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This image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows dead elkhorn coral on Feb. 9, 2024, at Carysfort Reef, northeast of Key Largo, Fla. Record hot seawater killed more than three-quarters of human-cultivated coral that scientists had placed in the Florida Keys in recent years in an effort to prop up a threatened species that’s highly vulnerable to climate change, researchers discovered. (Ben Edmonds/NOAA via AP)

Hot seawater killed most of cultivated coral in Florida Keys in setback for restoration effort

Associated Press

Maryland Secretary of the Environment Serena McIlwain speaks at a news conference on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024 in Annapolis, Md., where Gov. Wes Moore's administration highlighted $90 million that is being allocated to help reach the state's ambitious goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Moore is standing left, and Paul Pinsky, the head of the Maryland Energy Administration, is standing right. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore unveils $90M for environmental initiatives

By Brian Witte - Associated Press

Green New Deal Waste of Money Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Shrouding the American West in solar panels

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Zuleida greets and speaks with municipal health workers and volunteers who are inspecting the Tabajaras favela for standing water where Aedes aegypti mosquitoes can breed, in an effort to stop the spread of dengue in the Copacabana neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazil’s health agents scour junkyards and roofs for mosquitos to fight dengue epidemic

By Diane Jeantet - Associated Press

A camera trap hangs on a tree at Khnorng Phsar, a national park of Cardamom Mountain in western Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. As part of a plan to restore Cambodia's population of tigers, the country's Environment Ministry this weekend will start installing a network of camera traps in the country's Cardamom Mountains and soon import four tigers from India to jumpstart the repopulating process. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodia to install hundreds of wildlife cameras in an effort to restore its tiger population

Associated Press

Fisherman fish the Salt River on Tuesday, March 3, 2015, in Mesa, Ariz. A fake alligator and a fake crocodile placed in an Arizona lake (not pictured) look lifelike enough to confuse residents. The “deadly” foam reptiles have been placed into the lake in Mesa's Riverview Park in recent months to give turtles and birds a place to rest and soak in the sunlight. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Fake alligator put in Arizona park by local officials stumps residents

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a blacklegged tick, also known as a deer tick, a carrier of Lyme disease. U.S. Lyme disease cases jumped nearly 70% in 2022, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. But health officials say it’s due to a change in reporting requirements, and not an explosion of new infections. (CDC via AP, File)

Lyme disease case counts in the U.S. rose by almost 70% in 2022 due to a change in how it’s reported

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

A 46-foot-whale is seen washed ashore on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, on Sunset Beach State Park in Clatsop County, Ore. (Tiffany Boothe/Seaside Aquarium via AP)

A fin whale decomposing on an Oregon beach creates a sad but ‘super educational’ spectacle

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press

A heat exchanger and transfer pipes at Dominion Energy's Cove Point LNG Terminal in Lusby, Md., June 12, 2014. The Biden administration is delaying consideration of new natural gas export terminals in the United States, even as gas shipments to Europe and Asia have soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

With help from Democrats, House votes to overturn Biden’s freeze on new LNG exports

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Relatives of missing miners leave the Copler gold mine near Ilic village, eastern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. Hundreds of rescuers on Wednesday pressed ahead with efforts to search for at least nine workers trapped at a gold mine in eastern Turkey that was engulfed by a massive landslide. (Mert Gokhan Koc/Dia images via AP)

Turkey detains 4 people as part of probe into landslide at gold mine that left at least 9 missing

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Guards stand next to the U.S. Constitution in the newly renovated Rotunda of the National Archives in Washington, Sept. 16, 2003, during a media tour. The National Archives building and galleries were evacuated Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 14, 2024, after two protestors dumped red powder on the protective casing around the U.S. Constitution. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

Climate activists arrested for dumping red powder on U.S. Constitution display at National Archives

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A man walks through wildfire wreckage in Lahaina, Hawaii, Aug. 11, 2023. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Friday, Jan. 5, 2024 it plans to move thousands of hotel-dwelling survivors of wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui into long-term housing over the next month. AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Hawaii officials announce new evacuation routes to be built in aftermath of Maui fire

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

FILE - North Atlantic right whales interact at the surface on Cape Cod Bay near a research vessel from the International Fund for Animal Welfare, March 27, 2023, off the coast of Massachusetts. A coalition of environmental groups has sued the federal government to try to force the finalization of ship speed rules the groups say are critically important to save a species of vanishing whale. The proposed ship speed rules would require vessels off the East Coast to slow down more often to help save the North Atlantic right whale. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, NOAA permit # 21371))

Environmental groups sue to force government to finalize ship speed rules that protect rare whales

By Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

Matt Artis, 34, surveys the wreckage Friday morning, Feb. 9, 2024, after a tornado struck his farm in the Town of Porter, Wis., on Thursday evening. A line of storms and tornadoes fueld by unusually warm February weather tore across southeastern Wisconsin on Thursday. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)

First-ever February tornadoes in Wisconsin caused $2.4M in damages

Associated Press

In this handout photograph provided by Taiwan Coast Guard Administration, Taiwanese coast guards inspect a vessel that capsized during a chase off the coast of Kinmen archipelago in Taiwan, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. The unnamed vessel had been sailing about one nautical mile off the coast of an islet of Kinmen island and was trespassing, said Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration. Four fishermen fell into the water and two survived and are in “good shape,” while resuscitation efforts on the other two failed, the vice director of the Coast Guard in Kinmen, Chen Jien-wen, told a local TV channel. (Taiwan Coast Guard Administration via AP)

2 Chinese fishermen drown after chase with Taiwan’s Coast Guard, which alleges trespassing

By HUIZHONG WU - Associated Press

A boy holds locusts he caught in Elburgon, Kenya, March 17, 2021. Extreme wind and rain may lead to bigger and worse desert locust outbreaks, with human-caused climate change likely to intensify the weather patterns and cause higher outbreak risks, a new study has found. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

Erratic weather fueled by climate change will worsen locust outbreaks, study finds

Associated Press

A bridge is damaged after Hurricane Fiona hit Villa Esperanza in Salinas, Puerto Rico, Sept. 21, 2022. Puerto Rico continues reconstruction work after two devastating hurricanes and a string of strong earthquakes, spending less than 10% of the more than $23 billion available in federal funds, according to a U.S. government report released on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo, File)

Federal audit finds ‘a lot of work remains’ in Puerto Rico’s hurricane and earthquake recovery

Associated Press

Workers from state own Heritage Petroleum Oil and Gas Company clean up an oil spill that reached Rockly Bay beach, in Scarborough, south western Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Akash Boodan)

Oil spill from mystery vessel off Tobago becomes ‘national emergency’ for island nation

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

FILE - A red-backed vole is held during a survey of plant and animal life in Juneau, Alaska, on Thursday, May 1, 2014. Alaskapox was discovered in 2015 in a woman who lived near Fairbanks, Alaska. It mainly has been found in small mammals, including red-backed voles and shrews. But pets, such as dogs and cats, may also carry the virus, health officials say. (Michael Penn/The Juneau Empire via AP, File)

What is Alaskapox? Recent death brings attention to virus seen in small animals

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

This photo provided by Intuitive Machines shows the company's IM-1 Nova-C lunar lander in Houston in October 2023. The company aims to launch the lander in mid-February 2024, on a SpaceX rocket. (Intuitive Machines via AP)

Houston company aims to land on the moon

By Staff - The Washington Times