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In this aerial image provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, fissure 3 is seen erupting on the Northeast Rift Zone of Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. The world's largest volcano continues to erupt but scientists say lava is no longer feeding the flow front that has been creeping toward a crucial highway. That means the flow isn't advancing and is no longer an imminent threat to the road that connects the east and west sides of the Big Island. (U.S. Geological Survey via AP)

Scientists say eruption of Hawaii volcano continues to ease

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Climate activist Greta Thunberg attends the weekly Fridays for Future demonstration at the Mynttorget square next to the Swedish Parliament Riksdagen, in Stockholm, Sweden, Friday, Nov. 11, 2022. (Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency via AP)

Study: Greta Thunberg has made climate a bigger issue among Norwegian youth

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

A long row of double-stacked shipping contrainers provide a new wall between the United States and Mexico in the remote section area of San Rafael Valley, Ariz., Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Work crews are steadily erecting hundreds of double-stacked shipping containers along the rugged east end of Arizona’s boundary with Mexico as Republican Gov. Doug Ducey makes a bold show of border enforcement even as he prepares to step aside next month for Democratic Governor-elect Katie Hobbs. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Arizona Gov. Ducey stacks containers on border at term’s end

By Anita Snow and Ross D. Franklin - Associated Press

FILE - Commissioner Lambert C. Boissiere III, is running for Louisiana Public Service Commissioner, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022 in baton Rouge, La.. In the Deep South, a typically lackluster multi-parish race for a seat on an obscure Louisiana regulatory body has gained national attention this election season. (Travis Spradling/The Advocate via AP)

Environment stakes high in race for Louisiana utility seat

By Sara Cline - Associated Press

A man talks on a phone in his car alongside Saddle Road as the Mauna Loa volcano erupts Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, near Hilo, Hawaii. The world's largest volcano continues to erupt but scientists say lava is no longer feeding the flow front that has been creeping toward a crucial highway. That means the flow isn't advancing and is no longer an imminent threat to the road that connects the east and west sides of the Big Island. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Lava flow from Mauna Loa volcano on Hawaii stalls out before reaching major highway

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

This undated photo provided by SavrPak shows one of the California-based company's chemical-free, biodegradable packets that control moisture inside the package and fend off external moisture. A growing number of agri-tech companies are using science to try to extend the life of produce -- and help prevent food waste. (AP Photo via SavrPak)

Fight to curb food waste increasingly turns to science

By Dee-Ann Durbin - Associated Press

Rescuers and workers wait at the entrance of a coal mine during the search for victims after an explosion Friday, Dec. 9, 2022, in Sawahlunto, West Sumatra, Indonesia. A number of people died in the explosion. (AP Photo/Devanya Zianisa)

10 miners killed in Indonesia coal mine explosion, 4 rescued

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Serena, a dugong, swims at the Toba Aquarium in Toba, Japan on Sept. 5, 2012. Populations of the vulnerable species of marine mammal, numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction, an international conservation organization said Friday, Dec. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Linda Lombardi, File)

Manatee cousin, abalone among new species facing extinction

By Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

Amazon Flex driver James Fowler holds an empty Amazon bag he uses for cold goods next to his car in Vancouver, Wash., Monday, March 13, 2017. He earns $18 to $25 per hour working through the service, delivering packages and other goods. (Ariane Kunze/The Columbian via AP)

Amazon again accused of withholding tips from its delivery drivers in D.C. attorney general lawsuit

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks at a news conference during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Great Reset coming fast and furious for the farmers, for food

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Republicans are praising investment goliath Vanguard Group for pulling out of the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative, the world’s largest climate alliance in the financial industry, amid fierce pressure from conservative lawmakers. (File Photo credit: Jarretera via Shutterstock)

Investment giant Vanguard calls it quits with net-zero climate alliance, drawing GOP cheers

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Coast Guard says ship pilot was texting, talking on phone before vessel ran aground in Chesapeake

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

GM plans to build over 40,000 electric vehicle chargers, mostly in rural areas

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

A man talks on a phone in his car alongside Saddle Road as the Mauna Loa volcano erupts Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, near Hilo, Hawaii. Officials monitoring the Mauna Loa eruption on Hawaii's Big island said Wednesday, Dec. 7, the lava flow moving toward state Route 200 has slowed. They said they could not predict when, where or if the lava flow would cross the highway. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Crucial Hawaii road in limbo as Mauna Loa lava continues to crawl

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks during a news conference Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, at the Capitol in Washington. President Joe Biden on Saturday was criticized by Manchin for being “cavalier” and “divorced from reality” the day after vowing to shuttered coal fired electric plants and lean heavier on wind and solar energy in the future. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Defense bill excludes Manchin’s energy policy opposed by Democrats

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

In this image taken from footage provided by the RU-RTR Russian television on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022, journalists and Interdistrict Environmental Prosecutor's Office employees walk near the bodies of dead seals on shore of the Caspian Sea, Dagestan. A top Russian environmental official said Monday that the thousands of dead seals that washed up on Russia's Caspian Sea coast likely died from oxygen deprivation. (RU-RTR Russian Television via AP, File)

Russia: Mass seal death likely due to oxygen deprivation

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A man looks on as Mount Semeru releases volcanic materials during an eruption on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022 in Lumajang, East java, Indonesia. Indonesia’s highest volcano on the country’s most densely populated island of Java erupted Sunday. (AP Photo)

Mount Semeru unleashes lava river in new eruption in Indonesia

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This photo released by Xinhua News Agency shows an image captured off the screen at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China showing the manned spaceship Shenzhou-15 conducting a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the space station's Tianhe module on Nov. 30, 2022. Three Chinese astronauts docked early Wednesday with their country's space station, where they will overlap for several days with the three-member crew already onboard and expand the facility to its maximum size. (Guo Zhongzheng/Xinhua via AP)

Space race 2.0: China is building weapons to attack U.S. ‘ground, sea, or air targets from orbit’

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2019, file photo, smoke and steam rise from a coal processing plant in Hejin in central China's Shanxi Province. China and U.S. had a “very good year” for collaboration on dealing with climate change, but Washington is still pushing Beijing to adopt more ambitious carbon reduction goals, the top U.S. diplomat in China says. (AP Photo/Olivia Zhang, File)

China no longer warrants a free pass for carbon emissions

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

In this undated photo, provided by Scott Groth, Groth, a diver, holds a sunflower sea star in waters off the Oregon coast near Port Orford, Ore., before the invasion of purple sea urchins. The sunflower sea star is the primary predator of the purple sea urchin and urchin numbers exploded when a mysterious wasting disease killed off millions of the sea stars beginning in 2013. Tens of millions of voracious purple sea urchins that have already chomped their way through towering underwater kelp forests in California are now spreading north to Oregon, sending the delicate marine ecosystem off the shore into such disarray that other critical species are starving to death. (Scott Groth via AP)

Scientists call for action to help sunflower sea stars

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