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Zachary Sias, a graduating high school senior from South Delta High, sits on the slab of his destroyed family home on graduation day, the result of a deadly tornado, in Rolling Fork, Miss., Friday, May 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Homes that become deadly: Tornadoes kill disproportionately more in mobile homes, AP analysis finds

By Seth Borenstein, Camille Fassett and Michael Goldberg - Associated Press

A manatee floats in the warm water of a Florida Power &amp; Light discharge canal in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Jan. 31, 2022. A manatee was rescued from entanglement (not pictured) in a pound net in the waters off Windmill Point in Virginia’s Northern Neck, the state's Marine Police wrote on Facebook Monday. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) **FILE**

Florida aquarium’s manatee dead from ‘high-intensity’ sex with his brother

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Junichi Matsumoto, an official of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), speaks in an interview with The Associated Press at the TEPCO headquarters in Tokyo, Friday, July 28, 2023. Matsumoto, a top official in charge of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said an upcoming release of treated radioactive water into the sea more than 12 years after the meltdown disaster marks “a milestone,” but it's still an initial step of the daunting task of the decades-long decommissioning process that still remain. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Fukushima plant official says the coming release of treated water a milestone for decommissioning

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

FILE - A tour guide fans herself while working in Times Square as temperatures rise, July 27, 2023, in New York. Nearly 60% of the U.S. population, are under a heat advisory or flood warning or watch as the high temperatures spread and new areas are told to expect severe storms. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Extreme heat moves east where many will see their hottest days of the year

By Drew Costley and Joseph B. Frederick - Associated Press

Illustration about the rise of a dangerous fungus called Candida auris.(Illustration/Amelia Bates, Grist via AP)

Dangerous fungus is becoming more prevalent. Scientists believe climate change could be to blame

By Camille Fassett - Associated Press

Promotion isn’t NRC’s role

Gondolas go up next to the Matterhorn in Zermatt, Switzerland, Thursday, Dec.3, 2020. Zermatt is home to one of the Swiss ski stations that has become an epicenter of discord among Alpine neighbors. EU member states Austria, France, Germany and Italy are shutting or severely restricting access to the slopes this holiday season amid COVID-19 concerns, Switzerland is not. (AP Photo/Jamey Keaten)

DNA tests confirm the body found on a Swiss glacier is of a German mountaineer missing since 1986

Associated Press

Burnt cars are seen after a wildfire near Gennadi village, on the Aegean Sea island of Rhodes, southeastern Greece, on Thursday, July 27, 2023. The wildfires have raged across parts of the country during three successive Mediterranean heat waves over two weeks, leaving five people dead. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Wildfire in Greece triggers explosions at ammunition depot and relocation of fighter jets

By Petros Giannakouris and Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

In this image from video provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, rescuers pull up a body from waters during a rescue operation at Binangonan, Rizal province, east of Manila, Philippines on Thursday July 27, 2023. A Philippine passenger boat carrying dozens of people, including children, overturned Thursday after being lashed by strong wind in a town southeast of Manila and search and rescue efforts were underway, the Coast Guard said. (Philippine Coast Guard via AP)

Fierce winds cause panic on ferry that capsizes in Philippines, killing at least 26, officials say

By Jim Gomez - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, center, waves as he arrives in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Thursday, July 27, 2023. Widodo arrived in Chengdu on Thursday to attend the opening ceremony of the 31st summer edition of the FISU World University Games. (Jiang Hongjing/Xinhua via AP)

Presidents of Indonesia and China meet to discuss joint projects and regional politics

Associated Press

The Mountain Valley Pipeline route on Brush Mountain, July 18, 2018. The Supreme Court is allowing construction to resume on a contested natural-gas pipeline that is being built through Virginia and West Virginia. Work had been halted by the federal appeals court in Richmond, even after Congress ordered the project's approval as part of the bipartisan bill to increase the debt ceiling. President Joe Biden signed the bill into law in June. (Heather Rousseau/The Roanoke Times via AP)

Supreme Court allows construction of Mountain Valley Pipeline to continue

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Workers load grain at a grain port in Izmail, Ukraine, on April 26, 2023. NATO said Wednesday July 26, 2023, it was stepping up surveillance of the Black Sea region as it condemned Russia’s exit from a landmark deal that allowed Ukrainian grain exports through the Black Sea. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko, File)

NATO will step up security in Black Sea region after Russia declares parts are unsafe for shipping

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With Chase Field, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team in the background, a digital billboard updates the time and temperature as temperatures are expected to hit 116 degrees July 18, 2023, in Phoenix. President Joe Biden plans to announce new steps to address the extreme heat that has threatened millions of Americans, most recently in the Southwest. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Biden looks to provide relief from extreme heat as record temperatures persist

By Chris Megerian, Drew Costley and Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Coast Guard Station Oregon Inlet and Dare County responded to a capsized 20-foot airboat West of Oregon Inlet, N.C., on Thursday, July 26, 2023. The U.S. Coast Guard says 11 people were rescued after an airboat capsized off the Outer Banks. A Dare County, North Carolina, dispatcher alerted the Coast Guard Wednesday morning that a 20-foot airboat capsized about half of a mile west of Oregon Inlet. (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard Station Oregon Inlet via AP)

Coast Guard says 11 people rescued after airboat capsized off Outer Banks

Associated Press

In this image provided by Russian Emergency Situations Ministry press service, firefighters extinguish a Mi-8 helicopter after the crash near Tyungur village, Altai Republic in southern Siberia, Russia, Thursday, July 27, 2023. A helicopter crashed in Russia's Siberia on Thursday, killing six of those on board and injuring seven, Russian emergency officials reported. (Ministry of Emergency Situations press service via AP)

Russian helicopter crashes in Siberia, killing 4 people on board and injuring 10

Associated Press

People stand by cases of bottled water as the City of Germantown gives them out to residents on Monday, July 24, 2023 at Forest Hill Elementary School in Germantown, Tenn. Residents of the Tennessee city were told that diesel fuel spilled into a local reservoir, and to avoid drinking tap water. People remain under an order Wednesday, July 26 to avoid using water for everything except flushing toilets. They can’t drink or boil tap water, or use it showering or bathing. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian via AP)

6 days after fuel spill reported, most in Germantown, Tennessee still can’t drink the tap water

By Adrian Sainz - Associated Press

Central Maine Power utility lines are seen on Oct. 6, 2021, in Pownal, Maine. It’s one of President Joe Biden’s thorniest challenges as he pursues ambitious reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. If he can't streamline the permitting process for power plants, transmission lines and other projects, the country is unlikely to have the infrastructure needed for a future powered by carbon-free electricity. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Manchin touts energy policy as the key to combating blackouts — and boosting Biden’s green agenda

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

The European Commission headquarters is reflected in the windows of the European Council building in Brussels, on Oct. 28, 2019. Poland has made a complaint against Germany to the European Commission over tons of German waste, some of it allegedly toxic, brought and stored in unauthorized landfills across Poland, officials said Wednesday July 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Poland complains to European Union about German waste brought and dumped in unauthorized landfills

Associated Press

This undated handout image provided by Greece's coast guard on June 14, 2023, shows scores of people on a battered fishing boat that later capsized and sank off southern Greece. The border and coast guard agency Frontex estimated that more than 50,300 attempts were made to enter the EU without authorization from January to May. (Hellenic Coast Guard via AP, File)

EU watchdog opens probe in role of bloc’s border agency in Mediterranean shipwreck tragedy

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

America can’t afford to lose conventional energy sources

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times