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This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Fiona in the Caribbean on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022. The eye of newly formed Hurricane Fiona is near the coast of Puerto Rico — and it has already sparked an island-wide blackout and threatens to dump “historic” levels of rain. (NOAA via AP)

Hurricane Fiona makes landfall in powerless Puerto Rico

By Danica Coto - Associated Press

A man sits in front of a beach watching as the waves break before the arrival of Tropical Storm Fiona in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. Fiona was expected to become a hurricane as it neared Puerto Rico on Saturday, threatening to dump up to 20 inches (51 centimeters) of rain as people braced for potential landslides, severe flooding and power outages. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)

Hurricane threat as Tropical Storm Fiona aims at Puerto Rico

By Dánica Coto - Associated Press

Displaced families, who fled their flood-hit homes, jostle to get relief aid distributed by soldiers of Pakistan rangers, in Dera Allahyar, in Jaffarabad, a district of southwestern Balochistan province, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. The devastating floods affected over 33 million people and displaced over half a million people who are still living in tents and make-shift homes. The water has destroyed 70% of wheat, cotton and other crops in Pakistan. (AP Photo/Zahid Hussain)

WHO raises alarm on disease in flood-hit areas of Pakistan

By Zarar Khan - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Terry Gunn, Lehman Beardsley, left, and Gunn, who guides fishing trips, pose with a rainbow trout at Lees Ferry near Marble Canyon, Ariz., Nov 7, 1987. As Lake Powell reservoir just upstream declines, it sends warmer water with less oxygen into the river below the dam. Should that water reach 73 degrees, Gunn said his family's guide service may start calling off afternoon trips. (Courtesy of Terry Gunn via AP)

On the Colorado River, growing concern for trout and chub

By Brittany Peterson - Associated Press

This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Tropical Storm Fiona in the Caribbean on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. Fiona threatened to dump up to 16 inches (41 centimeters) of rain in parts of Puerto Rico on Saturday as forecasters placed the U.S. territory under a hurricane watch and people braced for potential landslides, severe flooding and power outages. (NOAA via AP)

Puerto Rico under hurricane warning as TS Fiona approaches

By Danica Coto - Associated Press

A cheetah lies inside a transport cage at the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in Otjiwarongo, Namibia, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. The CCF will travel to India this week to deliver eight wild cheetahs to the Kuno National Park in India. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich)

Cheetahs make a comeback in India after 70 years

By Aniruddha Ghosal and Sibi Arasu - Associated Press

Crops are irrigated in Moab, Utah, Thursday, July 15, 2021. Compared to major cities neighboring states, Utah is less dependent on water from the Colorado River. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

Desert farms in Utah flourish with water from Colorado River

By Zak Podmore - Associated Press

Nick Gann fishes in Firehole Canyon Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, on the far northeastern shore of Flaming Gorge Reservoir, in Wyoming. A boating and fishing paradise on the Utah-Wyoming line, Flaming Gorge is beginning to feel the effects of the two-decade megadrought gripping the southwestern U.S. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Flaming Gorge falls as drought felt higher up Colorado River

By Mead Gruver - Associated Press

This photo provided by NASA shows a rock collected by the Perseverance rover on Mars. NASA is launching two more mini helicopters to Mars in its effort to recover Martian rocks and soil samples and bring them to Earth.Under the plan announced Wednesday, July 27, 2022, NASA’s Perseverance rover will do double duty and transport samples to the rocket that will launch them off Mars a decade from now.Perseverance already has gathered 11 samples, with about 30 more to go. The most recent sample, a sedimentary rock, holds the greatest promise of containing possible evidence of ancient Martian life, according to Arizona State University's Meenakshi Wadhwa, chief scientist for the retrieval program. (NASA via AP) **FILE**

NASA Rover discovery suggests life could have survived on Mars

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

This image provided by the National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurricane Center/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows a satellite view over Alaska, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022. A vast swath of western Alaska could see flooding and high winds as the remnants of Typhoon Merbok move toward the Bering Sea region. The National Weather Service had in place coastal flood warnings, beginning Friday, spanning from parts of the Yukon Delta in southwest Alaska up to St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea and to the Bering Strait coast. (NOAA via AP)

Alaska braces for its worst storm in a decade as typhoon remnants batter coast

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Displaced families who fled their flood-hit homes take refuge along a roadside in Jamshoro, southern Sindh province, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. The devastating floods affected over 33 million people and displaced over half a million people who are still living in tents and make-shift homes. The water has destroyed 70% of wheat, cotton and other crops in Pakistan. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih)

Water begins receding in Pakistan’s worst flood-hit south

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

In this file photo, residents line up for Covid-19 tests near a banner with the words 'Epidemic is the Order' in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. China's worst coronavirus outbreak since the start of the pandemic a year and a half ago escalated Wednesday with dozens more cases around the country, the sealing-off of one city and the punishment of its local leaders. (Chinatopix Via AP) **FILE**

Medical review: Government leaders failed in COVID response, were slow, uncoordinated, untrustworthy

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

An Amtrak passenger train and a freight train head northbound towards downtown Chicago Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022, in Chicago. Business and government officials are preparing for a potential nationwide rail strike at the end of this week while talks carry on between the largest U.S. freight railroads and their unions. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

From carmakers to refiners, industries brace for rail strike

Associated Press

President Joe Biden steps from Air Force One as he and first lady Jill Biden arrive at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Del., Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022, to travel to Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Car guy Biden to tout electric vehicles at Detroit auto show

By Colleen Long and Tom Krisher - Associated Press

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, speaks during a joint press conference with Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. Guterres appealed to the world for help for cash-strapped Pakistan after arriving in the country Friday to see the climate-induced devastation from months of deadly record floods. (AP Photo/W.K. Yousafzai)

U.N. chief and Russia’s Putin discuss war in Ukraine

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Biden's Energy Crisis Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Biden’s energy crisis is helping our enemies and destroying rural America

By Rep. Mary Miller

In this Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021 file photo, emissions rise from the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the suns sets, near Emmett, Kansas, United States. The world needs to more than halve production of coal, oil and gas in the coming decade to maintain a chance of keeping global warming from reaching dangerous levels, according to a U.N.-backed study released Wednesday. The report published by the U.N. Environment Program found that while governments have made ambitious pledges to curb greenhouse gas emissions, they are still planning to extract double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030than what would be consistent withthe 2015 Paris climate accords goal of keeping global temperature rise below 1.5 Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

House Dems accused of ‘bogus’ investigation into public relations firms for gas and oil industry

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

The squirrels in Mears Park in St. Paul, Minn., like this one on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021, are fat, bold, and accustomed to being fed by people. They have been chewing through wires on the Christmas lights, so Mears Park isn't lit up as usual this holiday season. (Scott Takushi/Pioneer Press via AP)

Squirrel causes power outage for 9,500 customers in Minneapolis

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Atala Butterfly on a flower with soft background (File photo credit: DesiDrewPhotography via Shutterstock)

Popular Florida garden plant revives near-extinct butterfly population

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Climate Change Gravy Train Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Under the guise of inclusion, Biden’s policies lead to climate delusion

By Hannah Davis