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Municipal workers disinfect dead pelicans on San Pedro beach in Lima, Peru, on Dec. 1, 2022. The World Health Organization said more than two dozen cats have been infected with bird flu across Poland, but no people appeared to have been sickened. In a statement on Monday, July 17, 2023, the U.N. health agency said it was the first time so many cats had been reported to have bird flu over such a wide geographical area in a single country, amid an unprecedented global outbreak of the latest version of the H5N1 version of the disease. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo, File)

Dozens of cats in Poland had bird flu, but the risk to people is low, the U.N. health agency says

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A North Atlantic right whale feeds on the surface of Cape Cod bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass., March 28, 2018. A review of the status of the vanishing species of whale found that the animal's population is in worse shape than previously thought, federal ocean regulators said Monday, July 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Vanishing whale’s decline worse than previously thought, feds say

By Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

Faithful wait for the start of Pope Francis' Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, July 16, 2023. Tourist flock to the eternal city while scorching temperatures grip central Italy with Rome at the top of the red alert list as one of the hottest cities in the country. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Heat wave bakes southern Europe, sparking warnings to stay inside, drink water and limit exercise

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Workers load grain at a grain port in Izmail, Ukraine, on April 26, 2023. The fate of a wartime deal designed to move food from Ukraine to parts of the world where millions are going hungry is unclear as it faces renewal Monday, July 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko, File)

Russia halts wartime deal that allows Ukraine to ship grain in a hit to global food security

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The Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) is pictured in downtown Chicago, where the air quality has been categorized "unhealthy" by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, on June 27, 2023. The EPA says extensive swaths of the northern United States awoke to unhealthy air quality Monday, July 17, or were experiencing it by midafternoon. Fine particle pollution caused by smoke from Canada’s wildfires is causing a red zone air quality index, meaning it is unhealthy for everyone. (AP Photo/Claire Savage, file)

Unhealthy air quality lingers across parts of U.S. from drifting Canadian wildfire smoke

By Claire Savage - Associated Press

A farmer collects harvest in a field 10 kilometers from the front line, around a crater left by a Russian rocket in the foreground, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, July 4, 2022. Agreements that the U.N. and Turkey brokered with Ukraine and Russia to allow food and fertilizer to get from the warring nations to parts of the world where millions are going hungry have eased concerns over global food security. But they face increasing risks. Moscow has ramped up its rhetoric, saying it may not extend the deal that expires Monday, July 17, 2023, unless its demands are met. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Why allowing Ukraine to ship grain during Russia’s war matters to the world

By Courtney Bonnell - Associated Press

This photo provided by Jersey Central Power & Light shows flooding along Snyder Road, in Phillipsburg, N.J., near the intersection with county Route 519, Sunday, July 16, 2023. (Courtesy of JCP&L via AP)

Flash flooding claims at least 5 lives in Pennsylvania as rains swamp Northeast

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John Kerry, United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, speaks after a news conference given by China's Special Envoy for Climate Change Xie Zhenhua at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov. 10, 2021. Kerry was holding talks Monday, July 17, 2023, with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing as the U.S. seeks to restore contacts amid disputes over trade, Taiwan, human rights and territorial claims. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Climate envoy John Kerry is in China for talks the U.S. hopes will raise relations from historic low

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Martha Williams (center), director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, talks with Jimmy Laurent (left), regional energy coordinator for U.S. Fish and Wildlife, and Thomas Harris, secretary for the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, as they visit the B-5 orphan well site in the Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge in Lottie, La., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. Dozens of scientists from universities across the nation are challenging whether Williams has the education needed to run an agency in charge of managing endangered species. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) **FILE**

GOP bill would shut down Biden administration’s ‘ecogrief’ training

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this frame grab taken from a footage made available by the Italian firefighters is show a wing of a three-story apartment building collapsed in Torre Del Greco, Sunday, July 16, 2023, a seaside suburb of Naples. Two people were pulled out alive from the rubble, Italian firefighters said. (Italian Firefighters Via AP)

3 survivors rescued from rubble of collapsed apartment building in Naples, Italian officials say

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Landscape fabric covers the ground at a legal cannabis farm near Brewster, in north-central Washington state, on Tuesday, July 11, 2023, in this photo provided by Terry Lee Taylor. Taylor, who operates the Okanogan Gold and Kibble Junction marijuana companies, recently installed the fabric in hopes of keeping dirt and dust contaminated with remnants of the long-banned pesticide DDT off his plants. (Terry Lee Taylor via AP)

Washington legal pot farms get back to work after pesticide concerns halted operations

By Gene Johnson - Associated Press

Flames from the Donnie Creek wildfire burn along a ridge top north of Fort St. John, British Columbia, on Sunday, July 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Smoke from Canadian wildfires creates unhealthy conditions from Montana to Ohio

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A TV screen shows an image of North Korea's rocket launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on June 1, 2023. The United States and its allies clashed with Russia and China on Friday, June, 2, over North Korea’s failed launch of a military spy satellite this week in violation of multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions, which Moscow and Beijing refused to condemn.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Instability in Northeast Asia

By Joseph R. DeTrani

This July 11, 2023 image taken from video and provided by Pat Moore shows a rail bridge over Mountain Road that washed out by flash flooding in Ludlow, Vt. (Pat Moore via AP)

Vermont starts long road to recovery from historic floods, helped by army of volunteers

By Kathy McCormack and Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

Rescue workers search for people in houses collapsed folowing a landslide caused by heavy rain in Yecheon, South Korea, Saturday, July 15, 2023. (Gyeongbuk Fire Station Service Headquarters via Yonhap AP)

Days of torrential rain in South Korea leave at least 22 dead in landslides and floods

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

This photo taken during a tour for The Associated Press shows a blue pipeline to transport seawater, part of the facility for the release of treated radioactive water to sea from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, also known as TEPCO, in Futaba town, northeastern Japan, Friday, July 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant prepares to release diluted radioactive water into the sea

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Bette Zirkelbach, left, and Richie Moretti, right, watch as "Marcia," a juvenile green sea turtle, is released off the Florida Keys, Friday, July 14, 2023, at Sombrero Beach in Marathon, Fla. "Marcia," named by her rescuers after being found off Marathon suffering from positive buoyancy disorder, was rehabilitated at the Keys-based Turtle Hospital and was fitted with a satellite-tracking transmitter and released Friday to participate in the Tour de Turtles, an online educational tracking program coordinated by the Sea Turtle Conservancy. Beginning Aug. 1, the initiative is to follow 12 sea turtles for three months. (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP)

Rehabilitated sea turtle released in Florida Keys to join Tour de Turtles

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In this photo released by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3, the word for “moon craft” in Sanskrit, lifts off from Sriharikota, India. The spacecraft blazed its way to the far side of the moon Friday in a follow-up mission to its failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover softly on the lunar surface, the country's space agency said. A successful landing would make India the fourth country, after the United States, the Soviet Union, and China, to achieve the feat. (Indian Space Research Organisation via AP)

Crowds cheer as India launches a lander and rover to explore the moon’s south pole

By Aijaz Rahi and Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

Equipment clears mud from a neighborhood as flood waters block a street, Wednesday, July 12, 2023, in Barre, Vt. Following a storm that dumped nearly two months of rain in two days, Vermonters are cleaning up from the deluge of water. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Man drowns in home in Vermont’s 1st recorded flooding death

By Kathy McCormack - Associated Press

In this image provided by the Nevada Department of Wildlife, a Dixie Valley toad sits atop grass in Dixie Valley, Nev., on April 6, 2009. Interior Department officials have decided to “revisit” the 2021 environmental review that cleared the way for construction of a geothermal power plant in Nevada where an endangered toad lives, a victory for environmentalists and tribal leaders suing to block the project. (Matt Maples/Nevada Department of Wildlife via AP, File)

U.S. to reopen review of Nevada geothermal plant near endangered toad while legal battle is on hold

By Scott Sonner - Associated Press