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Solutions In Your Community

Watch ‘Solutionaries’ to see solutions to rising sea levels, transit and in the courtroom

Read full article: Watch ‘Solutionaries’ to see solutions to rising sea levels, transit and in the courtroom

We're sharing the latest solutions-based stories from our series.

(AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Images highlight just how drastic change in Great Lakes ice coverage has been in recent years

Read full article: Images highlight just how drastic change in Great Lakes ice coverage has been in recent years

Ice coverage for all the Great Lakes was at historical lows, with the coldest of the lakes — Lake Superior — having just 1% ice coverage as of Tuesday. The historical average is 40%.

A reindeer calf rests at a farm in Lulea, Sweden, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Malin Haarala)
9 hours ago

Sweden's plans to mine rare-earth minerals could ruin the lives of Indigenous Sami reindeer herders

Read full article: Sweden's plans to mine rare-earth minerals could ruin the lives of Indigenous Sami reindeer herders

An expanding iron-ore mine and a deposit of rare-earth minerals are fragmenting the land in northern Sweden and altering ancient reindeer migration routes.

This GOES-West GeoColor satellite image taken Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, at 11 a.m. EDT and provided by NOAA, shows Hurricane Kiko churning over open waters in the Pacific Ocean. (NOAA via AP)
1 day ago

Hurricane Kiko surges back to a Category 4 as forecasters monitor potential impacts on Hawaii

Read full article: Hurricane Kiko surges back to a Category 4 as forecasters monitor potential impacts on Hawaii

Hurricane Kiko has intensified again to a Category 4 hurricane in the Pacific Ocean.

In this undated photo provided by the Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the Eastern Amazon, a home belonging to an uncontacted Indigenous group is visible in the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon. (ORPIO via AP)
1 day ago

Peru rejects creation of Amazon reserve to protect uncontacted tribes, drawing Indigenous outcry

Read full article: Peru rejects creation of Amazon reserve to protect uncontacted tribes, drawing Indigenous outcry

Peru’s Congress has rejected a long-delayed proposal to create the Yavari Mirim Indigenous Reserve.

The wireline drilling core barrel is visible from the underside of the Liftboat Robert platform, from the Gaspee, a crew transport vessel, in the North Atlantic, Saturday, July 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
2 days ago

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

Read full article: Scientists tap 'secret' fresh water under the ocean, raising hopes for a thirsty world

Scientists conducting a first-of-its-kind drilling operation have extracted samples of fresh water hiding in massive reservoirs deep under the ocean.

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein speaks at the Land of Sky Regional Council, Aug. 20, 2025, Fletcher, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
2 days ago

A Democratic governor, a Republican legislature: How Josh Stein navigates North Carolina politics

Read full article: A Democratic governor, a Republican legislature: How Josh Stein navigates North Carolina politics

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein is taking a more collaborative approach with Republican opponents in his first eight months in office despite disagreeing with them on many issues.

Workers put switches and connectors after they come out of automated framing at a ReNew solar panel manufacturing plant on the outskirts of Jaipur, India, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
2 days ago

India’s solar industry, aiming to compete with China, finds strength as US tariffs hit home

Read full article: India’s solar industry, aiming to compete with China, finds strength as US tariffs hit home

India’s clean energy appetite is helping the country’s solar power industry wean itself off imported Chinese parts and continue growing even as it faces a tougher sell to its biggest foreign customer, the United States.

This GeoColor satellite image taken Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, at 11:20 a.m. EDT and provided by NOAA, shows Tropical Storm Lorena off the coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula. (NOAA via AP)
2 days ago

Lorena is downgraded to a tropical storm but still poses a flooding and mudslide threat to Mexico

Read full article: Lorena is downgraded to a tropical storm but still poses a flooding and mudslide threat to Mexico

Lorena has weakened to a tropical storm, but forecasters warn of life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides in parts of Mexico's Baja California peninsula.

A drone view shows dramatically low water levels at Lake Qaraoun, one of the Lebanon's largest reservoirs, in Qaraoun village, eastern Lebanon, on Aug. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
2 days ago

The worst drought in decades is threatening Syria's fragile recovery from years of civil war

Read full article: The worst drought in decades is threatening Syria's fragile recovery from years of civil war

The eastern Mediterranean and Middle East are in the grips of one of their worst droughts in decades, which is drying rivers and lakes, shriveling crops and even leading to water cutoffs in major cities.

FILE - A Kapalua Ridge Villas sign is viewed on Oct. 3, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin, File)
2 days ago

Kapalua golf course without irrigation for 7 days under worsening water restrictions

Read full article: Kapalua golf course without irrigation for 7 days under worsening water restrictions

Kapalua Golf Resort has been without irrigation water for seven days as it grows worried about keeping the Plantation course in shape for the PGA Tour season opener.

Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee, center, speaks with Laborers' International Union of North America leaders Donato Bianco, left, and Michael Sabitoni, right, after a news conference in North Kingstown, R.I., on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. Democratic politicians and union leaders called on the Trump administration to allow work to continue on the Revolution Wind offshore wind farm. (AP Photo/Jennifer McDermott)
2 days ago

States and developer sue the Trump administration for halting work on New England offshore wind farm

Read full article: States and developer sue the Trump administration for halting work on New England offshore wind farm

Rhode Island, Connecticut and the developer of an offshore wind farm that would power 350,000 homes in the two states are suing the Trump administration for stopping the nearly completed project.

FILE - A home burns in the Eaton Fire in Altadena, Calif., Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Nic Coury, File)
2 days ago

Federal government sues California utility, alleging equipment sparked deadly wildfires

Read full article: Federal government sues California utility, alleging equipment sparked deadly wildfires

The federal government has filed two lawsuits against Southern California Edison, alleging the utility’s equipment sparked fires in the Los Angeles area that destroyed thousands of structures and killed 17 people.

An iceberg, known as A23a, top, seen on a NASA satellite, is visible near South Georgia Island, bottom, on Sept. 1, 2025, off the coast of Antarctica. (NASA Worldview via AP)
2 days ago

Most enduring and biggest iceberg breaks apart, with more splintering to come in its death spiral

Read full article: Most enduring and biggest iceberg breaks apart, with more splintering to come in its death spiral

The world's largest iceberg, A23A, is breaking into smaller pieces and may not last beyond November.

Villagers wade through a flooded area, in Tiba Gheal village, in Jhang district, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Jahan Zeb)
3 days ago

Half a million people flee their homes in Pakistan’s Punjab to escape flooding

Read full article: Half a million people flee their homes in Pakistan’s Punjab to escape flooding

Officials say rivers are swelling to dangerous levels in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, forcing more than half a million people to flee their homes in the past 24 hours.

FILE - Household goods are strewn around next to buildings damaged by flash floods in Chositi village, Kishtwar district, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)
3 days ago

Powerful rain and floods devastate northern India as experts blame climate change

Read full article: Powerful rain and floods devastate northern India as experts blame climate change

Heavy rains have led to some of the worst flooding and landslides in decades in large parts of Northern India.

Villagers wade through a flooded area, in Tiba Gheal village, in Jhang district, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Jahan Zeb)
3 days ago

300,000 more people evacuated in eastern Pakistan after a new Indian flood alert

Read full article: 300,000 more people evacuated in eastern Pakistan after a new Indian flood alert

Officials say nearly 300,000 people have been evacuated in the past 48 hours from flood-hit areas of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, bringing the total number displaced since last month to 1.3 million.

FILE - Firefighters battle a wildfire in Veiga das Meas, northwestern Spain, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar, File)
3 days ago

Climate change made heat and dryness that fueled Iberian wildfires 40 times more likely, study finds

Read full article: Climate change made heat and dryness that fueled Iberian wildfires 40 times more likely, study finds

A new study says climate change has made extreme weather conditions, like those fueling wildfires in the Iberian Peninsula, 40 times more likely.

This satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows Hurricane Kiko, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. (NOAA via AP)
3 days ago

Hurricane Kiko intensifies to a Category 4 in the Pacific Ocean, forecasters say

Read full article: Hurricane Kiko intensifies to a Category 4 in the Pacific Ocean, forecasters say

The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Kiko is now a Category 4 storm in the Pacific.

In this Monday, Sept. 1, 2025, photo provided by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army, people gather at the site of a landslide from Aug. 31, that wiped out the village of Tarasin in the Marrah Mountains of Central Darfur, Sudan. (Sudan Liberation Movement/Army via AP)
3 days ago

About 100 bodies recovered from landslide-hit village in Sudan's Darfur as pope urges help

Read full article: About 100 bodies recovered from landslide-hit village in Sudan's Darfur as pope urges help

Search teams have recovered around 100 bodies from a remote village in Sudan's Darfur region after a landslide devastated the area over the weekend.

CLIMATE


A reindeer calf rests at a farm in Lulea, Sweden, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Malin Haarala)
9 hours ago

Sweden's plans to mine rare-earth minerals could ruin the lives of Indigenous Sami reindeer herders

Read full article: Sweden's plans to mine rare-earth minerals could ruin the lives of Indigenous Sami reindeer herders
In this undated photo provided by the Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the Eastern Amazon, a home belonging to an uncontacted Indigenous group is visible in the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon. (ORPIO via AP)
1 day ago

Peru rejects creation of Amazon reserve to protect uncontacted tribes, drawing Indigenous outcry

Read full article: Peru rejects creation of Amazon reserve to protect uncontacted tribes, drawing Indigenous outcry
The wireline drilling core barrel is visible from the underside of the Liftboat Robert platform, from the Gaspee, a crew transport vessel, in the North Atlantic, Saturday, July 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
2 days ago

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

Read full article: Scientists tap 'secret' fresh water under the ocean, raising hopes for a thirsty world
This GOES-West GeoColor satellite image taken Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, at 11 a.m. EDT and provided by NOAA, shows Hurricane Kiko churning over open waters in the Pacific Ocean. (NOAA via AP)
1 day ago

Hurricane Kiko surges back to a Category 4 as forecasters monitor potential impacts on Hawaii

Read full article: Hurricane Kiko surges back to a Category 4 as forecasters monitor potential impacts on Hawaii

NEWS HEADLINES


FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2011 photo, Mark Volman teaches a class in music management at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, file)
49 minutes ago

Mark Volman, who co-founded The Turtles and performed with Flo & Eddie, has died at 78

Read full article: Mark Volman, who co-founded The Turtles and performed with Flo & Eddie, has died at 78
Photo of Gilberto Rodrigue and his suspected vehicle.
1 hour ago

Police searching for suspect following fatal shooting in Roanoke

Read full article: Police searching for suspect following fatal shooting in Roanoke
Ohio State quarterback Lincoln Kienholz takes a snap against Grambling State during the second half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
1 hour ago

The AP Top 25 college football poll is coming up fast. How far will No. 13 Florida drop?

Read full article: The AP Top 25 college football poll is coming up fast. How far will No. 13 Florida drop?
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One injured after car hit by train in Altavista

Read full article: One injured after car hit by train in Altavista
After recovering from health problems a 230 pound loggerhead turtle named June Cleaver is released in the Atlantic Ocean by the Brevard Zoo's Turtle Healing Center Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, in Melbourne, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
3 days ago

June Cleaver the loggerhead turtle is released into the ocean off Florida after rehab

Read full article: June Cleaver the loggerhead turtle is released into the ocean off Florida after rehab

Marine biologists on Florida's Space Coast have released June Cleaver, a 230-pound loggerhead turtle, back into the ocean.

A female jumps towards the carbon pole to cross a body of water during a Fierljeppen competition in Kockengen, Netherlands, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought

Read full article: Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought

A new study says the world has far fewer places to securely store carbon dioxide deep underground than previously thought, steeply lowering its potential to help stem global warming.

In this Monday, Sept. 1, 2025, photo provided by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army, people gather at the site of a landslide from Aug. 31, that wiped out the village of Tarasin in the Marrah Mountains of Central Darfur, Sudan. (Sudan Liberation Movement/Army via AP)

Sudan appeals for aid after landslide kills more than 1,000 people in single village in Darfur

Read full article: Sudan appeals for aid after landslide kills more than 1,000 people in single village in Darfur
Rescue workers evacuate villagers from a flooded area in Muza Islam Wala, in Jhang district, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

India warns Pakistan of more cross-border flooding due to heavy monsoon rains

Read full article: India warns Pakistan of more cross-border flooding due to heavy monsoon rains

India has warned Pakistan about possible cross-border flooding for the second time in as many weeks as monsoon deluges cause death and widespread destruction in both countries.

Villagers shelter after being evacuated from a flooded area after torrential rains and rising water level in the rivers due to sudden water releases from Indian dams in Pindi Bhattian, Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/A. Rizvi)

Pakistani rescuers use drones to help evacuate thousands as floods devastate Punjab

Read full article: Pakistani rescuers use drones to help evacuate thousands as floods devastate Punjab

Emergency workers in Pakistan's Punjab province have used drones to find people stranded by massive floods.

This is a locator map for Afghanistan with its capital, Kabul. (AP Photo)

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake shakes eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border

Read full article: A 6.0 magnitude earthquake shakes eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has shaken eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border.

Villagers wade through a flooded area after torrential rains and rising water level in the rivers due to water release from Indian dams, in Pindi Bhattian, Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/A. Rizvi)

Pakistan's Punjab province battered by its biggest flood with 2 million people at risk

Read full article: Pakistan's Punjab province battered by its biggest flood with 2 million people at risk

Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province is experiencing its worst flood in history, according to a senior official.

In this image taken from video released by the USDA, Gray wolves halt an attack on a cow at an undisclosed location along the Oregon/California border after a drone emits noises at them as part of efforts by the USDA to monitor predators at night and repel them from livestock by non-lethal means. (USDA via AP)

Drones blasting AC/DC and Scarlett Johansson are helping biologists protect cattle from wolves

Read full article: Drones blasting AC/DC and Scarlett Johansson are helping biologists protect cattle from wolves

Biologists are using drones to scare wolves away from cattle.

People relax at Rehoboth Beach, Del., on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Mingson Lau)

Taking a dip Labor Day weekend? Swimmers face fecal contamination at beaches along US coastline

Read full article: Taking a dip Labor Day weekend? Swimmers face fecal contamination at beaches along US coastline

Thousands of Americans will head to beaches for one last summer splash this Labor Day weekend, and many of them will arrive at beaches where swimming is not advised because of unsafe levels of fecal contamination.

FILE - The Norwegian Jewel, background, is docked in Honolulu, March 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)

Cruise industry group sues to challenge Hawaii's tourism tax designed to deal with climate change

Read full article: Cruise industry group sues to challenge Hawaii's tourism tax designed to deal with climate change

A lawsuit challenges Hawaii's new tourist tax on cruise ship passengers, claiming it is unconstitutional.

FILE - Rebecca DeWhitt charges her electric vehicle on Sept. 30, 2022, in the driveway of the Portland, Ore., home she rents. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File)

Oregon could join Hawaii in mandating pay-per-mile fees for EV owners as gas tax projections fall

Read full article: Oregon could join Hawaii in mandating pay-per-mile fees for EV owners as gas tax projections fall

Oregon lawmakers gathered in Salem on Friday for a special session focused on transportation funding.

FILE - Environmental Protection Agency employees and their supporters take part in a national march against actions taken by the Trump administration March 25, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

EPA fires employees who publicly criticized agency policies under Trump

Read full article: EPA fires employees who publicly criticized agency policies under Trump

The Environmental Protection Agency has fired at least eight employees who signed a letter criticizing the agency’s leadership under Administrator Lee Zeldin and President Donald Trump.

FILE - The Salesforce Tower and skyline are shown behind the gasoline price board at a gas station in San Francisco, July 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

California energy regulators pause efforts to penalize oil companies for high profits

Read full article: California energy regulators pause efforts to penalize oil companies for high profits

California energy regulators are postponing implementation of a penalty on oil companies if their profits climb too high.

People form a second line parade during an event to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Friday, Aug. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

New Orleans marks 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with solemn memorials, uplifting music

Read full article: New Orleans marks 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with solemn memorials, uplifting music

Residents of New Orleans are marking the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's devastating landfall on the Gulf Coast.

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