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FILE – The Kyger Creek Power Plant, a coal-fired power plant, operates April 14, 2025, near Cheshire, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

EPA’s job is to protect America’s air, water and land. Here’s how a shutdown affects that effort

October 1, 2025 at 11:10 a.m.

The Environmental Protection Agency was already reeling from massive stuff cuts and dramatic shifts in priority and policy. A government shutdown raises new questions about how it can carry out...

Al Ain’s Park Yong-woo splashes his face to cool off during the Club World Cup match on June 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

How climate change could force FIFA to rethink the World Cup calendar

July 16, 2025 at 8:56 a.m.

Scientists warn that staging the World Cup and other soccer tournaments in the Northern Hemisphere summer is getting increasingly dangerous for both players and spectators.

FILE – Dustin Holmes, second from right, holds hands with his girlfriend, Hailey Morgan, while returning to their flooded home with her children Aria Skye Hall, 7, right, and Kyle Ross, 4, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Sept. 27, 2024, in Crystal River, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

Turmoil, worry swirl over cuts to key federal agencies as hurricane season begins

May 31, 2025 at 8:40 a.m.

With predictions for a busy hurricane season beginning Sunday, experts in storms and disasters are worried about something potentially as chaotic as the swirling winds: Massive cuts to the federal...

Damaged equipment sits on a farm struck by Wednesday night’s tornado on Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Lake City, Ark. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)

Nearly half of National Weather Service offices have 20% vacancy rates, and experts say it’s a risk

April 4, 2025 at 5:38 p.m.

After Trump administration job cuts, nearly half of National Weather Service forecast offices have 20% vacancy rates — twice that of just a decade ago — as severe weather chugs...

Susie House, front, and David Hill hold up signs as they join hundreds of others during a large rally and protest outside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration campus Monday, March 3, 2025, in Boulder, Colo. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via AP)

US agency that monitors weather will cut another 1,000 jobs, AP sources say

March 11, 2025 at 5:07 p.m.

The Trump administration is starting another round of job cuts — this one more than 1,000 — at the nation’s weather, ocean and fisheries agency, four people familiar with the...

FILE – A vendor sleeps on a hot afternoon at her shop at Market 4 in Asuncion, Paraguay, Jan. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, File)

The US is freezing and La Nina usually eases warming. Earth just set another heat record anyway.

February 6, 2025 at 6:27 p.m.

The European climate service Copernicus says the world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly United States, a cooling La Nina and predictions of...

FILE – Fire crews monitor the Palisades Fire in Mandeville Canyon, Jan. 11, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Study says climate change made conditions that fed California wildfires more likely, more intense

January 28, 2025 at 6:30 p.m.

Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires, a scientific study found.

The CHS oil refinery is silhouetted against the setting sun Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in McPherson, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Earth records hottest year ever in 2024 — and the jump was so big it breached a key threshold

January 9, 2025 at 9:32 p.m.

Three government climate agencies in Europe and Japan say last year’s global average temperature easily passed 2023's record heat and kept pushing even higher.

A firefighter battles the Palisades Fire around a burned structure in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)

It’s not really the typical time for nasty California fires. What are the factors that changed that?

January 9, 2025 at 2:00 p.m.

Here's what experts say is turning Southern California's speedy wildfires into a deadly urban conflagration that is defying the calendar.

La tormenta invernal en Florence, Kentucky, el 6 de enero del 2025. (AP foto/Carolyn Kaster)

Por qué el calentamiento global podría traer más olas de frío

January 7, 2025 at 3:00 p.m.

Lo que realmente significa para la gente común en las áreas donde llega el frío: brrrrr.

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