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Motorcyclists and vehicles move on a bridge as smog envelops the historical Badshahi Mosque, background, in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. Lahore is in an airshed, an area where pollutants from industry, transportation and other human activities get trapped and cannot disperse easily. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Air pollution and politics pose cross-border challenges in South Asia

In recent weeks, Lahore in Pakistan’s east has seen flight cancellations, school closures, factory shutdowns, and artificial rain to get things under control — but nothing seems to be working.
 
FILE - Ships travel along the Mississippi River in LaPlace, La., as the sun sets on Oct. 20, 2023. The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that can contaminate drinking water, degrade aquatic life and feed the so-called “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a recently released Environmental Protection Agency assessment. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Latest EPA assessment shows almost no improvement in river and stream nitrogen pollution

 
FILE - The main entrance of the meat processing company JBS is visible in Porto Velho, Rondonia state, Brazil, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Some lawmakers and environmental groups are opposed to JBS being listed on the New York Stock Exchange, arguing that expanded capital would allow the company, responsible for much deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, to do even more harm. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

Bid by meatpacker JBS to join New York Stock Exchange faces opposition over Amazon deforestation

 
FILE - A worker pauses while removing snow from Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y., Jan. 14, 2024. While the U.S. is shivering through bone-chilling cold, most of the rest of world is feeling unusually warm weather. Scientists Tuesday, Jan. 16, say that fits with what climate change is doing to Earth. (AP Photo/ Jeffrey T. Barnes, File)

US in deep freeze while much of the world is extra toasty? Yet again, it’s climate change

 
A sapling is held before it is planted inside Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Mbarara, Uganda, on Dec. 5, 2023. Refugees are helping to plant thousands of seedlings in hopes of reforesting the area. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

In Uganda, refugees’ need for wood ravaged the forest. Now, they work to restore it

 

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Yaad Ali, left, and his son Musikur Alam, row a boat to collect drinking water in the floodwaters in Sandahkhaiti, a floating island village in the Brahmaputra River in Morigaon district, Assam, India, Aug. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

AP photos reveal intensity, insecurity and inequality in 2023 as world altered by climate change

 
Ali Shadilov, left, and Anvar Saimbetov pose in front of an old boat in the area where the Aral Sea once was in Muynak, Uzbekistan, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. The Associated Press interviewed Shadilov and others in Muynak, Uzbekistan – all residents in their 60s and 70s who’ve long been tied to the sea, or what remains of it. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

These men once relied on the Aral Sea. Today, the dry land is a reminder of lost livelihoods

 
Juma Indigenous sisters Mandei Juma, from left, Mayta Juma and Borea Juma pose for a picture at their community, near Canutama, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sunday, July 9, 2023. The Juma seemed destined to disappear following the death of their father, the last remaining elderly man, but under his three daughters’ leadership, they changed the patriarchal tradition and now fight to preserve their territory and culture. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Indigenous women bring a tiny tribe back from the brink of extinction in the Amazon

 
Scientific diver Morgan Murphy-Cannella holds bull kelp with a dark patch of reproductive spores as she surveys a reforestation project, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, near Caspar, Calif. Kelp forests play an integral role in the health of the world’s oceans, one of the issues being discussed at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

From urchin crushing to lab-grown kelp, efforts to save California’s kelp forests show promise

 
Environmental activist members of the Situ Gede Cleanliness Warrior pick up trash while paddling kayaks at Setu Gede lake in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Young people have been at the forefront of environmental and climate change movements in recent years: initiatives like school strikes for climate action, protests at United Nations climate talks and around the world, and local clean ups have often been youth-led. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Indonesia’s youth clean up trash from waterways, but more permanent solutions are still elusive

 
Workers carry a solar panel for installation at the under-construction Adani Green Energy Limited's Renewable Energy Park in the salt desert of Karim Shahi village, near Khavda, Bhuj district near the India-Pakistan border in the western state of Gujarat, India, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. India is developing a 30 gigawatt hybrid — wind and solar — renewable energy project on one of the largest salt deserts in the world. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

In the salt deserts bordering Pakistan, India builds its largest renewable energy project

 
A person walks past signs that read "stop war" and "go green" at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Dec. 8, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

At UN climate talks in Dubai, moments between the meetings

 
Joyce Ngui heads to fetch groundwater in Athi River, Machakos county, Kenya, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. “Sometimes, we get to the water vending stations and find that the queue is long and then the water finishes and you have to wait,” Ngui said. “Most of the times you don’t have money to buy even the salty water sold around. So we have no choice but to use the swamp water," she said. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

In some neighborhoods in drought-prone Kenya, clean water is scarce. Filters are one solution

 
(AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

How did humans get to the brink of crashing climate?

 
Bales of hay are stored under shelters at Al Dahra Farms, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, in the McMullen Valley in Wenden, Ariz. Worries about future water supplies from ancient aquifers are bubbling up in western rural Arizona. Some neighbors complain that their backyard wells have dried up since the Emirati agribusiness began farming alfalfa nearby. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Tensions are bubbling up at thirsty Arizona alfalfa farms as foreign firms exploit unregulated water

 

Fossil fuel influence at UN climate talks
Capuava oil refinery owned by Petrobras sits in Maui, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. Petrobras specializes in deep water exploration, drilling and extraction. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Oil companies attending climate talks have minimal green energy transition plans, AP analysis finds

 
Happy Cardinal, right, looks at what remains of his cabin, destroyed by wildfires, near Fort Chipewyan, Canada, on Sunday, Sep. 3, 2023. Wildfires are bringing fresh scrutiny to Canada's fossil fuel dominance, its environmentally friendly image and the viability of becoming carbon neutral by 2050. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Canada says it can fight climate change and be major oil nation. Massive fires may force a reckoning

 
FILE - The coal-fired power plant Uniper Scholven and a nearby BP refinery shine in the evening behind illuminated appartments in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. Environmental activists say the lobbying of fossil fuel interests are the reason why climate talks have yet to produce an agreement to phase out coal, oil and natural gas, as scientists have repeatedly said must happen to stave off the worst impacts of climate change, like extreme weather events. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Fossil fuel interests have large, yet often murky, presence at climate talks, AP analysis finds

 

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A penguin's colony is visible near Bransfield Strait shore, Antarctica, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

On Antarctica’s ice and in its seas, penguins in a warming world

 
A pair of maleos look for a spot to lay an egg in Mamuju, West Sulawesi, Indonesia, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. With their habitat dwindling and nesting grounds facing encroachment from human activities, the journey of a maleo pair for egg laying grows ever more precarious and uncertain. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Indonesian maleo conservation faced setbacks due to development and plans for a new capital city

 
Fish swim around brain coral deep below ocean at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. Sheltered in a deep, cool habitat far from shore, the reefs in the Flower Garden Banks boast a stunning amount of coral coverage. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Climate change is hurting coral worldwide. But these reefs off the Texas coast are thriving

 
Jonnie Narita, 24, whose grandfather George Nakagawa was a baseball star at the camp, poses for a portrait in front of a recreated baseball diamond at Minidoka National Historic Site, Saturday, July 6, 2023, in Jerome, Idaho. It wasn't until after Nakagawa's family convinced him to attend the celebration of the reconstructed diamond in 2016 that he began to share more of his incarceration experience. "Without [this] place we wouldn't have all these family stories from my grandpa," said Narita. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

People who make pilgrimages to a World War II Japanese American incarceration camp and their stories

 
Nikyle Begay moves a sheep in preparation for shearing Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023, on the Navajo Nation in Ganado, Ariz. When it's time for shearing, Begay ties the hooves of the sheep into place and cut the wool by hand with a special pair of scissors. (AP Photo/John Locher)

‘My heart was always just with the sheep.’ One Navajo’s push to keep tradition vibrant

 
Cody Manson, left, holds a sheep as Jay Begay, right, applies a castration band Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in the community of Rocky Ridge, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation. Climate change, permitting issues and diminishing interest among younger generations are leading to a singular reality: Navajo raising fewer sheep. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Navajo sheep herding at risk from climate change. Some young people push to maintain the tradition

 

More flooding forecast for Australia’s northeast as storm in Coral Sea nears cyclone strength

A tropical low strengthening over the Coral Sea is forecast to be the second cyclone in as many months to bring destructive winds and flooding to Australia’s northeast.
 
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green speaks to reporters in Honolulu on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024, after delivering his State of the State address at the Hawaii State Capitol. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

Hawaii’s governor hails support for Maui and targets vacation rentals exacerbating housing shortage

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green used his annual State of the State address to lead lawmakers and guests in a moment of silence for victims of the Lahaina wildfire.
 
Julia Bernal, with Pueblo Action Alliance, speaks at a protest against an initiative by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to develop a strategic new source of water, buying treated water that is the byproduct of oil and natural gas drilling, then treating it and selling it back to industry. Around 35 people attended the rally included speakers by Wild Earth Guardians and No False Solutions outside the State Capitol, in Santa Fe, N.M., Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)

New Mexico governor proposes $500M to treat fracking wastewater

A proposal by New Mexico’s governor to underwrite the treatment and recycling of oil-industry wastewater is being denounced by environmentalists as a handout to the petroleum industry that will only facilitates more fracking.
 
This aerial photo taken on Nov. 13, 2023, by Archaeology Southwest with a volunteer pilot and Lighthawk, a nonprofit organization, shows new access roads and tower pad sites west of the San Pedro River, near Redrock Canyon, in Arizona. The image was included in a lawsuit filed Jan. 17, 2024, asking a U.S. District Court in Arizona to order work to stop on a $10 billion transmission line slated to carry electricity produced by a huge wind power project in central New Mexico to markets including California. (Archaeology Southwest via AP)

Tribes, environmental groups ask US court to block $10B energy transmission project in Arizona

A federal judge is being asked to issue a stop-work order on a $10 billion electricity transmission line slated to run through a remote southeastern Arizona valley.
 
A woman walks by cars damaged by floods during a rainstorm in San Diego on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

Flash floods inundate homes and overturn cars in San Diego as heavy rains sweep through much of US

Flash floods inundated homes and overturned cars in Southern California as torrential rain swept through a large swath of the U.S.
 
Many roads remained slick and full of ice Monday, Jan. 22, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn. Memphis and the the surrounding area has endured a week of sub-freezing temperatures, snow and ice. (AP Photo/Karen Pulfer Focht)

Memphis residents endure day 4 of water problems as freezing weather bursts pipes across the South

More than 600,000 people served by the Memphis, Tennessee, water utility are on their fourth day of boiling water for drinking, brushing teeth and preparing food.
 
Waves break on the sea front in Blackpool, England, Monday, Jan, 22, 2024. The U.K.'s Met Office weather service had issued an unusual blanket wind warning for the whole country before Storm Isha, which reached its peak overnight. A 99-mile-an-hour gust was recorded at Brizlee Wood radar station in northeastern England. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP)

Storm Isha batters Britain and Ireland, killing 2 motorists and leaving many thousands without power

The latest winter storm to lash Britain and Ireland has killed two motorists and left tens of thousands of people without electricity.
 
Workers prepare Benito the giraffe for transport at the city-run Central Park Zoo in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

Benito the giraffe goes on a 40-hour road trip to find warmth, and maybe a mate, in central Mexico

A giraffe named Benito has started a 40-hour road trip to leave the cold and loneliness of Mexico’s border city of Ciudad Juarez, and maybe find love and warmth in his new home.
 
People carry torches en route to the beetle before setting it on fire during the 11th annual Burning Beetle event on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, at Pageant Park in Custer, S.D. The event was created in response to the Mountain Pine Beetle infestation a few years ago and continues to raise awareness of the impact of the beetles. (Matt Gade/Rapid City Journal via AP)

‘Burn, beetle, burn’: Hundreds of people torch an effigy of destructive bug in South Dakota town

The event, which includes a talent show and “bug crawl,” supports the local arts.
 
Members of the Bellows Falls, Vt., Fire Department practice cold water rescue training at Minard's Pond in Bellows Falls, Vt., on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP)

Much of US still gripped by arctic weather as Memphis deals with numerous broken water pipes

Subfreezing conditions and treacherous roadways have contributed to dozens of deaths this month across the U.S., where states as far south as Texas and Florida remain gripped by deadly arctic weather Sunday.
 
A tree branch fallen on a car on Lisburn Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during Storm Isha, on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. A Status Red wind warning has been issued for counties Donegal, Galway and Mayo as authorities warn people to take care ahead of Storm Isha's arrival. (Liam McBurney/PA via AP)

Storm Isha’s rain and winds are expected to batter parts of the UK and Ireland and disrupt travel

Britain and Ireland are bracing as Storm Isha unleashes rain and potentially deadly winds that are expected to batter a wide swath of land and disrupt travel into the start of the work week.
 

Indonesia’s Mount Merapi unleashes lava as other volcanoes flare up, forcing thousands to evacuate

Indonesia’s Mount Merapi has erupted, spreading searing gas clouds and avalanches of lava down its slopes as other active volcanoes flared up across the country, forcing the evacuation of thousands.
 

37 Massachusetts communities to get disaster aid for last year’s flooding

The governor’s administration says 37 Massachusetts communities damaged by flooding last year will be getting a share of $10 million in disaster relief funding.
 
Mark Palmquist cross country skis through the snowfall Friday, Jan. 19, 2024 at Baker Park in Frederick, Md. (Ric Dugan/The Frederick News-Post via AP)

Winter blast in much of US poses serious risks like black ice, frostbite and hypothermia

Freezing temperatures and wind speeds are creating dangerously cold conditions in a large part of the U.S. stretching from Montana to northern Florida.
 
Fans watch teams warm up before an NFL football AFC divisional playoff game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Brutally cold weather reaches deep into lower United States, causing dozens of deaths

Warnings have been issued across most of the U.S. as brutal cold weather continues to reach southward.
 
Lydia Ko, from New Zealand, watches tee shot on the first hole during the first round of the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions LPGA golf tournament Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Kevin Kolczynski)

Lydia Ko feels at home and shares lead in LPGA opener

Lydia Ko is feeling refreshed and right at home at the LPGA’s season opener. She lives at Lake Nona and is ready to put last year’s poor year behind her.
 
FILE - Ted Henifin, interim water manager for JXN Water, the water system for the city of Jackson, Miss., demonstrates how to run faucet water like a "thin line of spaghetti with intermittent breaks" in order to deal with expected below freezing weather, at a news conference in Jackson, Miss., Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. Law enforcement agencies are investigating whether social media rumors about a potential water outage prompted people to quickly fill containers with tap water in Mississippi's capital during a cold snap and cause a drop in pressure that temporarily made taps run dry to thousands of households on the city’s long-troubled system. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Online rumors partially to blame for drop in water pressure in Mississippi capital, manager says

Law enforcement agencies are investigating whether social media rumors about a potential water outage prompted people to quickly fill bathtubs with tap water in Mississippi’s capital during a cold snap.
 
FILE - This April 12, 2023, file image, shows burned trees in the mountains near Las Vegas, New Mexico, a year after prescribed burn operations by the U.S. Forest Service sparked the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire. The official overseeing about $4 billion in U.S. relief for people affected by a fire in New Mexico set by the Forest Service is stepping aside to help with consolidating recovery operations in the state. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Angela Gladwell’s job change on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. A new chief operating officer will be chosen to lead long term recovery efforts. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

FEMA official who was criticized over aid delays after huge New Mexico fire is changing jobs

The official overseeing about $4 billion in federal relief for people affected by a fire in a New Mexico fire set by the Forest Service is being reassigned to help consolidate recovery operations in the state.
 
FILE - Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., asks a question during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 15, 2022. The U.S. Department of Defense plans to install two more groundwater treatment systems at a former Michigan military base to control contamination from so-called forever chemicals, Slotkin's office announced Friday, Jan. 19, 2024.(AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Defense Department to again target ‘forever chemicals’ contamination near Michigan military base

The U.S. Department of Defense plans to install more groundwater treatment systems at a former Michigan military base to control contamination from so-called forever chemicals.
 
FILE - People talk in front of the logo of the World Economy Forum on the last day of the forum's Annual Meeting at the Congress Center in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. On Friday, Jan. 19, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming a deadly contagion known as Disease X is emerging and under discussion at the World Economic Forum’s 2024 annual meeting in Davos. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: A contagion known as Disease X is not real.