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This illustration made available by Johns Hopkins APL and NASA depicts NASA's DART probe, foreground right, and Italian Space Agency's (ASI) LICIACube, bottom right, at the Didymos system before impact with the asteroid Dimorphos, left. DART is expected to zero in on the asteroid Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, intent on slamming it head-on at 14,000 mph. The impact should be just enough to nudge the asteroid into a slightly tighter orbit around its companion space rock. (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP)

NASA spacecraft closes in on asteroid for head-on collision

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

In this image made from a NASA livestream, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft crashes into an asteroid on Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. (ASI/NASA via AP)

NASA’s DART successfully rams asteroid in attempt to alter space rock’s course

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

Villager women empty their cotton filled shawls on a pile after collecting it from cotton crops, which was damaged by floodwaters due to heavy monsoon rains, in Tando Jam near Hyderabad, a district of southern Sindh province, Pakistan, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. Nearly three months after causing widespread destruction in Pakistan's crop-growing areas, flood waters are receding in the country, enabling some survivors to return home. The unprecedented deluges have wiped out the only income source for millions, with officials and experts saying the floods damaged 70% of the country's crops. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih)

Pakistan floods raise fears of hunger after crops wrecked

By Munir Ahmed and Muhammad Farooq - Associated Press

A worker cooks burgers at Zing Burger store in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Richard Kovacs, a business development manager for the Hungarian burger chain, said some of the chain's 15 stores have seen a 750% increase in electricity bills since the beginning of the year — leading to additional monthly costs of up to 1.5 million Hungarian forints ($3,840) per store. (AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi)

Lights out, ovens off: Europe preps for winter energy crisis

By David McHugh, Justin Spike, Karel Janicek and Veselin Toshkov - Associated Press

FILE - Water pipes leading to the cooling system of Pacific Gas &amp; Electrics Colusa Generating Station near Maxwell, Calif., on Nov. 15, 2011. The utility on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, outlined a plan to achieve climate goals including net-zero emissions by 2040. The report says natural gas plants like the Colusa generating station are likely to remain online but produce 40% less emissions by 2030 compared to 2015 levels. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California proposes ban on natural gas heaters by 2030

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

A Pakistani patient suffering from dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease, is treated in an isolation ward, at a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. Pakistan has deployed thousands of additional doctors and paramedics in the country's worst flood-hit province to contain the spread of diseases that have killed hundreds of people among the flood victims, officials said Friday. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

World Bank pledges $2 billion for flood-ravaged Pakistan

By Zabar Khan - Associated Press

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., listens to a reporter's question during a news conference Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Manchin suggests lawmakers will face regret if they don’t back his energy permitting proposal

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Simon Stiell sits for an interview to discuss his new role as the executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022, at U.N. headquarters. Stiell was the environment and climate resilience minister on the small island nation of Grenada until a few weeks ago. It’s now his job to make sure the world cuts about half emissions of heat-trapping gases — which are helping trigger unprecedented frequent weather disasters — in just eight years, or, as he puts it, two World Cups or two Olympics away. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Interview: New UN climate chief takes the fight personally

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

A pedestrian shields themselves with an umbrella while walking along the Halifax waterfront as rain falls ahead of Hurricane Fiona making landfall in Halifax, Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. (Darren Calabrese /The Canadian Press via AP)

Fiona knocks out power with strong winds in Atlantic Canada

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan announces a new federal office of environmental justice at a ceremony in Warrenton, N.C., on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)

Biden administration launches environmental justice office

By Hannah Schoenbaum - Associated Press

Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Live updates: U.N. General Assembly

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Nancy Galarza looks at the damage that Hurricane Fiona inflicted on her community, which remained cut off four days after the Category 1 storm slammed the rural community of San Salvador in the town of Caguas, Puerto Rico, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Danica Coto)

Puerto Ricans seething over lack of power days after Fiona

By Dánica Coto - Associated Press

This satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Tropical Storm Ian over the central Caribbean on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. (NOAA via AP)

DeSantis declares emergency as storm expected to hit Florida

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Police car lights. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Shoebert the seal surrenders to police after a week on the run in Massachusetts pond

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

David Malpass, president of the World Bank Group, arrives for a meeting with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at Kishida's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 13, 2022. Malpass said Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, that he will not resign after coming under criticism for his remarks earlier this week regarding climate change. (Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP, File)

World Bank president says he’s not a climate denier, won’t resign

By Christopher Rugaber - Associated Press

Whales are stranded on Ocean Beach at Macquarie Harbour on the west coast of Tasmania of Australia, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Two more whales died Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, in Australia after a handful that had been refloated a day earlier stranded themselves again. About 200 pilot whales have now died from a group of about 230 that stranded themselves this week on the wild and remote west coast of Tasmania. (Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania via AP)

2 more whales die in Australia as stranding deaths reach 200

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The Colorado River flows through the Grand Canyon on the Hualapai reservation on Aug. 15, 2022, in northwestern Arizona. The consequences of drought and efforts to funnel billions of dollars toward securing water supplies in the West are becoming larger issues in two of the most consequential races for the U.S. Senate. In Nevada and Arizona, cities and farmers are facing cuts as the Colorado River dwindles. (AP Photo/John Locher) **FILE**

West looks to create water as drought tests limits of conservation

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 2, 2005, photo, turkeys are seen at a turkey farm near Sauk Centre, Minn. Bird flu has returned to Midwest earlier than authorities expected after a lull of several months, the Minnesota Board of Animal Health said Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, The highly pathogenic disease was detected in a commercial turkey flock in Meeker County of western Minnesota after the farm reported an increase in mortality last weekend. Tests confirmed the disease Tuesday evening. The flock was euthanized to stop the spread. (AP Photo/Janet Hostetter) **FILE**

Bird flu and related cullings have turkey prices flying sky-high

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

FILE - Mink look out from a pen at a breeding farm near Naestved, Denmark, Friday Nov. 6, 2020. Denmark's government said, Friday, Sept. 23, 2022 that a temporary ban on mink breeding will expire Jan. 1, allowing mink production to resume in the country but at a ”significantly reduced&quot; level than before the coronavirus pandemic. The Danish government nearly two years ago ordered a cull of millions of minks to minimize the risk of the small mammals retransmitting the virus.(Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)

Denmark to allow ‘significantly reduced’ mink production

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., questions Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen as she testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Senate Republicans seek to stop federal agencies from banning lead ammo on public lands

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times