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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

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

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FILE - Taylor Swift arrives before an NFL wild-card playoff football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins, Jan. 13, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo. For weeks, scrutiny over Swift’s travel has been bubbling up on social media, with people pointing out the planet-warming emissions of carbon dioxide released with every flight. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga, File)

Why Taylor Swift’s globe-trotting in private jets is getting scrutinized

By Isabella O'Malley - Associated Press

This grab taken from video provided by Philip Awinyo Jeremiah shows a fireball after a vehicle loaded with gas which exploded, in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. The truck explosion ignited a huge fireball, and a flying gas cylinder set off a fire that burned down the Oriental Godown, a warehouse that deals with garments and textiles, according to government spokesman Isaac Mwaura. ( (Philip Awinyo Jeremiah via AP)

A fire set off by a gas explosion in Kenya kills at least 3 people and injures 280 others

By Tom Odula - Associated Press

Art Harrall holds a slice of bread up as he makes an image of the Ocean Beach Pier and seagulls with his phone, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, in San Diego. Harrall spends many evenings framing the area's notoriusly beautiful sunsets as a backdrop for the Ocean Beach Pier. Rising seas, frequent storms take toll on California's iconic piers, threatening beach landmarks. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Rising seas and frequent storms are battering California’s piers, threatening the iconic landmarks

By Julie Watson and Haven Daley - Associated Press

This image released by the U.S. Coast Guard, shows Connie the container dog, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, with the four marine inspectors from the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston who found her when randomly selecting containers for inspection at the Bayport Terminal at the Port of Houston. The officers heard sounds of barking and scratching coming from inside one of the stacked shipping containers. Coast Guard officials would later determine the canine had been trapped inside for at least eight days, with no food or water. (Petty Officer 1st Class Lucas Loe/U.S. Coast Guard via AP)

Dog rescued after more than a week trapped inside shipping container in Texas port

By Juan A. Lozano - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Toledo Zoo shows a Kodiak bear named Dodge at the Toledo Zoo in Toledo, Ohio. A pair of bear cubs, members of the Kodiak subspecies of grizzly bear, were spotted on a Florida roadside more than 3,600 miles from their Alaska habitat. (Toledo Zoo via AP)

Kodiak grizzly cubs spotted in Florida, over 3,600 miles from their Alaska habitat

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Metal detectorist Josh Snider walks over a sand mound to search for metals on the edge of the beach ahead of storms, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, in Ventura, Calif. The first of two back-to-back atmospheric rivers slowly pushed into California on Wednesday, triggering statewide storm preparations and calls for people to get ready for potential flooding, heavy snow and damaging winds. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

First of back-to-back atmospheric rivers drenches California

By John Antczak - Associated Press

A police officer in the center of Bodø, Northern Norway, during extreme weather, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Residents of central Norway awoke to scenes of havoc and homes without power Thursday, following the country's most powerful storm in more than three decades. (Per-Inge Johnsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)

Norway’s most powerful storm in over 30 years rips roofs off houses, cuts power

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

This image provided by Virtual Telescope Project out of Italy shows a single 180-second exposure asteroid that was approaching Earth, about 4 million kilometers, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2024. Astronomers say an asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on Friday. There's no chance of it hitting us since it will pass seven times the distance from Earth to the moon. (Virtual Telescope Project via AP)

Skyscraper-size asteroid will buzz Earth on Friday, safely passing within 1.7 million miles

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

An aircraft passes a sign at a Shell petrol station in London, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. Shell has reported that it earned nearly $5.1 billion in the second quarter. London-based oil giant Shell saw profits tumble by nearly a third in 2023 as a result of lower oil and natural gas prices, which had surged the year before in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Shell profits plunge last year from a record high as oil and natural gas prices drop

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Environmental activist Greta Thunberg speaks to the media at Westminster Magistrates Court in London, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Climate activist Greta Thunberg is on trial for protesting outside a major oil and gas industry conference in London last year. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Greta Thunberg defiant as trial begins in London: ‘We must remember who the real enemy is’

By Brian Melley - Associated Press

This image provided by Virtual Telescope Project out of Italy shows a single 180-second exposure asteroid that was approaching Earth, about 4 million kilometers, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2024. Astronomers say an asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on Friday. There's no chance of it hitting us since it will pass seven times the distance from Earth to the moon. (Virtual Telescope Project via AP)

Skyscraper-size asteroid will buzz Earth on Friday, safely passing within 1.7 million miles

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

View of La Baells reservoir, which is only at 21 percent of its capacity, near Berga, north of Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. Barcelona and the surrounding area of Spain's northeast Catalonia are preparing to face tighter water restrictions amid a historic drought that has shrunk reservoirs to record lows. Catalonia has recorded below-average rainfall for 40 consecutive months. Experts say that the drought is driven by climate change and that the entire Mediterranean region is forecast to heat up at a faster rate than many other regions in the coming years. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

An expected drought emergency in northeast Spain would mean tighter water restrictions for Barcelona

By Joseph Wilson - Associated Press

White House senior adviser John Podesta speaks at the U.S. Center at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Dec. 2, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Podesta will replace John Kerry as U.S. special climate change envoy, according to a person familiar with the appointment. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

Biden to name longtime Democratic strategist Podesta as new climate envoy

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - A man fishes with the towering Dukovany nuclear power plant in the background, in Dukovany, Czech Republic, Sept. 27, 2011. The Czech government said on Wednesday Jan. 31, 2024, it was expanding a public tender to build up to four nuclear reactors instead of one as the country's strives to become more energy independent and wean itself of fossil fuels.(AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

Czech government now seeks to build up to 4 nuclear reactors instead 1 to reduce price

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A man prepares to smoke fentanyl on a park bench in downtown Portland, Ore., on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Several elected leaders in Oregon declared a state of emergency on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, for downtown Portland over the public health and public safety crisis fueled by fentanyl. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP, File)

Oregon governor, Portland leaders declare emergency to combat fentanyl

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Monday, March 26, 2018, a pair of sea otters are seen at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, Calif. Bringing sea otters back to a California estuary has helped restore the ecosystem by controlling the number of burrowing crabs - a favorite sea otter snack - that cause marshland erosion. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, file)

Hungry sea otters are helping save California’s marshlands from erosion

By Christina Larson - Associated Press

In this June 12, 2014, photo, pipes carrying liquified natural gas to and from a holding tank, seen in background, at Dominion Energy's Cove Point LNG Terminal in Lusby, Md. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Biden’s liquefied gas export ban pleases Greens at expense of jobs at home, influence abroad

By Victoria Coates

North Korea and Kim Jong Un's threats illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

An emboldened North Korea is a threat to the region

By Joseph R. DeTrani