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FILE - Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare reviews an honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on Oct. 9, 2019. Solomon Islands Prime Minister Sogavare will visit China next week, highlighting the accelerating contest between Beijing and Washington for influence in the South Pacific. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Visit by Solomon Islands leader to Beijing underscores rising China-U.S. rivalry in South Pacific

Associated Press

FILE - People walk through floodwaters near flooded farmlands after heavy rainfall in Hadeja, Nigeria, Sept 19, 2022 .Authorities in Nigeria say they have activated a national response plan for another round of deadly floods blamed mainly on climate change and infrastructure problems. The West African nation's National Emergency Management Agency said Thursday, July 6, 2023 it has begun to work based on dire forecasts by seeking air support for search and rescue missions while stockpiling relief materials. (AP Photo, file)

Nigeria triggers national response plan for annual deadly floods; 14 states on alert

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, shows a home after it collapsed onto a beach on Feb. 28, 2022, in Haleiwa, Hawaii. Rising seas and more intense storms are encroaching on coastal properties. Some coastal erosion removes sand surrounding cesspools and pulls sewage out to sea. (Dan Dennison/Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources via AP)

83,000 Hawaii homes dispose of sewage in cesspools. Rising sea levels will make them more of a mess

By Audrey McAvoy - Associated Press

This Monday, May 29, 2023, satellite image released by NASA shows Typhoon Mawar approaching the Philippines' northern provinces. (NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System — EOSDIS — via AP)

Climate ‘hottest day’ lies ratchet, and lockdowns loom again

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Smoke from a wildfire in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington State rises in the background in this view Hood River, Ore, Sunday, July 2, 2023. Authorities have more than doubled the number of people battling the wildfire that has burned some homes and forced the evacuation of hundreds of others in southwestern Washington near the Columbia River Gorge. (Joel Odom/The Oregonian via AP)

Help arrives to battle wildfire in Washington state near Columbia River Gorge

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Illustration on climate change predictions by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

The catastrophe du jour: ‘Climate change’ doomsday predictions

By Cal Thomas

Land-based windmills turn in the wind in Atlantic City, N.J., on April 28, 2022. On July 3, 2023, Atlantic Shores, the approved developer of New Jersey's third offshore wind farm, said it, too, wants a tax break or other financial assistance, hinting that its project might not be able to be done without the kind of assistance New Jersey lawmakers granted the week before to a competitor, Orsted, which has approval to build two of the state's three approved offshore wind farms. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

U.S. gives go-ahead for Orsted’s New Jersey offshore wind farm to start construction

By Wayne Parry - Associated Press

President Joe Biden sits with California Gov. Gavin Newsom while they listen to speakers at the Lucy Evans Baylands Nature Interpretive Center and Preserve in Palo Alto, California, on Monday, June 19, 2023. Newsom has pursued an aggressive climate policy as governor, including committing to spend tens of billions of dollars over the next few years on environmental projects and programs. But his proposals have been met with criticism by some environmental groups, who say they don't do enough to protect the state's threatened species and fragile ecosystems. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s climate agenda highlights tensions with environmental groups

By Adam Beam - Associated Press

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sign outside the Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Center, Friday, Feb. 17, 2023, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Top oil lobbyist blasts Biden’s ‘de facto ban’ on gas-powered vehicles

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Climate activists rally in front of the White House at Lafayette Square to demand that President Biden declare a climate emergency and move the country rapidly away from fossil fuels, Tuesday, July 4, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Yuri Gripas)

Fossil fuel lobbyists buoyed by green groups, liberal climate efforts

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, is seen in the background of the shallow Kakhovka Reservoir after the dam collapse, in Energodar, Russian-occupied Ukraine, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Ukraine and Russia accused each other Wednesday, July 5, 2023, of planning to attack the power plant, which is occupied by Russian troops, but neither side provided evidence to support their claims. (AP Photo/Libkos, File)

Ukraine and Russia trade accusations of imminent attack on Europe’s largest nuclear plant

By Samya Kullab - Associated Press

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, workers clean up silt and mud along a street in the Wanzhou district of Chongqing, China, Tuesday, July 4, 2023. More than a dozen people have been killed by floods in southwestern China as seasonal torrents hit mountain areas, authorities said Wednesday. (Ran Mengjun/Xinhua via AP)

15 killed by floods in southwestern China as seasonal torrents hit mountain areas

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International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Mariano Grossi shakes hands with Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi before their meeting at the Iikura guesthouse in Tokyo, Tuesday, July 4, 2023. The head of the U.N. nuclear agency is in Japan to meet with government leaders Tuesday and to see final preparations for the release of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, on a visit Japan hopes will give credibility to the contentious plan. (Nozomu Endo/Kyodo News via AP)

IAEA chief visits Fukushima before radioactive water is released

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

This photo provided by South Korea's Defense Ministry shows an object salvaged by South Korea's military that is presumed to be part of the North Korean space-launch vehicle that crashed into sea following a launch failure, in West Sea, South Korea, on June 15, 2023. The satellite North Korea failed to put into orbit wasn't advanced enough to conduct military reconnaissance from space as it claimed, South Korea's military said Wednesday, July 5, 2023, after retrieving and studying the wreckage. (South Korea Defense Ministry via AP, File)

North Korean satellite wasn’t advanced enough to conduct reconnaissance from space, Seoul says

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

The Foreign Minister of Greece, Giorgos Gerapetritis, addresses the media during a joint press conference with his counterpart from Cyprus, Constantinos Kombos, at the foreign ministry in Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, July 4, 2023. Garapetritis is in Cyprus for official visit. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Greek foreign minister says Athens is ready for talks with Turkey to resolve sea borders dispute

By Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

Illustration on growing America's biotech capabilities versus China by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

GOP voters want free-market policies for American biotech to beat China’s

By Gerard Scimeca

FILE - Environmental workers put dead fish into bags near the Donana Natural Park, in southern Spain, Monday April 27, 1998, after a dike of a mine reservoir broke dumping 5 million cubic meters (176.55 million cubic feet) of toxic waste outside Seville. In a civil trial that opened Tuesday, July 4, 2023, Spanish authorities are seeking 90 million euros ($98 million) in damages from a Swedish mining company for the major toxic spill near the famed Doñana National Park in 1998. (AP Photo/Jaro Munoz, File)

Spanish authorities seek damages from a Swedish mining company over a major toxic spill 25 years ago

By Ciarán Giles - Associated Press

Brazilian soccer player Neymar watches during the first half of Game 4 of the basketball NBA Finals between the Miami Heat and the Denver Nuggets, Friday, June 9, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Brazil’s Neymar fined in $3.3 million for illegal artificial lake at mansion outside Rio

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A security guard wearing an electric fan on his neck wipes his sweat on a hot day in Beijing, Monday, July 3, 2023. Heavy flooding has displaced thousands of people around China as the capital had a brief respite from sweltering heat. Beijing reported 9.8 straight days when the temperature exceeded 35 C (95 F), the National Climate Center said Monday. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Flooding displaces 10,000 around China as Beijing gets a relative respite from sweltering heat

Associated Press

A black bear sits in a tree while police attempt to keep it in place until wildlife authorities can arrive on scene in the residential Brookland neighborhood in Northeast Washington, in Washington, Friday, June 9, 2023. The bear was eventually tranquilized by the Humane Rescue Alliance and taken away in a cage by the Smithsonian's National Zoo. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Maine woman punches bear in nose while defending her dog

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times