It’s not yet known what killed an endangered fin whale, but people can marvel at the large marine mammal as it decomposes on an Oregon beach.
 
This photo provided by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources shows a DNR boat crew assessing a dead juvenile right whale about 20 miles off Tybee Island, Ga., Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. (Georgia Department of Natural Resources via AP)

Endangered right whale floating dead off Georgia is rare species’ second fatality since January

Government scientists say a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale has been found dead off the coast of Georgia, marking the rare species’ second fatality in the past month.