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A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus tormenting the world remains shrouded in mystery. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Senate GOP report backs Wuhan lab leak as COVID-19 origin

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

This illustration made available by NASA depicts the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission over the red planet. On Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022, NASA announced two of their spacecraft, one on the surface and the other in orbit,. have recorded the biggest meteor strikes and impact craters yet. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

Two NASA spacecraft detect biggest meteor strikes at Mars

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

Wind turbines turn on top of a dump next to the "BP Refinery Scholven" in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Oct. 22, 2022. Spiraling energy costs caused by various economic factors and the Ukraine war could be a turning point toward cleaner energy, the International Energy Agency said in a report Thursday, Oct. 27. It found the global demand for fossil fuels, including coal, oil, and natural gas, is set to peak or plateau in the next few decades. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

U.N. report: Climate pollution reductions ‘highly inadequate’

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects military exercises at an undisclosed location in North Korea on Oct. 8, 2022. South Korea says Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea fires missiles toward sea as U.S. warns over nukes

By Hyung-jin Kim and Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry speaks about the United States' international climate efforts ahead of COP27, the upcoming 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Coronavirus to climate change: Make way for more lockdowns

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Biden Climate Policies Causing Economic Pain Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Left’s climate activism weakening America’s economic prosperity and national security

By Evan Berryhill

Clam digger Scott Lavers paddles his canoe on his way to work on a mudflat exposed by the receding tide, in this Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, file photo in Freeport, Maine. Warming waters and invasive species are threatening a way of life for many in the country's seafood industry. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) **FILE**

Fishermen face shutdowns as warming hurts species

By Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street for the House of Commons for his first Prime Minister's Questions in London, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. Sunak was elected by the ruling Conservative party to replace Liz Truss who resigned. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

U.K. says new PM Rishi Sunak won’t go to U.N. climate conference

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This picture taken on Dec. 24, 2020, shows the entrance of Tempurung Cave in Perak state, about 200km from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Police say about 30 members of a film crew who were trapped in a limestone cave in northern Malaysia during heavy rain, have been rescued. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

30 people rescued after being trapped in Malaysian cave

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Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is seen from around twenty kilometers away in an area in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) **FILE**

Ukraine’s atomic agency says Russia likely preparing a nuclear terror act

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Snow Job Joe and his renewable energy plan Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Biden knows his policies increase energy costs for Americans

By Katie Tubb

Operators work at Enagas regasification plant, the largest LNG plant in Europe, in Barcelona, Spain, on March 29, 2022. Natural gas and electricity prices in Europe have plunged from summer peaks thanks to mild weather and a monthslong scramble to fill gas storage ahead of winter and replace Russian supplies during the war in Ukraine. It's a welcome respite after Russia slashed natural gas flows, triggering an energy crisis that has fueled record inflation and a looming recession. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

Gas crunch eases in Europe — but the respite might not last

By David McHugh - Associated Press

FILE - Giant bucket-wheel excavators extract coal at the controversial RWE Garzweiler surface coal mine near Jackerath, west Germany, Thursday, April 29, 2021. German energy giant RWE says it will phase out the burning of coal by 2030, saving 280 million metric tons of climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions. The decision announced Tuesday will accelerate the closure of some of Europe’s most polluting power plants and a vast lignite strip mine in the west of the country. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

The world is transitioning to fossil fuels

By Vijay Jayaraj

Erbakit Ortabay, 49, an ethnic Kazakh born in Xinjiang, speaks to the Associated Press, in London, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. A Uyghur organization and a human rights group are taking the U.K. government to court to challenge Britain’s failure to block the import of cotton products associated with forced labor and other abuses in China’s far western Xinjiang region. Erbakit Ortabay, said he was detained in internment centers, where he was tortured and beaten, and later forced to work for no pay in a clothing factory. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

UK court to hear Uyghur demands to ban Xinjiang cotton

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Visitors look toward the "Painted Ladies," a row of historical Victorian homes, in front of the San Francisco skyline from Alamo Square Park in San Francisco, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. California officials are bracing for the potential of another drought and an early and more intense wildfire season amid a record-breaking warm and dry February. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Magnitude 5.1 quake strikes in San Francisco Bay Area

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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a media conference at the end of a NATO summit in Madrid, Spain on Thursday, June 30, 2022. North Atlantic Treaty Organization heads of state met for the final day of a NATO summit in Madrid on Thursday. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Biden’s morning after the elections hangover will a be a headache for the Fed

By Peter Morici

Fifth generation farmer Roy Petteway looks at the damage to his citrus grove from the effects of Hurricane Ian on Oct. 12, 2022, in Zolfo Springs, Fla. Agriculture losses in Florida from Hurricane Ian's high winds and drenching rains could reach $1.56 billion, with citrus, cattle, vegetable and melon operations among the hardest hit, the University of Florida reported Tuesday, Oct, 18, in a preliminary estimate. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

Ian’s damage to Florida agriculture as high as $1.8 billion

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A man on the back of a mini truck waves to camera as he leaves after evacuating valuables on the Bay of Bengal coast secure their boats anticipating a storm in Patenga, Chittagong, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Authorities in Bangladesh were evacuating hundreds of thousands of people across its vast coastal region on Monday as a tropical storm quickly approached amid fears of extensive damage. (AP Photo)

At least 24 dead in Bangladesh from tropical storm

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

Future of Climate Cooperation (sponsored)

Future of Climate Cooperation

By Ruslan Edelgeriev