Climate

A woman wearing a mask crosses the street in Toronto as wildfire smoke fills the city, on Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (Laura Proctor/The Canadian Press via AP)

How to protect yourself from the bad air caused by wildfires

When wildfires burn, smoke can travel long distances and degrade air quality far away, posing risks to those breathing it.

A patient receiving oxygen lies on a hospital bed while suffering from a heat-related illness amid high temperatures during a heat wave in Banda, northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

What living in one of the world’s hottest towns feels like

A motorist is silhouetted by the setting sun March 26, 2026, in Lenexa, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Need for speed? Driving above the speed limit costs you — and doesn’t actually save much time

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Sonam Velani and Yan Sim plug in a battery from Every Electric to power an air conditioner as part of a pilot program with the city's energy company Con Edison to reduce pressure on the electrical grid April 27, 2026, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Alyssa Goodman, File)

Battery bank or generator? How to choose the best backup power for your home during an outage

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Desert control worker Yin Yuzhen visits a desertification control site of the Engebei Ecological Area near Ordos in northern China's Inner Mongolia province on Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China’s ‘Green Great Wall’ tames desert growth, but scientists warn the fight is not over

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Mezcal’s popularity comes with environmental costs

A worker cuts an agave pineapple used to produce mezcal in Nejapa de Madero, Oaxaca, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Claudia Rosel)

Mezcal’s popularity is booming in the US. That comes with a growing environmental cost in Mexico

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Workers cut agave pineapples used to produce mezcal in Nejapa de Madero, Oaxaca, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Claudia Rosel)

See how mezcal is made in Mexico

Armando Martínez Ruiz, a mezcal producer, stands in his agave field in Soledad Salinas, Oaxaca, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Claudia Rosel)

Mezcal producers in Oaxaca pose for photos while reflecting on economic impacts of the drink

Ambler Access Road proposal at issue in Alaska

Tristen Pattee hunts with his family along the Kobuk River near Ambler, Alaska, where heavy rains have contributed to riverbank erosion Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

Climate change is straining Alaska’s Arctic. A new mining road may push the region past the brink

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Erosion is visible on the banks of the Kobuk River near Ambler, Alaska, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

Takeaways from AP’s report on potential impacts of Alaska’s proposed Ambler Access Road

Roswell Schaeffer, an Inupiaq hunter and fisher, helps his great-grandson James Schaeffer, 7, scope ducks while hunting in Kotzebue, Alaska, Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

In Alaska’s warming Arctic, photos show an Indigenous elder passing down hunting traditions

Defenders of people and land in Colombia

Patricia Elago Zetty, an Indigenous Guard, poses for a photo on July 16, 2025, in Caldono, Colombia. (AP Photo/Nadège Mazars)

Violent guerrillas are taking Colombia’s children. Unarmed Indigenous groups are confronting them

Eduwin Calambas Fernandez, coordinator of Kiwe Thegnas, which refers to Indigenous Guard in the Nasa Yuwe language, in Canoas, an Indigenous reserve in northern Cauca, Colombia, poses for a photo on July 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Nadège Mazars)

Takeaways from AP’s reporting on armed groups recruiting children in Colombia

A child is gently splashed with water, a ritual meant to protect them, July, 19, 2025, in the Lopez Adentro reserve in Caloto, Colombia. (AP Photo/Nadège Mazars)

After taking back land in Colombia, Indigenous prepare their youth to safeguard it

Participants in the Indigenous youth assembly gather to vote on coordinator of the youth movement July 12, 2025, in the conflict-hit reserve of Las Delicias, in Cauca, Colombia. (AP Photo/Nadège Mazars)

In Colombia, Indigenous youth seek to protect land. They have to escape violence to do it

CLIMATE VIDEOS

Inside Israel’s push to clear sea munitions as part of global push to protect waters

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How to stay cool in a heat wave — even without air conditioning

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AI has a huge environmental footprint

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What to know about Patagonia’s lawsuit against drag queen Pattie Gonia

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FILE - A person uses a fan as they wait in line to purchase Broadway tickets in Times Square, during a heat advisory in New York, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Adam Gray, File)

Traveling during a heat wave? Tips for staying safe

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Are clothing rental services actually sustainable? Experts say it’s complicated

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Cities are using alternatives to clean up their parking lots

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Plastic bags don’t go in the recycling bin. What should you do instead?

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1.5°C: what it means and why it matters

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Heather Grady plants a kale seedling in her garden Thursday, April 9, 2026, in Denver. (AP photo/Brittany Peterson)

In a drought? Here’s how to grow food with less water

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Extreme heat could impact the World Cup games. Here’s what cities are doing to prepare

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FILE - Bleached coral is visible at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, off the coast of Galveston, Texas, in the Gulf of Mexico, Sept. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Most sunscreens harm corals. Here’s what you can do

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Up close with the wind farms taking shape on US East Coast

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Katharine Wilkinson gives a talk about living with climate uncertainty at American University in Washington on April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Phillis)

In climate change fight, doomerism is out. Laughter is in

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How you store produce can make it last longer

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Climate Choices

Sonel Telemaque, left, wipes sweat from his brow while installing a new air conditioning unit alongside Brian Hermosillo during record-breaking heat March 19, 2026, in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Caitlin O'Hara, File)

This air conditioning strategy is the sweet spot for saving energy and money, experts say

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Amazon Web Services data center is visible on Aug. 22, 2024, in Boardman, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

AI is an energy and water hog, here’s what you can do to counter that

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A woman cools herself outside the Palace of Westminster in London, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

How to stay safe while traveling during extreme heat

Vara Pikor returns an item at a clothing rental store in New York on Nov. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Clothing rental services promise a sustainable alternative to fast fashion. Experts say it depends

Patterns and distressing, made by a laser, are displayed at the BPD Washhouse, a denim processing facility, in Jersey City, N.J., Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Some brands say their jeans are eco-friendly. Here’s how to find a pair that’s actually sustainable

Plastic bags with groceries sit in a cart Monday, May 18, 2026, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Plastic bags don’t go in the recycling bin. What should you do instead?

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Sonam Velani and Yan Sim plug in a battery from Every Electric to power an air conditioner as part of a pilot program with the city's energy company Con Edison to reduce pressure on the electrical grid Monday, April 27, 2026, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Alyssa Goodman)

Air conditioning battery program for renters could help cities manage grid stress during heat waves

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Carly Zeffren, with the Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery, brings the body of Kenneth Jennings King to his grave site Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in Gainesville, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Your climate impact doesn’t end when you die. More people are considering ‘greener’ death options

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Heather Grady plants a kale seedling in her yard Thursday, April 9, 2026, in Denver. (AP photo/Brittany Peterson)

Here’s how to grow your own food with less water, even in a drought

A woman applies sunscreen to a man at Avlaki beach east of Athens, Greece, Aug. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Most sunscreens harm corals. Here’s what you can do

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A farmer rests his hands on vegetables at a market June 15, 2023, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

How you store produce can make it last longer

A shopper looks at a rack at Mothership, a vintage and thrift store, Thursday, March 26, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Alyssa Goodman)

Fast furniture isn’t built to last. Here’s how to find quality pieces that are still affordable

Unsafe water in mobile homes

Gerardo Sanchez, an outreach coordinator with the immigrant and farmworker justice group TODEC, helps deliver bottled water to mobile home residents in Oasis, Calif., Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

For millions in US mobile home parks, clean and safe tap water isn’t a given

Virgilio Galarza Rodriguez works outside his mobile home in Oasis, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Takeaways from AP’s report on water quality and safety at US mobile home parks

Empty water jugs sit in the bed of a pickup truck as Agustin Toledo and his wife, Ricarda, mobile home residents in Southern California's eastern Coachella Valley, travel to a nearby water store to refill them in Oasis, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

PHOTO ESSAY: Many Californians lack safe tap water and don’t trust cleanup efforts

Theo Gantos walks outside his mobile home, Thursday, April 24, 2025, in Genesee County, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Michigan led on safe water after Flint, but mobile home parks are stubborn rough spot

Climate solutions

Michael del Rosario, environmental education coordinator at Fundemar, shows a piece of ceramic with corals growing on it in Bayahibe, Dominican Republic on Oct. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Francesco Spotorno)

As reefs vanish, assisted coral fertilization offers hope in the Dominican Republic

A worker surveys Vo Van Van's rice fields after spraying fertilizer over the fields using a drone in Long An province in southern Vietnam's Mekong Delta, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. Using less water and using a drone to fertilize are new techniques that Van is trying and Vietnam hopes will help solve a paradox at the heart of growing rice: The finicky crop isn't just vulnerable to climate change but also contributes uniquely to it. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice

A worker stands near the NH3 Kraken, a tugboat powered by ammonia, on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, in Kingston, N.Y. (AP Photo/Alyssa Goodman)

Tugboat powered by ammonia sails for the first time, showing how to cut emissions from shipping

A worker turns excelsa coffee beans to dry near Nzara, South Sudan on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

As warming climate hammers coffee crops, this rare bean may someday be your brew

Swiss aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard touches Climate Impulse, a plane powered by liquid hydrogen, at the press presentation of the project in a hangar in Les Sables d'Olonne, France, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Yohan Bonnet)

Innovators gear up work on ‘green’ hydrogen plane with plans for nonstop 9-day trip around Earth

Runners pass a table with reusable silicone cups from Hiccup during the PNC Women Run the Cities race on Saturday, May 17, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

This runner was bothered by blizzard of disposable cups at races. She invented something better

Kamala Kadria, third from right, a woman from the Gadaba Indigenous community, points to a spot on a map they made as others look on in Hatipakna village, Koraput district, in India's eastern state of Odisha, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

In India, Indigenous women and their ‘dream maps’ seek to protect lands from climate change

Joel Caldwell, left, sits with his daughter, Land, third from right, along with Raya Scott, second from right, and Agnes Suárez while observing pollinators Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

How friends in South Carolina are restoring a wetland and bringing their neighborhood together

Rollbacks of U.S. environmental regulations and potential impact

The Gibson Power Plant operates Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Princeton, Ind. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Takeaways from AP examination showing benefits, costs of rules Trump EPA wants to change

A bulldozer moves coal Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Princeton, Ind. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Trump EPA rollbacks would weaken rules projected to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives

The Rockport Power Plant operates Wednesday, April 9, 2025, in Rockport, Ind. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

How AP calculated the costs and death toll of EPA rule rollbacks

The Warrick Power Plant operates Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Newburgh, Ind. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Planet-warming emissions dropped when companies had to report them. EPA wants to end that

Searching for fresh water

The bow of the Gaspee, a crew transport vessel, is seen as it approaches the Liftboat Robert platform and Expedition 501 in the North Atlantic, Saturday, July 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Scientists tap ‘secret’ fresh water under the ocean, raising hopes for a thirsty world

Expedition 501 member Verena Heuer looks out from the bridge of the Gaspee, a crew transport vessel, as it travels along Sakonnet River near Portsmouth, R.I., during the eight-hour trip to the Liftboat Robert platform in the North Atlantic, Saturday, July 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Takeaways from a hunt for ‘secret’ fresh water under the North Atlantic seabed

Climate story collaboration between MIT and AP

David Stoff and Ann McDonald, activists, look out at the water in the Alewife Brook Reservation by a sewage outfall on Friday, March 13, 2026, in Cambridge, Mass. (Lucie McCormick/MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing via AP)

Massachusetts is dumping sewage into waterways. Grassroots organizations are fighting back

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Glorianna Davenport, founder of the Living Observatory, overlooks a stream cutting through Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary in Plymouth, Mass., Saturday, March 14, 2026. (Julia Vaz/MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing via AP)

How a retired cranberry bog helped change the game for wetland restoration

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Oliver Dixon harvests kelp lines in Point Judith, R.I., Friday, March 20, 2026. (Zoe Beketova/MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing via AP)

Planes and ships could run on kelp someday, but there are serious hurdles

Amanda Joly, right, gives a tour to Naomi Jang, left, and Miles Abel, center, at the Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center, Saturday, March 14, 2026, in Milton, Mass. (Laura Martin Agudelo/MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing via AP)

One of America’s oldest weather observatories shows people the science behind our climate

Climate story collaboration between RIT and AP

A cow, left, nudges dairy farmer Jeremy Brown as he inseminates a cow at Twin Birch Dairy on Friday, March 21, 2025, in Skaneateles, N.Y. (Caitlyn Daproza via AP)

Less farmland is going for organic crops as costs and other issues take root

An increasing number of American farmers are turning away from growing organic. America’s certified organic acreage fell almost 11% between 2019 and 2021.

Solar panels operate at Fox Run Vineyards and Seneca Lake, Friday, March 21, 2025, in Penn Yan, N.Y. (Natasha Kaiser via AP)

Vineyards in NY wine country push sustainability as they adapt to climate change

Renee Colon lifts coffee beans from the cooling tray of a roasting machine at Fuego Coffee Roasters' roasting facility in Rochester, N.Y., Friday, March 21, 2025. (Max Conway via AP)

Climate change is making coffee more expensive. Tariffs likely will too

Jasmin Singer, left, and Moore Rhys, right, pose for a portrait on Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Rochester, N.Y. (Toni Duncan via AP)

‘All kinds of nutty about climate.’ New York’s Rochester draws residents fleeing extreme weather

John Bateman, a wildlife professor, holds a spring peeper Friday, March 28, 2025, in Honeoye, N.Y. (AP Photo/Maryel Pryce)

Habitat loss and climate change make it tough to be an amphibian. Some humans are helping

Indigenous peoples: adapting to and combatting climate change

Berta Sanyi and Paula Hamadi, left, stand chest deep in water as they collect clams in a mangrove forest where only women are permitted to enter in Jayapura, Papua province, Indonesia on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Papuan women’s mangrove forest in Indonesia is increasingly threatened by development and pollution

An Ashaninka Indigenous man applies face paint during the annual celebration recognizing the Ashaninka territory in the Apiwtxa village, Acre state, Brazil, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

The Amazon’s Ashaninka tribe restored their territory. Now they aim to change the region

Mark Ojibway wades in shallow water looking for walleye during the spring spearfishing season at the Chippewa Flowage on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, Sunday, April 14, 2024, near Hayward, Wis. Walleye numbers in some lakes are dwindling due to warming waters, increasingly variable seasonal changes and lakeshore development. Losing the species would mean losing a food source for Ojibwe and other Indigenous people, a sovereign right to fish and a deep connection to tradition and nature. (AP Photo/John Locher)

As climate change alters lakes, tribes and conservationists fight for the future of spearfishing

Luciane Mengual, 22, an Indigenous woman from the Wayuu community, poses with her baby at home in the Villa del Sur neighborhood, on the outskirts of Riohacha, Colombia, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Droughts, floods and economic uncertainty: Portraits of the Wayuu people in northern Colombia

CORRECTS LAST NAME TO ATENE FROM BLACK - Robert Atene, left, with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, supervises as a volunteer crew lifts a power line pole, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, on the Navajo Nation in Halchita, Utah. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

On Navajo Nation, a push to electrify more homes on the vast reservation

Charles Alexie stands along the coastal erosion that has eaten away at the riverbanks on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, in Newtok, Alaska. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Climate change destroyed an Alaska village. Its residents are starting over in a new town

Miccosukee Tribal elder Michael Frank speaks to members of a task force that brings together federal, state, tribal and local agencies working to restore and protect the Florida Everglades, on a field visit to the Miccosukee Indian Reservation ahead of a task force meeting hosted by the Miccosukee Tribe, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

In Florida, the Miccosukee fight to protect the Everglades in the face of climate change

A boy looks out from the window of his house on Kabaena Island, Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Yusuf Wahil)

Global demand spurring Indonesia’s mining boom comes at a cost for many communities

Chasing hail storms to learn about the costly weather events

Joey Toniolo ducks from falling hail as he moves back to Northern Illinois University's Husky Hail Hunter vehicle during a Project ICECHIP operation Friday, June 6, 2025, in Morton, Texas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Ping, ping ping. Here’s what it’s like to drive into a big hailstorm in the name of science

Tony Illenden crouches outside Northern Illinois University's Husky Hail Hunter to scoop hail into a bag while in a hailstorm during a Project ICECHIP operation Friday, June 6, 2025, in Levelland, Texas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Crushing it. What do you do with 4,000 hailstones that you collect while chasing storms

The Project ICECHIP command vehicle drives toward an approaching rainstorm with a rain shaft during an operation Tuesday, June 3, 2025, near Tipton, Okla. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

PHOTO ESSAY: Behind-the-scenes moments as hail chasers learn about pounding and costly storms

Retired National Weather Service forecaster David Imy gestures to an approaching storm during a Project ICECHIP operation Tuesday, June 3, 2025, near Tipton, Okla. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Storm chasers drive into extreme weather to study hail that causes billions in annual damage

Extreme weather and its impact on humans

Danny Westergaard, left, cools of with water with pacing help from daughter Madison Westergaard as the sun rises during the Badwater 135 Ultramarathon, Tuesday, July 8, 2025, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. (AP Photo/John Locher)

The grueling 135-mile journey of a 66-year-old runner through one of the hottest places on Earth

Waste pickers Salmaa and Usmaan Shekh, right, search for recyclable materials during a heat wave at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Shekh and his family are among millions of people who scratch out a living searching through India's waste — and climate change is making a hazardous job more dangerous than ever. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

For India’s garbage pickers, a miserable and dangerous job made worse by extreme heat

Zariah Fields eats a popsicle, Thursday, June 20, 2024, at YMCA Camp Kern in Oregonia, Ohio. As the first heat wave of the season ripples across the U.S., summer camps are working to keep their children cool while still letting the kids enjoy being outside with nature. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Summer camps are for getting kids outdoors, but more frequent heat waves force changes

Margarita Salazar, 82, wipes the sweat off with a tissue inside her home amid high heat in Veracruz, Mexico, on June 16, 2024. Human-caused climate change intensified and made far more likely this month's killer heat with triple digit temperatures, a new flash study found Thursday, June 20. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Climate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer and 35 times more likely

Kali Prasad Shrestha, 57, stands near Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024, on the spot where his house once stood before it was swept away by floods in 2021.(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Cascading disasters push residents of a Nepalese valley to the brink

Isaac Barnes works with his honeybee hives Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in Williamsport, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Bees have some ways to cope with a warming Earth, but researchers fear for their future

Kunzang Angmo poses for a picture with her yak in Korzak village, Ladakh, India, Monday, July 7, 2025. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

High in India’s Himalayan mountains, yak herders struggle to survive a warming world

Kayla McDonald, right, uses a small electric fan to keep cool while taking bridal portraits with her sister, Jessica McDonald, left, before her wedding Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025, in Newtown, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Melting makeup, sweaty tuxes and overheating guests are shifting summer weddings

A wind turbine base is visible at Sunrise Wind offshore wind farm that is under construction off the coast of Montauk Point, New York, April 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

Trump cites national security to stop offshore wind development. Here’s what to know

Bryan Pérez hauls a five-gallon water jug to his apartment in the Villa Kennedy public housing complex in San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Danica Coto, File)

Puerto Rico announces emergency water rationing as drought worsens

A general view of street mall during poor air quality due to dense smoke from Canadian wildfires in Glenview, Ill., Thursday, July 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) CORRECTION: Glenview, not Northbrook

Canadian wildfire smoke turns air hazardous in the US Midwest. Officials say stay inside

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This 2023 photo provided by Old Dominion University shows Professor Kent Carpenter. (Chuck Thomas/Old Dominion University via AP)

Suspects arrested in the Philippines over killing of US marine biologist

South Africa's Koeberg nuclear power station on the outskirts of the city of Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, File)

No radiation leak after ‘contamination’ events at Africa’s only nuclear plant, regulator says

Flooding blocks off G Street along the Guadalupe River on Thursday, July 16, 2026, in Kerrville, Texas. (AP Photo/Joel Angel Juarez)

At least 1 person has died as Texas flooding forces evacuations and rescues, governor says

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Minnesota DNR opens comment period on nickel mine near pristine waters. Here’s how to weigh in.

Maine is ramping up effort to reduce packaging in landfills. Will towns participate?

Members of the Boerne Fire Dept. rescue a woman from flood waters on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, in Boerne, Texas. (AP Photo/Darren Abate)

Flooding forces evacuations in parts of South Texas as slow-moving storms swamp the region

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A view of a burnt area affected by wildfires in Bedar, near Almeria, Spain, Saturday, July 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Marrero)

Spanish authorities identify all 13 victims of deadly southern fire

This satellite image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Tropical Storm Elida on Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (NOAA via AP)

Tropical Storm Elida forms in the Pacific Ocean and poses no threat to land as it strengthens

Willy Vosburgh, owner of Vosburgh's Custom Cabin Rentals on Moose Lake, uses a tow boat to evacuate canoeists from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness after multiple wildfires burning there prompted its closure and evacuation Tuesday, July 14, 2026 in Ely, Minn. (Anthony Souffle/Minnesota Star Tribune via AP)

More than 100 wildfires burn in Canada, sending dangerous smoke into the US

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In this handout photo provided by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, game wardens walk through high waters from heavy rains in Uvalde County, Texas, on Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department via AP)

Texas is drenched by heavy rains as forecasters warn that more storms could bring dangerous floods

Tropical depression forms far offshore of Mexico and is forecast to strengthen

Bethany Letoto, business development lead at Ho'i, a returnable dish program, sets out the re-useable containers before an open house on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, in Hilo, Hawaii. (Kevin Fujii/Honolulu Civil Beat via AP)

Takeout Boxes Are Filling Landfills. This Town Has A Plan To Phase Them Out

A firefighter sprays water after a wildfire in the region of the Fontainebleau forest, south of Paris, France, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Emma Da Silva)

1,000 evacuated from Fontainebleau fires near Paris; Spanish authorities identify some fire victims

New York Governor Kathy Hochul participates in a ribbon cutting ceremony at the new JPMorgan Chase offices in New York, Oct. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

New York won’t build big data centers for a year as it weighs energy and climate risks

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Heavy rain collapses roof and kills 11 people in northwest Pakistan

Firefighters monitor the Aspen Acres Fire near Colorado City, Colo., as it begins to grow late on Thursday, July 2, 2026. (Michael Seamans/The Gazette via AP)

Busy wildfire season tests US fire bosses as they juggle resources to stay ahead

This photo provided by Farnoush Farhadi shows a Dalmatian pelican taking flight above the mangrove forests on Qeshm Island, Iran, in January 2025. (Farnoush Farhadi via AP)

War and economic crisis complicate efforts to protect Iran’s rich but endangered wildlife