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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

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This Oct. 1, 2020 file photo shows windmills at a utility plant in Atlantic City, N.J. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that wind power was the second-largest source of electricity on March 29, 2022, surpassing all other energy sources except natural gas. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry, file)

The looming energy trap

By Vladislav Inozemtsev

University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine &amp; Atmospheric Science student diver prepares to go down during a night dive to check on coral spawning as the sun sets, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, in Key Biscayne, Fla. A group of students and scientists were hoping to observe the coral spawn and collect their eggs and sperm, called gametes, to take back to the lab to hopefully fertilize and create new coral that will later be transplanted to help repopulate part of the Florida Reef Tract. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Scientists seek to develop hybrid coral reef off of Miami

By Wilfredo Lee - Associated Press

Beachgoers walk near wind turbines along the coast of Pingtan in Southern China's Fujian province, on Aug. 6, 2022. The world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases are sparring on Twitter over climate policy, with China asking if the U.S. can deliver on the landmark climate legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden this week. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China and U.S. spar over climate on Twitter

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

Clouds cast shadows near wind turbines at a wind farm along the Montana-Wyoming state line on Monday, June 13, 2022. The rush to build wind farms to combat climate change is colliding with preservation of one of the U.S. West's most spectacular predators, the golden eagle. Scientists say the species is teetering on the edge of decline and worry that proliferating wind turbines could push them over the brink. (AP Photo/Emma H. Tobin)

Wind energy boom and golden eagles collide in the U.S. West

By Matthew Brown - Associated Press

This photo provided by University of Georgia graduate research assistant Matt Phillips, shows research technician Hunter Rider of Opelika, Ala., holding a a lake sturgeon with its vacuum-hose-like mouth extended on the Coosa River, on July 14, 2022, at Rome, Ga. The university is making the largest population study of the fish since the state began restocking them in 2002. (Matt Phillips via AP)

Prehistoric fish may spawn in Georgia: 1st time in 50 years

By Janet McConnaughey - Associated Press

A buoy sits high and dry on cracked earth previously under the waters of Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area near Boulder City, Nev., on June 28, 2022. Federal officials on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, are expected to announce water cuts that would further reduce how much Colorado River water some users in the seven U.S. states reliant on the river and Mexico receive. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Winners, losers in water cuts for Western states

By Suman Naishadham - Associated Press

Visitors view the dramatic bend in the Colorado River at the popular Horseshoe Bend in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, in Page, Ariz., on Sept. 9, 2011. Federal officials on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, are expected to announce water cuts that would further reduce how much Colorado River water some users in the seven U.S. states reliant on the river and Mexico receive. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Colorado River cuts expected for Arizona, Nevada and Mexico

By Suman Naishadham and Sam Metz - Associated Press

Water rushes through Lyle Falls in the Klickitat River, a tributary that runs into the Columbia River, on Sunday, June 19, 2022, in Lyle, Wash. For generations, Indigenous people have fished for salmon and trout from scaffolds perched just above the sacred water. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Columbia River’s salmon are at the core of ancient religion

By Deepa Bharath - Associated Press

Reckless energy policies illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Team Biden’s reckless energy policies hurting American families and businesses

By Rep. Garrett Graves and Rick Perry

Employees of N.Y. State Solar, a residential and commercial photovoltaic systems company, install an array of solar panels on a roof, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in the Long Island hamlet of Massapequa, N.Y. Americans are less concerned now about how climate change might impact them personally — and about how their personal choices affect the climate than they were three years ago, according to a according to a June poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Many in U.S. doubt their own impact on climate, AP-NORC poll shows

By Hannah Fingerhut and Nuha Dolby - Associated Press

A Ukrainian serviceman prays during a service at St. Michael's Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate on Savior of the Honey Feast Day in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Shelling kills 1 in Ukraine; Russia wants nuke plant pledges

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A container ships passes Pfalzgrafenstein castle in the middle of the river Rhine in Kaub, Germany, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. The Rhine carries low water after a long drought period. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Shippers prepare for worst as Rhine levels near critical low

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FILE - Carbon dioxide and other pollutants billows from stacks at the Naughton Power Plant, near where Bill Gates company, TerraPower plans to build an advanced, nontraditional nuclear reactor, on Jan. 12, 2022, in Kemmerer, Wyo. A major economic bill headed to the president has “game-changing” incentives for the nuclear energy industry, experts say, and those tax credits are even more substantial if a facility is sited in a community where a coal plant is closing. (AP Photo/Natalie Behring, File)

Climate bill: Could coal communities shift to nuclear?

By Jennifer McDermott and Mary Katherine Wildeman - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the National Park Service, Mud Canyon Road is closed due to flash flooding in Death Valley, Calif., Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. Heavy rainfall triggered flash flooding that closed several Death Valley National Park roads on Friday near the California-Nevada line. The National Weather Service reported that all park roads had been closed after 1.46 inches of rain fell quickly. (National Park Service/Death Valley National Park via AP)

California prepares for ‘megaflood’ with potential of 100 inches of rain

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Coal miner Scott Tiller takes shelter from the rain after coming out of an underground mine at the end of a shift in Welch, W.Va., May 12, 2016. The sprawling economic package passed by the U.S. Senate this week has a certain West Virginia flavor. The bill could be read largely as an effort to help West Virginia look to the future without turning away entirely from its roots. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Senate climate bill has West Virginia written all over it

By Leah Willingham - Associated Press

An ivory-billed woodpecker specimen is on a display at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Sept. 24, 2021. The federal government has been asked to consider at least two videos made in recent years as evidence that ivory-billed woodpeckers may still exist. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in July 2022, that it was looking for video or photos that all experts could agree showed the bird. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)

Do videos show ivory-billed woodpecker, or is it extinct?

By Janet McConnaughey - Associated Press

The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, south of Los Osos, Calif., is viewed Sept. 20, 2005. The California Energy Commission is holding a three-hour workshop focused on the state's power needs in the climate change era and what role the power plant might have in maintaining reliable electricity. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, File)

Nuke or no nuke? California officials ponder nuclear future

By Michael R. Blood - Associated Press

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres talks with South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin during their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (Jeon Heon-Kyun/Pool Photo via AP)

UN chief affirms support for denuclearized North Korea

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

This image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue), cultured in the laboratory that was captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Md. On Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming that monkeypox hasn't been detected in Georgia drinking water. The July 26 Atlanta-area news broadcast broadcast is being mischaracterized online to push the false claim that monkeypox has been found in residents’ tap water. (NIAID via AP)

WHO plans to rename monkeypox over stigmatization concerns

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