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People look at the volcano erupting, north of Grindavík, Iceland, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. Iceland’s Meteorological Office says a volcano is erupting in the southwestern part of the country, north of a nearby settlement. The eruption of the Sylingarfell volcano began at 6 a.m. local time on Thursday, soon after an intense burst of seismic activity. (AP Photo/Marco Di Marco)

Volcano erupts in the same part of Iceland where earlier activity had required evacuations

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Michael Mann, then-professor of atmospheric science at Penn State, arrives at the "Before the Flood" premiere on day 2 of the Toronto International Film Festival at the Princess of Wales Theatre on Sept. 9, 2016, in Toronto. Closing arguments are expected Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, in a defamation lawsuit brought by Mann against a pair of conservative writers who compared him to a convicted child molester for his depiction of global warming. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Jury to decide on climate scientist Michael Mann’s defamation suit over comparison to molester

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Jesus Barron looks at the damage, created by a mudslide, in his backyard, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, in Hacienda Heights, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Southern Californians recount harrowing mudslides during deadly record-breaking storm

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Activists vandalizing art illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Green activists are a menace to society

By Vijay Jayaraj

Prentice Sinclair Smith a friend of home owner Dion Peronneau says she was awoken by the sound of cracking around 4 a.m. early morning Monday, as mudflow forced its way into her home in the Baldwin Hills area of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Los Angeles records nearly 400 mudslides during storm that has drenched Southern California

By John Antczak and Julie Watson - Associated Press

People toss carnations into the Orontes River as they mark the one-year anniversary of the country's catastrophic earthquake, in the city of Antakya, southern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Metin Yoksu)

Turkey mourns tens of thousands dead, surrounded by the ruins of last year’s earthquake

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Postal Service, once chided for slow adoption of EVs, announces plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions

By David Sharp - Associated Press

A first responder helps a resident evacuate from a neighborhood after a mudslide, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024, in the Beverly Crest area of Los Angeles. A storm of historic proportions unleashed record levels of rain over parts of Los Angeles on Monday, endangering the city's large homeless population, sending mud and boulders down hillsides dotted with multimillion-dollar homes and knocking out power for more than a million people in California. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Rare tornado warning issued for San Diego County as historic storm still threatens California

By John Antczak and Julie Watson - Associated Press

Plastic bottle particles illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

‘Everything will kill you’ crowd fools us again with plastic particles health scare

By Rick Berman

FILE - Residents wade down a street through receding floodwaters, two days after Hurricane Patricia, in the village of Rebalse, Jalisco State, Mexico, Oct. 25, 2015. A handful of powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has some experts proposing a new category of hurricanes: Category 6, which would be for storms with wind speeds of 192 miles per hour or more. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Dial it up to Category 6? As warming stokes storms, some want a bigger hurricane category

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

Dengue patients receive treatment in a provisional clinic in the Santa Maria neighborhood of Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Rio de Janeiro declares a dengue health emergency days ahead of Carnival

By Eléonore Hughes - Associated Press

A small vehicle drives past a network of piping that makes up pieces of a &quot;train&quot; at Cameron LNG export facility in Hackberry, La., on Thursday, March 31, 2022. Natural gas is cooled at the facility and turned into liquid and sent on massive ships to many parts of the world. Once it arrives at its destination, the liquified natural gas is re-gasified and piped to homes, factories and other places. Demand for natural gas worldwide has been greater than ever since Russia, another major natural gas exporter, invaded Ukraine. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine) ** FILE **

More than 150 Republicans call on Biden to reverse LNG export moratorium

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Search and rescue workers investigate a car surrounded by floodwater as heavy rains caused the Guadalupe River to swell, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024, in San Jose, Calif. The vehicle was uninhabited. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Second atmospheric river in days churns through California, knocking out power and flooding roads

By Christopher Weber - Associated Press

FILE - Residents evacuate on a motorcycle amid wildfires into Vina del Mar, Chile, Feb. 3, 2024. Scientists say climate change creates conditions that make the drought and wildfires now hitting South America more likely. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)

How climate change contributes to wildfires like Chile’s

By Ed Davey - Associated Press

This image made available by NASA shows an illustration of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). NASA announced that this new exoplanet, named TOI-715 b, is located a mere 137 light-years from Earth and lies within what is considered the "habitable zone," the area around a star where conditions could support liquid water — and hence, potentially life. (NASA via AP, file)

NASA announces ‘Super-Earth’ discovered in potential ‘habitable zone’

By Staff - The Washington Times

The sun sets as smoke fills the sky caused by the forest fire encroaching on Vina del Mar, Chile, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. Officials say intense forest fires burning around a densely populated area of central Chile have left dozens of people dead and destroyed hundreds of homes. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Forest fires rage on in central Chile killing at least 64

By Patricia Luna and Manuel Rueda - Associated Press

A man huddles under an umbrella as he walks a dog along the shoreline at Pacific Grove, Calif., Feb. 2, 2024. California braced Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024 for the worst of a potentially dangerous storm that threatened to hammer parts of the state with hurricane-force winds and cause flooding and mudslides as it moves down the coast over the next few days. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)

Second powerful storm in days blows into California, sparking warnings of hurricane-force winds

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Tesla ordered to pay $1.5 million over alleged hazardous waste violations in California

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Ambulance. File image credit Chris D swabb via Shutterstock.

Magnitude 5.1 earthquake rattles central Oklahoma

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A Cape bushbuck walks through the Aberdare National Park in Nyeri, Kenya, Jan. 25, 2024. The Kenyan government wants to build a tarmac road to connect two counties through the Aberdare Range and scientists and conservationists say the project would have an irreversible impact on the ecosystem. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Planned road across Kenyan park creates split between environmental costs and financial gains

By Carlos Mureithi - Associated Press