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FILE - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gestures as she gives her victory speech to Labour Party members at an event in Auckland, New Zealand, Oct. 17, 2020. The former New Zealand Prime Minister, Ardern will work alongside leaders from Conservation International to advocate for climate action and improve people's treatment of the environment. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

New Zealand’s ex-Premier Jacinda Ardern will join conservation group to rally for environment action

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

FILE - A huge foundation for an Orsted offshore wind turbine, called a monopile, sits atop wheeled movers in Paulsboro, N.J., July 6, 2023. The Danish wind energy developer Ørsted said it's scrapping its Ocean Wind I and II projects off southern New Jersey due to problems with supply chains, higher interest rates and a failure to obtain desired tax credits. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry, File)

Orsted wants out of $300M forfeiture for scrapped New Jersey offshore wind farms

By Wayne Parry - Associated Press

Flags of North Korea, rear, and South Korea, front, flutter in the wind as pictured from the border area between two Koreas in Paju, South Korea, on Aug. 9, 2021. South Korea said Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, it plans to launch its first domestically built spy satellite at the end of this month as part of its efforts to better monitor rival North Korea and deter its potential aggressions. (Im Byung-shik/Yonhap via AP, File)

South Korea plans to launch its first military spy satellite on Nov. 30

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

Ambulance. File image credit Chris D swabb via Shutterstock.

Three found dead inside Missouri home; high levels of carbon monoxide detected

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Nuclear power and U.S. energy independence illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Harnessing nuclear power key to U.S. energy independence

By Rep. Bob Latta

Julann Spromberg, a research toxicologist with Ocean Associates Inc., working under contract with NOAA Fisheries, observes a salmon placed in a tank of clear water after it died from four hours of exposure to unfiltered highway runoff water on Oct. 20, 2014. The Environmental Protection Agency on Nov. 2, 2023, granted a petition submitted by Native American tribes in California and Washington state asking federal regulators to prohibit the use of the chemical 6PPD in tires due to its lethal effect on salmon, steelhead trout, and other wildlife. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

U.S. regulators will review car-tire chemical that kills salmon, upon request from West Coast tribes

By Mark Thiessen - Associated Press

Nottingham Forest's Ola Aina, second right, celebrates scoring their side's first goal of the game with teammates during the English Premier League soccer match at City Ground, Nottingham, England, Sunday, Nov. 5 2023. (Nick Potts/PA via AP)

Martinez’s mistake contributes to Aston Villa’s 2-0 loss at Nottingham Forest in the Premier League

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Britain's Prince William, center, met with public as he arrives at Jewel Changi airport, Singapore, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Prince William arrives in Singapore for annual Earthshot Prize award, the first to be held in Asia

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A villager holding umbrella to protect himself from sun, walks over parched land on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India on May 2, 2009. Tense negotiations at the final meeting on a climate-related loss and damages fund — an international fund to help poor countries hit hard by a warming planet — ended Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023, in Abu Dhabi, with participants agreeing that the World Bank would temporarily host the fund for the next four years.(AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout, File)

Stage set for conflict at COP28 with mixed response to outcome of key climate talks

By Sibi Arasu - Associated Press

A woman sits in front of her earthquake damaged house in Jajarkot district, northwestern Nepal, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. Friday night’s earthquake killed more than hundred people in the district while more than fifty were killed in the neighboring Rukum district, officials said. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Nepal villagers cremate loved ones who perished in earthquake that shook its northwest, killing 157

By Binaj Gurubacharya - Associated Press

Leo Ortega tours agave plants at his home in Murrieta, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. Agave thrives on almost no water. The plant isn't grown on a large scale in California, and it would take years for that to happen, but local distillers say the spirits they've made from agave so far are selling out. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Californians bet farming agave for spirits holds key to weathering drought and groundwater limits

By Amy Taxin - Associated Press

Boats are docked at the reservoir where a ferry sank in Guatape, Colombia, Sunday, June 25, 2017. Nine people were dead and 28 missing after a tourist ferry packed with around 170 passengers for the holiday weekend capsized Sunday on a reservoir near the Colombian city of Medellin, officials said. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides) **FILE**

Landslide of plants and soil injures at least 15 at Colombian tourist attraction

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A doctor looks after a patient injured in an earthquake, evacuated from his village and brought to a hospital in Nepalgunj, Nepal, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. Helicopters and ground troops rushed to help people hurt in a strong earthquake that shook northwestern Nepal districts just before midnight Friday, killing more than hundred people and injuring dozens more, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Krishna Adikari)

Quake shakes northwest Nepal, killing at least 128 and injuring dozens. Officials fear toll to rise

By Binaj Gurubacharya - Associated Press

This handout photo provided by Nepal Prime Minister's Office shows an earthquake-affected area in northwestern Nepal, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. Helicopters and ground troops rushed to help people hurt in a strong earthquake that shook northwestern Nepal districts just before midnight Friday, killing more than 100 people and injuring dozens dozens more, officials said Saturday. (Nepal Prime Minister's Office via AP)

Nepal rushes aid and rescue operations after strong quake shakes its northwest, killing at least 157

By Binaj Gurubacharya - Associated Press

Traffic moves on a road enveloped by fog and smog in New Delhi, India, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. Authorities on Friday shut primary schools and banned polluting vehicles and construction activity to control the worst haze and smog this season, causing respiratory infections among people and enveloping monuments and high-rise buildings in and around New Delhi. (AP Photo)

New Delhi shuts schools and limits construction work to reduce severe air pollution

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People make their way on a flooded street in Campi di Bisenzio, in the central Italian Tuscany region, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. Record-breaking rain provoked floods in a vast swath of Tuscany as storm Ciaran pushed into Italy overnight Friday, trapping people in their homes, inundating hospitals and overturning cars. At least three people were killed, and four were missing. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Storm Ciaran brings record rainfall to Italy with at least 6 killed. European death toll rises to 14

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

A man saws a tree that fell on a parking lot Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023 in Hasparren, southwestern France. Winds up to 180 kilometers per hour (108 mph) slammed the French Atlantic coast overnight along with violent rains and huge waves, as Storm Ciaran uprooted trees, blew out windows and left 1.2 million households without electricity. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

Storm Ciaran whips Western Europe, blowing record winds in France and leaving millions without power

By Angela Charlton - Associated Press

A rig and supply vessel are viewed in the Gulf of Mexico off the cost of Louisiana, April 10, 2011. A sale of federal Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases that had been scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, was delayed Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, by a federal appeals court, pending court arguments that focus on protections for an endangered whale species. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Sale of federal oil and gas leases in Gulf of Mexico off again pending hearings on whale protections

By Kevin McGill - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on economic issues via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin is seen on the screen. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin signs bill revoking Russia’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban treaty

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This aerial view shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, northern Japan, on Aug. 24, 2023, shortly after its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings TEPCO began releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. The tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began its third release of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the sea on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023, after Japanese officials said the two earlier releases ended smoothly. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant starts 3rd release of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press