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Lindsey Rodni-Nieman, center, mother of missing 16-year-old Kiely Rodni, listens to law enforcement during a news conference, Tuesday, August 9, 2022, in Truckee, Calif. (Paul Kitagaki Jr./The Sacramento Bee via AP)

Body found in reservoir is Kiely Rodni, autopsy confirms

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In this Feb. 28, 2019 photo, a fossilized footprint from a non-dinosaur reptile, a relative of the modern crocodile, is shown on a paving stone at the Valley Forge National Historical Park in Valley Forge, Pa. A set of 113-million-year-old dinosaur tracks were exposed after a river at Dinosaur Valley National Park in Texas dried up due to extreme drought. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Extreme drought reveals dinosaur tracks in dried-up river bed in Texas

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

The wreck of a ship that sunk during World War II is revealed by the unusually low water level of the River Danube near Vamosszabadi, nortwestern Hungary, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. Researchers of Budapest's ELTE university warned that Hungary faces persistent droughts over the next few decades unless measures are taken to stop climate change. (Csaba Krizsan/MTI via AP)

Nazi ships from WWII surface in Danube River during Europe’s intense drought

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Hyundai, Kia issue recall over tow hitch that can cause electrical fires

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

World's electrical energy future illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Electrical energy future incorporates fusion, geothermal and hydro plants

By Richard W. Rahn

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore speaks during a conversation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) ** FILE **

Doomsday climate disaster mongers Gore and Biden

By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times

Mon Lun pulls a strap to his water stalled car before towing it out of receding flood waters in Dallas, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Heavy rain floods streets across Dallas-Fort Worth area

By Jamie Stengle - Associated Press

Blue tarps serve as roof coverings in Camp Devirel set up by earthquake refugees in Les Cayes, Haiti, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. A year after a magnitude-7.2 quake hit southern Haiti, the hundreds that were left homeless are still living in the same makeshift tents. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Many still seeking food, shelter a year after Haiti quake

By Evens Sanon and Danica Coto - Associated Press

FILE - Flamingoes feed in the popular Berg River estuary in Velddrif, South Africa, Monday Sept. 14, 2020. The alteration of weather patterns like the ongoing drought in east and central Africa chiefly driven by climate change is severely undermining natural water systems devastating livelihoods and now threatening the survival of most of the world’s famed migratory bird species. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht, File)

African migratory birds threatened by hot, dry weather

By Wanjohi Kabukuru - Associated Press

World Food Program chief David Beasley meets with villagers in the village of Wagalla in northern Kenya Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. The United States is stepping up to buy about 150,000 metric tons of grain from Ukraine in the next few weeks for an upcoming shipment of food aid from ports no longer blockaded by war, the World Food Program chief has told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

UN: U.S. buying big Ukraine grain shipment for hungry regions

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

This aerial photo shows Belize-registered cargo ship Xin Hai 99, after a collision, off Kushimoto, Wakayama prefecture, southwestern Japan, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. A Japanese chemical tanker ship crashed into the cargo ship off the coast of southwestern Japan, the coast guard said Saturday.(Kyodo News via AP)

Chemical tanker, cargo ship crash near southwestern Japan

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

Gan Bingdong uses a hose to water plants near a dying chili pepper plant at his farm in Longquan village in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. Drought conditions across a swathe of China from the densely populated east across central farming provinces into eastern Tibet have &quot;significantly increased,&quot; the national weather agency said Saturday. The forecast called for no rain and high temperatures for at least three more days from Jiangsu and Anhui provinces northwest of Shanghai, through Chongqing and Sichuan in the southwest to the eastern part of Tibet. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Chinese farmers struggle as scorching drought wilts crops

By Mark Schieffelbein - Associated Press

A Yellowstone bison lays down on the ground in front of the Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., Wednesday, June 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) **FILE**

Fuel tanker rolls over in Yellowstone, spills 4,800 gallons

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Kelly Anderson shows how dry one of his fields is, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022, in Maricopa, Ariz. Anderson grows specialty crops for the flower industry and leases land to alfalfa farmers whose crops feed cattle at nearby dairy farms. He knows what's at stake as states dither over cuts and expects about half of the area will go unplanted next year, after farmers in the region lose all access to the river. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Crisis looms without big cuts to over-tapped Colorado River

By Sam Metz and Kathleen Ronayne - Associated Press

Mosquito Joe lead technician Damien Ysasi sprays a mixture of essential oil insecticides in a yard in Cascade Township near Grand Rapids, Mich., on July 20, 2022. As climate change widens the insect's range and lengthens its prime season, more Americans are resorting to the booming industry of professional extermination. But the chemical bombardment worries scientists who fear over-use of pesticides is harming pollinators and worsening a growing threat to birds that eat insects. (AP Photo/John Flesher)

Backyard mosquito spraying booms, but may be too deadly

By John Flesher - Associated Press

Britain's Prince William speaks during a meeting with Earthshot prize winners and finalists at the Glasgow Science Center on the sidelines of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 2, 2021. The conservation charity founded by the prince, who launched the Earthshot Prize, keeps its investments in a bank that is one of the world’s biggest backers of fossil fuels. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool, File)

Prince William charity invests in bank tied to fossil fuels

By Ed Davey - Associated Press

A MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft flies at Marine Corps Air Facility at Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Va., on Aug. 3, 2012. Officials say a Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey carrying five Marines crashed in the Southern California desert, Wednesday afternoon, June 8, 2022, during training in a remote area near the community of Glamis in Imperial County. Military officials have yet to release official word on the fate of the five Marines. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari) **FILE**

Air Force, Marines have different opinions on tilt-rotor aircraft safety concerns

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Power System Plants and Grid Problems Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Inflation Reduction Act could threaten U.S. power systems

By Terry Jarrett

In this photo provided by the National Park Service is the Abyss Pool hot spring in the southern part of Yellowstone National Park, Wy., in June 2015. Park officials are investigating after part of a foot, in a shoe, was found floating in the hot spring on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. (Diane Renkin/National Park Service via AP)

Part of a foot, in a shoe, spotted in Yellowstone hot spring

Associated Press

A woman wearing mask walks past construction warning sign during a rainy day in Beijing, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. Some were killed with others missing after a flash flood in western China Thursday, as China faces both summer rains and severe heat and drought in different parts of the country. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

16 dead, 18 missing in flash flood in western China

Associated Press