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A seismograph report at Lick Observatory shows the readout of a magnitude 5.1 earthquake east of San Jose, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group via AP) ** FILE **

Earthquake strikes off the coast of California in the North Pacific, not a tsunami threat

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

FILE - Lobster fishermen work at sunrise in the Atlantic Ocean, Sept. 8, 2022, off of Kennebunkport, Maine. Scientists, lawyers and government officials are gathered in Jamaica the week of Nov. 1, 2022 to debate deep sea mining as part of a two-week conference organized by the International Seabed Authority, an independent body created by a United Nations treaty. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Hunt for deep sea minerals draws scrutiny amid green push

By Dánica Coto - Associated Press

Activist Greta Thunberg takes part in a Fridays For Future school strike for climate and social justice march through Stockholm, Friday, March 25, 2022. Climate activists staged a tenth series of worldwide protests Friday to demand leaders take stronger action against global warming, with some linking their environmental message to calls for an end to the war in Ukraine. (Paul Wennerholm/TT via AP)

Biden in, Greta Thunberg out: Stage set for infighting at U.N. climate summit in Egypt

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Rescuers on boats search in the Machchu river next to a cable suspension bridge that collapsed in Morbi town of western state Gujarat, India, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. The century-old cable suspension bridge collapsed into the river Sunday evening, sending hundreds plunging in the water, officials said. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Nine arrested after bridge collapses in India, killing 134

By Ajit Solanki, Aijaz Hussain and Krutika Pathi and Sheikh Saaliq - Associated Press

A customer pumps gas at an Exxon gas station, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, in Miami. U.S. consumers were less confident this month as concerns about inflation took hold again after receding in recent months. The Conference Board reported Tuesday, Oct. 25, that its consumer confidence index fell to 102.5 in October, from 107 in September. The American consumer had grown more confident in the past couple months as rising gas prices moderated slightly even as prices for other essential items have remained elevated. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Biden offers windfall tax on Big Oil for Dems desperate to calm voters’ fears of high energy prices

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Chickens walk in a fenced pasture at an organic farm near Waukon, Iowa on Oct. 21, 2015. The bird flu outbreak that led to the deaths of millions of chickens and turkeys in the U.S. in 2022 appears to finally be waning, but experts caution the virus hasn't disappeared and another surge in cases is possible this fall. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) **FILE**

U.K. orders all England’s poultry kept in to fight bird flu

Associated Press

Traffic builds up outside terminals at the Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, Friday, July 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

4 workers sickened by gas leak at Los Angeles airport

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Search and rescue work is going on as a cable suspension bridge collapsed in Morbi town of western state Gujarat, India, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. The century-old cable suspension bridge collapsed into the river Sunday evening, sending hundreds plunging in the water, officials said. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

A look at suspension bridge that collapsed in India

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In this June 18, 2019, photo, a plastic recycling company worker sorts out plastic bottles collected for processing at Tokyo Petbottle Recycle Co., Ltd, in Tokyo. Japan has a plastic problem. Single bananas here are sometimes wrapped in plastic. So are individual pieces of vegetables, fruit, pastries, pens and cosmetics. Plastic-wrapped plastic spoons come with every ice cream cup. But as world leaders descend on Osaka for the two-day G20 Summit that starts Friday, June 28, Japan has ambitions to become a world leader in reducing plastic waste. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

‘Plastics are the issue’: Report finds millions of tons of plastics in landfills

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, China's space station lab module Mengtian and the rocket Long March-5B Y4 is transported to the launch area at the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province on Oct. 25, 2022. China has launched the third and final module to complete its permanent space station, realizing a more than decade-long endeavor to maintain a constant crewed presence in orbit. (Tu Haichao/Xinhua via AP)

China launches 3rd and final space station component

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Chickens walk in a fenced pasture at an organic farm in Iowa on Oct. 21, 2015. Iowa agriculture officials said Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, that another commercial egg farm in the state has been infected with bird flu, the first commercial farm case identified since April when a turkey farm was infected. The latest case is in Wright County in north central Iowa, housing about 1.1 million chickens. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) **FILE**

Bird flu infects Iowa egg farm with 1 million chickens

By David Pitt - Associated Press

Rescuers on boats search in the Machchu river next to a cable suspension bridge that collapsed in Morbi town of western state Gujarat, India, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. The century-old cable suspension bridge collapsed into the river Sunday evening, sending hundreds plunging in the water, officials said. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

At least 132 dead after suspension bridge in India collapses

By Ajit Solanki and Krutika Pathi and Sheikh Saaliq - Associated Press

M&M's candy is seen in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Trick or trash: Candy makers grapple with plastic waste

By Dee-Ann Durbin - Associated Press

Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks with the media as he arrives for an EU summit in Brussels on Oct. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, File)

Poland chooses U.S. to build its first nuclear power plant

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A bathtub ring of light minerals shows the high water line of Lake Mead near water intakes on the Arizona side of Hoover Dam at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area Sunday, June 26, 2022, near Boulder City, Nev. The U.S. Interior Department announced, Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, that it will consider revising a set of guidelines for operating two major dams on the Colorado River in the first sign of what could lead to federal action to protect the shrinking reservoirs behind them. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Biden administration offers plans — including doing nothing — for drought-starved Colorado River

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

FILE - A North Atlantic right whale feeds on the surface of Cape Cod Bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass., in this March 28, 2018, file photo. President Joe Biden's administration has made a priority of encouraging offshore wind along the Atlantic coast in waters that are home to the declining North Atlantic right whale. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Feds unveil plan to grow wind power while sparing rare whale

By Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

The contrail of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is seen in the sky, from Pasadena, after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., carrying 53 Starlink satellites into orbit, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/John Antczak)

SpaceX launches 53 satellites into orbit from California

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The Skansen Aquarium's entrance, part of the zoo on Djurgarden island, where a deadly snake escaped on Saturday via a light fixture in the ceiling of its glass enclosure, in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday Oct. 24, 2022. A venomous king cobra which escaped from its home in a Swedish zoo six days ago has been located inside the building where its terrarium is located but has not yet been recaptured, the park said Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP)

Cobra missing for 6 days in Swedish zoo located, still free

Associated Press

We need a plan, not recklessness

Bar-tailed godwits stand on the beach at Marion Bay in Australia's Tasmania state on Feb. 17, 2018. A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a non-stop distance record for migratory birds by flying at least 13,560 kilometers (8,435 miles) from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania, a bird expert said Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. (Eric Woehler via AP)

Alaska-Australia flight could place bird in record books

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press