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A miner walks in a shaft of the CSM coal mine in Stonava, Czech Republic, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Likely in its last decade, a Czech coal mine provides fuel for electricity and heat

With just the light of a headlamp, workers — their bodies and clothes covered in soot and dust — effortlessly navigate the mines, drilling the deposits underground. Others load cars to take the rocks to the surface, where huge piles of it lie ready to be transported to power plants.
 
The sun rises near Kariba dam in Siavonga, Zambia, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Drought is parching the world’s largest man-made lake, stripping Zambia of its electricity

 
Jackie Robinson, right, an instructor at the Energy Coordinating Agency, a nonprofit focused in part on energy equity, teaches a class at the facility on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Joe Lamberti)

Profiles in clean energy: Once incarcerated, expert moves students into climate-solution careers

 
FILE - People are rescued from an apartment complex after flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, Oct. 10, 2024, in Clearwater, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Climate change gave significant boost to Milton’s destructive rain, winds, scientists say

 
Bernardino Mosquera, a river guardian, maneuvers his boat on the Quito River, near Paimado, Colombia, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Colombia’s river guardians battle to protect the Atrato amid threats and abandonment

 
In this image provided the. the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), geologist deployed to the rim looking over the evening views of lava fountaining from Haleumaumau Crater at the summit of Kilauea volcano inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii., on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. ( J. Barnett/U.S. Geological Survey via AP)

In it’s 10th episode, Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, is again spewing lava

Kilauea volcano is shooting lava into the air once again in Hawaii. Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. It has been erupting on and off for nearly two months since it burst to life on Dec. 23.
 
A green sea turtle being treated for cold stunning is seen swimming in a tank at Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, Fla. on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Cody Jackson)

Sea turtles return to the Atlantic Ocean off Florida after being stunned by the cold

 
Walt Traywick uses an axe to break up frozen water in a stock tank while working on his farm Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, in Luther, Okla. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Polar vortex makes much of US colder than Greenland, but warmth is coming. Then more cold

 
The SS United States is towed down the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey, from Philadelphia, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Historic ocean liner departs Philadelphia on voyage to become the world’s largest artificial reef

 
Signs, including some advising drivers of congestion pricing tolls, are displayed near the exit of the Lincoln Tunnel in New York, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Trump administration orders halt to NYC toll meant to fight traffic and fund mass transit

 

Trump administration orders halt to New York City’s congestion pricing system, which uses tolls to fund mass transit

 

EU publishes farming sector reform ‘vision’ which aims to cut red tape and redistribute subsidies

 
Polly Mae Pollock, 5, sleds down a hill at Byrd Park, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, in Richmond, Va. (Margo Wagner/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Winter-weary East Coast hit with another storm as temperatures plunge elsewhere

 
Construction workers walk outside a data center building under construction in Johor Bahru town at Johor state, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Malaysia is betting on data centers to boost its economy. But experts warn they come at a price.

 
Ousmane Sambou, a sergeant with Senegal's Direction of National Parks, holds up a confiscated leopard skin at the DPN headquarters in Tambacounda, Senegal on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

Mystical beliefs fuel Senegal’s illegal big cat trade and threaten lion’s survival in West Africa

 
This photo provided by New Haven Police Department shows an underweight baby seal that was found at Chapel Street and East Street in New Haven Conn. on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (Officer Zerella/New Haven Police Department via AP)

Underweight baby seal is rescued from Connecticut streets and recovering at an aquarium

 
In this undated photo, a rainbow appears after a hike to the top of Old Rag Mountain in Shenandoah National Park near Sperryville in Madison County, Va. (Frank Green/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP, File)

Trump’s firing of 1,000 national park workers raises concerns about maintenance and operating hours

 
A view of four our central Oregon Cascade Mountain Range peaks, from left, Broken Top, South Sister, Middle Sister and North Sister, as seen from near Sisters, Ore., April 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

2 backcountry skiers are killed in an Oregon avalanche

 
A green sea turtle being treated for cold stunning is seen swimming in a tank at Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, Fla. on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Cody Jackson)

Sea turtles return to the Atlantic Ocean off Florida after being stunned by the cold

 
Addisun Cole, 8, plays with Little Bit, her grandmother's cat, outside the trailer of her grandmother, Vickie Revis, where Revis is living after her home was destroyed by Hurricane Helene, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in Swannanoa, N.C. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek, File)

Wisconsin Republicans propose $10K income tax break for hurricane and wildfire relocations

 

As Texas’ energy demand soars, a pilot program looks to bolster grid with “virtual power plants”

 
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers gives the annual State of the State address, Jan. 22, 2025, at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Wisconsin’s Democratic governor calls for tax cuts, pushback on Trump’s tariffs

 
Capuava oil refinery owned by Petrobras sits in Maui, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations

 
With temperatures below zero, steam rises over Lake Michigan Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Arctic air sweeping south over Plains shatters record temperatures in North Dakota

 
Firefighter Joshua Cari sprays water while battling the Lilac Fire near the Bonsall community of San Diego County, Calif., Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

How better water systems can help a city survive the next firestorm

 
Smoke billows from an oil refinery in Kawasaki, southwest of Tokyo, on Oct. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Japan adopts new carbon reduction targets as it plans to boost nuclear and renewable energy by 2040

 
A general view of Thames Water plant in Twickenham, London, Wednesday, June 28, 2023.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Judge approves emergency plan to keep Britain’s largest water company afloat

 
A ship sails past large icebergs near the city of Ilulissat, Greenland, Wednesday Feb.19, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

PHOTO COLLECTION: Greenland Daily Life

 
People flock to Ipanema beach during summer in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Rio de Janeiro’s hottest day in at least a decade sends residents to the beach

 
Lisa Muscat carries her dog Zoey to safety after a water main break in Detroit caused massive flooding, triggering evacuations, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (Andy Morrison/Detroit News via AP)

What is a polar vortex? US gets a taste of the Arctic this week

 
Crews with Tombigbee Electric continue to restore power to homes along Lee County Rd 154 after Saturday's severe weather hit the region in Shannon Miss., Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (Thomas Wells/The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal via AP)

‘Life-threatening cold’ hits parts of US following deadly weekend flooding

 
An aerial view shows the devastation from the Palisades Fire on beachfront homes Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025 in Malibu, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Scientists are racing to discover the depth of ocean damage sparked by the LA wildfires

 
Cars sit in floodwaters at a railroad underpass in Louisville, Ky., Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

At least 9 people are dead, including 8 in Kentucky, in latest blast of winter weather

 
A young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe appears on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025, in Bela Rosa, in Brazil’s Amazon. (AP Photo)

Isolated Indigenous man returns to tribe in the Amazon rainforest after brief contact

 
This March 10, 2015, file photo shows the Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Vernon, Calif. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

As Trump administration reforms the EPA, cleanups of America’s most toxic sites are uncertain

 
President Donald Trump walks from the Oval Office to departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump creates council for ‘energy dominance,’ boosts natural gas exports and offshore drilling

 
A geothermal site is under construction in Geretsried, Germany, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Major test case for new geothermal technology launches in small German town

 

Texas’ energy demand may exceed supply in 2026, but experts caution against panic

 

Many Nebraskans still under threat of high nitrate in drinking water, report finds

 
A person walks along the shore of ice covered Lake Michigan, Feb. 13, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Very cold weather is coming. US about to get 10th and chilliest polar vortex this winter