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Damage is seen on a barge after it struck a bridge on the Arkansas River in Sallisaw, Ark., Saturday, March 30, 2024. The Oklahoma State Patrol said Saturday that it closed a highway south of Sallisaw after the collision. (Dayton Holland via AP)

Oklahoma highway reopens following shutdown after a barge hit a bridge

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CORRECTS ROAD TO STATE HIGHWAY 1 INSTEAD OF U.S. 1 - n this photo posted on social media by Caltrans District 5, the Rocky Creek closure on California Highway 1 is seen, Sunday, March 31, 2024, in Monterey County, Calif., following heavy rain in the area. (Caltrans District 5 via AP)

Traffic moving on California Highway 1 after storm collapses lane

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James Tshuma, a farmer in Mangwe district in southwestern Zimbabwe,stands in the middle of his dried up crop field amid a drought in Zimbabwe, Friday, March, 22, 2024. A new drought has left millions facing hunger in southern Africa as they experience the effects of extreme weather that scientists say is becoming more frequent and more damaging. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Extreme drought in southern Africa leaves millions hungry

By Farai Mutsaka and Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Fossil fuels and climate change illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

When is a transition not transition? The Kyoto Protocol and climate change

By Michael McKenna

People walk on the road covered by hailstones due to heavy hailstones rain in Peshawar, Pakistan, Saturday, March 30, 2024. Heavy rains killed eight people, mostly children, and injured 12 in Pakistan's northwest, an official said Saturday. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Heavy rains in northwestern Pakistan kill 8 people, mostly children, and injure 12

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In this photo provided by the Maryland National Guard, the cargo ship Dali is stuck under part of the structure of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after the ship hit the bridge, Tuesday, March 26, 2024, in Baltimore. (Maryland National Guard via AP, File)

At collapsed Baltimore bridge, focus shifts to the weighty job of removing the massive structure

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Tourists on the American side of Niagara Falls take photos in Niagara Falls, N.Y. on Friday, March 29, 2024. Ontario's Niagara Region has declared a state of emergency as it readies to welcome up to a million visitors for the solar eclipse on April 8. (Carlos Osorio/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada’s Niagara region declares a state of emergency to prepare for an influx of eclipse viewers

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A woman walks near logs swept into a neighborhood affected by a flash flood in Pesisir Selatan, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. In Indonesia, environmental groups continue to point to deforestation and environmental degradation worsening the effects of natural disasters such as floods, landslides, drought and forest fires. (AP Photo/Mavendra JR)

In Indonesia, deforestation is intensifying disasters from severe weather and climate change

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Rubble remains at a home destroyed by a 2023 tornado in the Walnut Valley neighborhood in Little Rock, Ark., Friday, March 29, 2024. Many homes are being rebuilt or repaired in the neighborhood after the March 31, 2023, tornadoes that hit the state. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo)

Arkansas, local officials mark anniversary of tornadoes that killed four and destroyed homes

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A crane is seen near the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Friday, March 29, 2024 in Baltimore. A cargo ship rammed into the major bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday, causing it to collapse in a matter of seconds. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

Cranes arriving to start removing wreckage from deadly Baltimore bridge collapse

By Lea Skene and Brian Witte - Associated Press

Alaska Department of Transportation program manager Ryan Marlow demonstrates the agency's robotic dog in Anchorage, Alaska, on March 26, 2024. The device will be camouflaged as a coyote or fox to ward off migratory birds and other wildlife at Alaska's second largest airport, the DOT said. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

Robot disguised as a coyote or fox will scare wildlife away from runways at Alaska airport

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The northern lights, aurora borealis, illuminate the sky above the village of Akaslompolo in Kolari, beyond the Arctic Circle, Finnish Lapland, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

Polar vortex reverses course, spins backward above Arctic

By Staff - The Washington Times

A truck drives by an electric vehicle charging station, Friday, March 8, 2024, in London, Ohio. The charging ports are a key part of President Joe Biden’s effort to encourage drivers to move away from gasoline-powered cars and trucks that contribute to global warming. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel) ** FILE **

Biden’s EPA tees up rules to make America’s trucking fleet go electric starting in 2027

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

This Jan. 19, 2020, file photo shows microplastic debris that has washed up at Depoe Bay, Ore. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky) ** FILE **

Archaeologists finding microplastics in ancient remains

By Staff - The Washington Times

This June 2018 photo provided by Polar Bears International shows polar bear standing on sea ice north of Svalbard, Norway. Arctic sea ice — frozen ocean water — shrinks during the summer as it gets warmer, then forms again in the long winter. How much it shrinks is where global warming kicks in, scientists say. The more the sea ice shrinks in the summer, the thinner the ice is overall, because the ice is weaker first-year ice. (BJ Kirschhoffer/Polar Bears International via AP)

Polar ice melt is changing Earth’s rotation, messing with time itself

By Staff - The Washington Times

The Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H., is seen in this Jan. 20, 2015 file photo. New England's last coal plant will permanently stop operating in 2028 under a settlement agreement signed Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, files)

Last coal-burning power plant in New England set to close in a win for environmentalists

By Michael Casey - Associated Press

This Feb. 2021, file photo released by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife shows a protected gray wolf (OR-93), seen near Yosemite, Calif., shared by the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife. Biden on Thursday finalized rules for protecting imperiled species that reverse changes under former President Donald Trump that weakened the Endangered Species Act. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, File)

Biden administration restores threatened species protections dropped by Trump

By Matthew Brown - Associated Press

EPA Administrator Michael Regan, left, arrives at the Fifth Ward Elementary School, which is near the Denka plant, with Robert Taylor, second left, founder of Concerned Citizens of St. John's Parish, and Lydia Gerard, third left, a member of the group, in Reserve, La., Nov. 16, 2021. The EPA sued Denka Performance Elastomer LLC, arguing that its petrochemical operations in southern Louisiana posed an unacceptable cancer risk to the mostly Black community nearby. The EPA has demanded that the company reduce toxic emissions from its plant that makes synthetic rubber. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Biden’s environmental justice agenda will soon be put to the legal test

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 8, 2020, file photo, the Washington skyline is seen at dawn with from left the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, and the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Fire breaks out near Lincoln Memorial

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times