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Crews of first responders attend to beached dolphins in Sea Isle, N.J. on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (WPVI via AP)

2 dolphins die and 6 euthanized after stranding themselves on Jersey Shore beach

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Planet Earth. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Asteroid as big as 310 feet in diameter to pass by Earth

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Hywind Scotland, the world's first commercial wind farm using floating wind turbines, is visible off the coast of Scotland in August 2017. Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, marks the first-ever U.S. auction for leases to develop commercial-scale floating wind farms in the deep waters off the West Coast. (Woldcam/Equinor via AP)

House Republicans want to pause offshore wind projects

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Illustration on Biden policy and the price of gasoline by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Biden’s latest fuel proposal promises to drive gasoline prices higher

By Derrick Morgan

A coyote ambles among cactus and other plants within the proposed site of Avi Kwa Ame National Monument on March 1, 2022, near Searchlight, Nev. President Joe Biden is establishing national monuments in Nevada and Texas and creating a marine sanctuary southwest of Hawaii. Biden will announce the measures Tuesday at a White House summit on conservation action at the Interior Department. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, File)

Biden creates national monuments in Nevada, Texas

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Rescue worker unload earthquake victims from an ambulance at a hospital in Saidu Sharif, a town Pakistan's Swat valley, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. A magnitude 6.5 earthquake rattled much of Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday, sending panicked residents fleeing from homes and offices and frightening people even in remote villages. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)

11 killed as strong earthquake rattles Pakistan, Afghanistan

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Strong earthquake rattles Pakistan, residents flee homes

Associated Press

Demonstraters protest against the Biden administration's approval of the Willow oil-drilling project before a scheduled speech by Biden at the Department of the Interior in Washington, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden faces green revolt by climate protesters angry over his action on Willow oil-drilling project

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

People get drinking water from a water collecting point at a slum area, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. World Water Day will be observed on March 22, to aim to highlight the importance of freshwater and advocate for sustainable management of this vital resource. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

U.N.: 26% of world lacks clean drinking water, 46% sanitation

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Women push wheelbarrows atop a coal mine dump at the coal-powered Duvha power station, near Emalahleni east of Johannesburg, Nov. 17, 2022. Humanity still has a chance, close to the last one, to prevent the worst of climate change’s future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists said Monday, March 20, 2023. But doing so requires quickly slashing carbon pollution and fossil fuel use. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)

U.N. doomsday report warns of ‘climate time-bomb’ unless globe ditches fossil fuels

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

People arrive at a displacement camp on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia, Sept. 21, 2022, amid a drought. A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid the longest drought on record in Somalia last year and half of them likely were children. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

43,000 estimated dead in Somalia drought last year: Report

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

A usually submerged section of the lake Serre-Poncon is dry in southern France, March 14, 2023. Publication of a major new United Nations report on climate change is being held up by a battle between rich and developing countries over emissions targets and financial aid to vulnerable nations. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File)

Fight over science holds up key UN climate report

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

Dead fishes drift in the Oder River near Brieskow-Finkenheerd, eastern Germany, on Aug. 11, 2022. Greenpeace environmental group said Thursday, March 2, 2023 that waste water discharge from Poland’s coal mines were most probably responsible for the 2022 massive fish die-off in the Oder River. Greenpeace Poland also warned that the situation may reoccur this year and also hit Poland's largest river, the Vistula, if the government and the coalmining industry don't take immediate steps to counter the problem. The fish die-out was blamed on deadly algae, Prymnesium parvum, that thrive in highly salty water and in hot temperatures. (Frank Hammerschmidt/dpa via AP)

Millions of dead fish wash up amid heat wave in Australia

Associated Press

Men transport their salvaged belongings in Chiradzulu, southern Malawi, Friday March 17, 2023. Authorities are still getting to grips with the scale of Cyclone Freddy's destruction in Malawi and Mozambique since late Saturday, with over 300 people confirmed dead and several hundreds still displaced or missing. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

Death toll rises, locals pick up pieces after Cyclone Freddy

By Wanjohi Kabukuru and Vitus-Gregory Gondwe - Associated Press

A sign marks Navajo Drive, as Sentinel Mesa, homes and other structures in Oljato-Monument Valley, Utah, on the Navajo Reservation, stand in the distance, on April 30, 2020. The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide a critical water rights case in the water-scarce Southwest. The high court will hold oral arguments Monday, March 20, 2023, in a case with critical implications for how water from the drought-stricken Colorado River is shared and the extent of the U.S. government’s obligations to Native American tribes. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Feds want justices to end Navajo fight for Colo. River water

By Michael Phillis - Associated Press

A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern trains, Feb. 6, 2023. The Ohio attorney general said Tuesday, March 14, that the state filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern to make sure it pays for the cleanup and environmental damage caused by a fiery train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last month. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

EPA tells states not to block waste from Ohio derailment

By John Seewer - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021, security personnel clear the way for a convoy of the World Health Organization team to enter the Huanan Seafood Market on the third day of field visit in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. International scientists have examined previously unavailable genetic data from samples collected at a market in China close to where the first human cases of COVID-19 were detected and said they have found suggestions the pandemic originated from animals, not a lab. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market

By Dake Kang and Maria Cheng - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, file photo, the Nest smoke and carbon monoxide alarm is shown at the company's offices, in Palo Alto, Calif. Google said Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, it will pay $3.2 billion to buy Nest Labs, which develops high-tech versions of devices like thermostats and smoke detectors. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Consumer Product Safety Commission issues warning for two carbon monoxide detectors sold on Amazon

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 21, 2017, file photo, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building is shown in Washington. Two high-ranking Trump political appointees at the EPA engaged in fraudulent payroll activities, including payments to employees after they were fired and to one of the officials when he was absent from work, that cost the agency more than $130,000, a report by an internal watchdog says. Former chief of staff Ryan Jackson and former White House liaison Charles Munoz submitted “official timesheets and personnel forms that contained materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements&quot; to mislead EPA personnel and facilitate improper payments over multiple months, according to a report by EPA’s Office of Inspector General. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Watch ‘Top of the Times’ with Tim Constantine: Biden wants 2,400 new EPA employees

Illustration on nuclear and hydropower clean energy by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Major investments in fission are key to decarbonizing our future

By Yechezkel Moskowitz and Vik Singh