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Heat waves like the one that's killed 14 in the southern US are becoming more frequent and enduring

PHOENIX (AP) — Heat waves like the one that engulfed parts of parts of the South and Midwest and killed more than a dozen people are becoming more common, and experts say the extreme weather events, which claim more lives than hurricanes and tornadoe

Jun 30, 2023 10:27 AM Read more >

Flooding in South Africa kills 7, and rescue crews are searching for another 7 missing people

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Seven people have died and another seven are missing after days of heavy rainfall triggered floods in and around the South African city of Durban, local government authorities said Friday.

Jun 30, 2023 8:19 AM Read more >

A California scholar's research into a flowering shrub took him to Mexico and a violent death

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For four years, Gabriel Trujillo trekked the breadth of the United States and south into Mexico in search of a flowering shrub called the common buttonbush. The plant is native to the varied climates of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

Jun 30, 2023 5:37 AM Read more >

Ukraine's Zelenskyy meets Greta Thunberg and others to address the war's effect on ecology

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Thursday with Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg and prominent European figures who are forming a working group to address ecological damage from the 16-month-old Russian inv

Jun 30, 2023 2:57 AM Read more >

Tropical Storm Beatriz forms off Mexico's Pacific coast and may soon become a hurricane

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Beatriz formed off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast Thursday and was forecast to strengthen into a hurricane by late Friday as it threatens the southwestern hip of Mexico.

Jun 29, 2023 9:56 PM Read more >

In rural India, summer's heat can be deadly. Ambulance crews see the toll up close

BANPUR, India (AP) — Siren blaring, Sunil Kumar Naik's ambulance tore across a dry and rocky countryside blasted by dangerous midday heat, rushing to check on a vomiting and dizzy 30-year-old man with possible heat stroke.

Jun 29, 2023 9:06 PM Read more >

Mexico acknowledges 112 heat-related deaths so far this year, almost triple the figures in 2022

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican health authorities say there have been at least 112 heat-related deaths so far this year, acknowledging the deadliness of a recent heat wave that the president previously said was being overblown by alarmist journalists.

Jun 29, 2023 8:16 PM Read more >

Dangerous heat and humidity is smothering much of the South and Midwest

As dangerous heat and humidity smothered parts of the South and Midwest on Thursday, local governments and charities worked to protect poor and elderly residents by opening cooling stations and delivering donated air conditioners.

Jun 29, 2023 8:02 PM Read more >

New Mexico regulators fine oil producer $40 million for burning off vast amounts of natural gas

SANTA FE, N.M.

Jun 29, 2023 5:49 PM Read more >

Double whammy of new climate policies in Atlantic Canada fuel political battle

OTTAWA — There is a clash of wills growing in Atlantic Canada over two new climate policies that take effect this weekend, with premiers demanding Ottawa put the brakes on the plan and the federal government accusing them of playing politics with the

Jun 29, 2023 4:45 PM Read more >