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People take shelter and check for news on their mobile phones after an earthquake in Rabat, Morocco, Friday, Sept. 8, 2023. A powerful earthquake struck Morocco late Friday, damaging buildings in major cities and sending panicked people pouring into streets and alleyways from Rabat to Marrakech. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Powerful quake in Morocco kills more than 800 people and damages historic buildings in Marrakech

By Sam Metz and Mosa'ab Eishamy - Associated Press

FILE - Water rushes through the Edenville Dam, Tuesday, May 19, 2020, in Edenville, Mich. Property owners seeking to hold the state of Michigan responsible for the disastrous failure of the dam in 2020, have won a critical ruling from an appeals court. In a 3-0 opinion, the court refused to dismiss a series of lawsuits that link the Edenville Dam's collapse to decisions by state regulators. (Katy Kildee/Midland Daily News via AP, File)

Victims of Michigan dam collapse win key ruling in lawsuits against state

By Ed White - Associated Press

FILE - In this October 2016, file photo, construction continues on the Dakota Access Pipeline. Federal officials on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, released a draft environmental review of the Dakota Access oil pipeline without a recommendation from five options for the future of the line's controversial river crossing in North Dakota, proposals which include an extensive reroute miles upstream. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)

Feds leave future of Dakota Access pipeline’s controversial river crossing unclear in draft review

By Jack Dura - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Greek Prime Minister's Office, evacuees from flooded villages arrive by helicopter at a soccer stadium, in Karditsa, Thessaly region, central Greece, on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023. Severe rainstorms eased but floodwaters were still rising in parts of central Greece Friday, while fire department and military helicopters were plucking people from villages inundated by tons of water and mud that have left several people dead and others missing and many people clinging to the roofs of their homes, appealing for rescue. (Dimitris Papamitsos/Greek Prime Minister's Office via AP)

Evacuation orders are in place in central Greece as a river bursts its banks and floodwaters rise

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, speaks in the Bundestag. in Berlin, Friday Sept. 8, 2023. German lawmakers on Friday approved contentious legislation for the replacement of fossil-fuel heating systems, passing a major climate policy plan that prompted lengthy infighting in the governing coalition and helped push down its poll ratings. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)

German lawmakers approve a contentious plan to replace fossil-fuel heating

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

People take shelter and check for news on their mobile phones after an earthquake in Rabat, Morocco, late Friday, Sept. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Powerful earthquake strikes Morocco, killing hundreds and damaging historic buildings

By Sam Metz - Associated Press

This Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Lee, right, off in the central tropical Atlantic Ocean. (NOAA via AP)

Hurricane Lee charges over Atlantic waters as a Category 5 storm, approaching the Caribbean

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A jogger passes power lines during a sunset run, Aug. 20, 2023, in San Antonio, as high temperatures continue to stress the power grid. On Thursday, Sept. 7, Texas' power grid manager again asked residents to cut back on electricity as a prolonged and punishing summer heat wave continued, a day after the system was pushed to brink of outages for the first time since a deadly winter blackout in 2021. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas heat brings the state’s power grid closest it has been to outages since 2021 winter storm

By Juan A. Lozano - Associated Press

Crews construct a section of border wall in San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, in Douglas, Ariz. Construction of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump toppled untold numbers of saguaro cactuses in Arizona, put endangered ocelots at risk in Texas and disturbed Native American burial grounds, Congress' official watchdog said Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Biden’s construction halt worsens Trump wall damage; erosion undermines integrity

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Japan's Prime Minster Fumio Kishida attends the East Asia Summit at the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan’s Kishida says China seafood ban contrasts with wide support for Fukushima water release

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

This Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Lee, right, off in the central tropical Atlantic Ocean. (NOAA via AP)

Hurricane Lee could become first Category 5 storm of the Atlantic season, forecasters warn

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In this Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015, file photo, rhinos walk in the Hluhluwe Game Reserve in South Africa. World Rhino Day is Sept. 22. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, File)

South African conservation nonprofit buys rhino breeding farm, plans to rewild 2,000 animals

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A technician releases a valve of a tank at Bajaj Hindustan Sugar factory that produces ethanol, a type of biofuel, in Meerut, India, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Any fuel produced from agricultural produce or organic waste is a biofuel. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

What are biofuels and why is it so confusing whether they are a source of clean energy or not?

By Sibi Arasu - Associated Press

Floodwaters cover houses and farms after the country's record rainstorm in the village of Kastro, near Larissa, Thessaly region, central Greece, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. The death toll from severe rainstorms that lashed parts of Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria increased after rescue teams in the three neighboring countries recovered more bodies. (AP Photo/Vaggelis Kousioras)

More than 800 people rescued from floodwaters in Greece after severe rainstorms

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A Tacoma Power crew works at an electrical substation damaged by vandals early on Christmas morning after cutting a padlock to gain entry, according to a crew manager, Dec. 25, 2022, in Graham, Wash. Two men pleaded guilty to vandalizing power substations in Washington state in attacks that left thousands without power on Christmas Day. Jeremy Crahan admitted Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, that he and Matthew Greenwood, who pleaded guilty in April to conspiracy to destroy energy facilities, conspired to cut electrical power in order to break into ATM machines and businesses and steal money. (Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times via AP, File)

2 men plead guilty to vandalizing power substations in Washington state on Christmas Day

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FILE - People wearing protective masks take photos as they walk through the row of ginkgo trees along a sidewalk as the trees and sidewalk are covered with the bright yellow leaves at Jingu Gaien park area on Nov. 28, 2020, in Tokyo. Tokyo's Jingu Gaien park area has been placed on a “Heritage Alert” list by a conservancy that assesses international monuments and historic sites. The body says the planned redevelopment will lead to “irreversible destruction of cultural heritage" with thousands of trees being felled. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

Tokyo’s threatened Jingu Gaien park placed on ‘Heritage Alert’ list by conservancy body

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

A sign reading "No CO2, no eminent domain" stands along a rural road east of Bismarck, N.D., on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. The sign is in opposition to Summit Carbon Solutions' proposed $5.5 billion, 2,000-mile pipeline network to carry carbon dioxide emissions from dozens of ethanol plants in five states to central North Dakota for permanent storage deep underground. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)

CO2 pipeline project denied key permit in South Dakota; another seeks second chance in North Dakota

By Jack Dura and Steve Karnowski - Associated Press

FILE - A core sample drilled from underground rock near Ely, Minn., shows a band of shiny minerals containing copper, nickel and precious metals, center, that Twin Metals Minnesota LLC, hopes to mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota, Oct. 4, 2011. On Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, a federal judge dealt another serious setback to the proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, dismissing a lawsuit by the company that sought to regain the critical mineral rights leases that the Biden administration cancelled. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski, File)

Federal judge deals another serious blow to proposed copper-nickel mine on edge Minnesota wilderness

By Steve Karnowski - Associated Press

Vehicles line up to leave the Burning Man festival in Black Rock Desert, Nev., Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. The traffic jam leaving the festival eased up considerably Tuesday as the exodus from the mud-caked Nevada desert entered a second day following massive rain that left tens of thousands of partygoers stranded there for days. (Monique Sady via AP)

Burning Man is ending, but the cleanup from heavy flooding is far from over

By Ed Komenda, Gabe Stern and Scott Sonner - Associated Press

This Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Lee, right, off in the central tropical Atlantic Ocean. (NOAA via AP)

Hurricane Lee charges through open Atlantic waters as it approaches northeast Caribbean

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