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Coral on Moore Reef is visible in Gunggandji Sea Country off the coast of Queensland in eastern Australia on Nov. 13, 2022. The United Nations body that regulates the world’s ocean floor is preparing to resume negotiations in July 2023, that could open the international seabed for mining, including for materials vital for the green energy transition. Conservationists worry that ecosystems will be damaged by mining, especially without any environmental protocols. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil, File)

Deep sea mining permits may be coming soon. What are they and what might happen?

By Victoria Milko - Associated Press

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

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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

Don Sakis checks the fire in his Riteway wood stove at his home on Jan. 23, 2018, in Palmer, Alaska. Sakis and his family have heated their home with the stove for 35 years. Attorneys general from 10 states plan to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, alleging the agency's testing and certification program for home wood heaters is ineffective — raising health concerns — and that EPA has failed to undertake a timely review of performance standards for new heaters. (Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

10 states plan to sue EPA over standards for residential wood-burning stoves

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A sign warns that fire danger is high in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains that border Albuquerque, N.M., on Friday, June 30, 2023. U.S. Forest Service managers are urging people to use glow sticks and cans of aerosol party string as alternatives to fireworks, but some environmentalists say the string is difficult to clean up and should not be used out in nature. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

U.S. forest managers urge revelers to swap fireworks for Silly String, but some say not so fast

By Susan Montoya Bryan - Associated Press

The sun sets behind land-based wind turbines in Atlantic City N.J. on Feb. 10, 2022. The U.S. Government Accountability Office on Thursday, June 15, 2023, agreed to look into the potential impacts of offshore wind energy development on the U.S. East Coast, fulfilling a long time demand from opponents of such projects. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

Tax break for offshore wind developer Orsted gets blowback in New Jersey Legislature

By Wayne Parry - Associated Press

Norma Hicks walks down Linden Avenue with an umbrella to protect her from the sun in Memphis, Tenn., on Thursday, June 29, 2023. As dangerous heat and humidity smothered parts of the South and Midwest on Thursday, local governments and charities worked to protect poor and elderly residents by opening cooling stations and delivering donated air conditioners. (Chris Day/The Commercial Appeal via AP)

Heat waves like the one that’s killed 14 in the southern U.S. becoming more frequent and enduring

By Anita Snow - Associated Press

Environmental activists protest against the Japanese government's decision to release treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, near a building which houses the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, June 30, 2023. The letters read, "Radioactive water in ground facilities." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

U.N. nuclear agency chief to visit Fukushima plant to see final plans for release of wastewater

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Fires show need for permitting reform

People wait outside their homes following an earthquake in Bantul district, outside Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Friday, June 30, 2023. A strong earthquake shook parts of Indonesia's main island of Java on Friday, causing panic but no immediate reports of serious damage or casualties.(AP Photo/Mahmud)

5.8 magnitude earthquake shakes Indonesia’s main island, damaging several buildings

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Britain's Minister of State for Environment and International Development Zac Goldsmith arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019. A British environment minister who is close to former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has quit and accused the current government of apathy towards climate issues. Zac Goldsmith said Friday, June 30, 2023, that he could no longer do his job because Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is “simply uninterested” in the environment. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, file)

Boris Johnson ally quits U.K. government with a blast at Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Crews construct a section of border wall in San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, in Douglas, Ariz. President Biden on Wednesday ordered a &quot;pause&quot; on all wall construction within a week, one of 17 executive edicts issued on his first day in office, including six dealing with immigration. The order leaves projects across the border unfinished and under contract after Trump worked feverishly last year to reach 450 miles, a goal he announced was achieved eight days before leaving office. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Biden is forced to build Trump’s border wall

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE -In this Feb. 25, 2015 photo, a pump jack for pulling oil from the ground is seen near New Town, N.D. The Biden administration has reached a legal settlement requiring officials to re-examine potential climate damages from oil and gas leases in Montana and North Dakota that were put up for sale under the Trump administration. The settlement involves public lands totaling 91 square miles. It was detailed in documents filed Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022 in U.S. District Court in Montana. (AP Photo/Matthew Br, File)

Biden’s radical climate agenda is hurting families and robbing America of its independence

By Carla Sands

Ukrainian emergency workers wearing radiation protection suits disinfect a man from radiation during training in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, June 29, 2023. The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Europe's biggest, relies in large part on water from the now-emptying reservoir at the Kakhovka dam. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine holds drills in Zaporizhzhia to prepare for radiation leaks from Russian-held nuclear plant

By Vasilisa Stepanenko - Associated Press

U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, center, confers during a stocktaking plenary session at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) ** FILE **

Gas giants: Biden team spewed greenhouse gases by flying 400 people to climate talks

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A haze is seen from Canadian wildfires June 27, 2023, in Whitefish Bay, Wis. Forecasters say there won’t be large breaks for much of America anytime soon from eye-watering dangerous smoke from fire-struck Canada. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

D.C. residents urged to stay indoors as Canadian wildfire smoke worsens on the East Coast

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

An Ethiopian woman scoops up portions of wheat to be allocated to each waiting family after it was distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on May 8, 2021. The United States humanitarian agency told The Associated Press it is horrified by conditions in Ethiopia, where local officials have reported hundreds of hunger deaths in recent weeks after the U.S. and the United Nations paused food aid for one-sixth of the country's population over massive theft of the aid. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

U.S. says it’s horrified by conditions in Ethiopia after theft leads to food aid pause and deaths

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In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force, Capt. Ryan Vickers stands for a photo to display his new service tapes after taking his oath of office to transfer from the U.S. Air Force to the U.S. Space Force at Al-Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. The U.S. Air Force abruptly changed its procedures to select a permanent headquarters for the U.S. Space Command during the election year of 2020, which led to it choosing heavily Republican Alabama over Democrat-dominated Colorado after a White House meeting, according to a report from the General Accounting Office that was made public Thursday, June 2, 2022. (Staff Sgt. Kayla White/U.S. Air Force via AP, File)

Space Force urgently needs counterspace weapons to deter war with China, new study finds

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Plaintiffs suing the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to stop its approval of a controversial redevelopment plan for a historic and beloved park area, march into the Tokyo District Court in Tokyo, Thursday, June 29, 2023. A banner reads, “Please do not cut 1,000 trees at Jingu Gaien.” Critics of the planned redevelopment of the beloved centuries-old Tokyo park and historic sports stadiums accused the government in court on Thursday of ignoring the wishes of residents and catering to commercial interests. (AP Photo/Haruka Nuga)

Critics of Tokyo redevelopment plan accuse city government of ignoring residents’ wishes

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

A driver gets into his car at an electric vehicle charging station outside of a Tesla dealership in Beijing, Saturday, June 24, 2023. Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure "white gold" in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Most Americans give thumbs down to Biden EV goals, ending gas-powered vehicles

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times