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A drift boat with people fly fishing floats down the Yellowstone River, Friday, July 31, 2026, near Livingston, Montana. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Fishing closures are becoming routine as record heat warms rivers in the U.S. West

By Matthew Brown and Dorany Pineda - Associated Press

Supreme Court and climate change illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Justice Kagan should recuse herself in Suncor energy case

By Linnea Lueken and H. Sterling Burnett

A fire engine drives through smoke of a wildfire raging near Marcheprime, outside, Bordeaux, France, Sunday, July 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Emma Da Silva)

Macron holds crisis meeting as monster wildfires drive 250,000 from their homes

By Mark Carlson, Emma Da Silva and John Leicester - Associated Press

Annie Woods harvests eightball, a type of zucchini, as the sun sets Wednesday, July 1, 2026, at her farm in Brooksville, Ky. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Specialty farmers adapt harvests, protect crops in face of extreme heat

By Joshua A. Bickel - Associated Press

FILE - A person uses an umbrella to shield themselves from the sun during a heat advisory in Central Park, May 19, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Gray, File)

What makes a ‘heat dome’ and what does it mean?

By Alexa St. John - Associated Press

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

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

A woman visits the historical Spanish steps in Rome, Tuesday, June 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

How a heat dome is formed and why experts blame one for Europe’s baking temperatures

By Alexa St. John - Associated Press

FILE - Jorge Moreno, a worker, drinks flavored water to cope with the heat wave during his workday at a construction site in Veracruz, Mexico, on June 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez, File)

Mexico, Italy and others see up to two more months of heat stress than in the 1970s, study says

By Alexa St. John - Associated Press

FILE - People wade through a recreational vehicle park flooded by a king tide on Jan. 3, 2026, near Corte Madera in Marin County, Calif. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope, File)

Climate change makes once-rare coastal floods more likely, study says

By Alexa St. John - Associated Press

A barge on the Ohio River moves past the Mountaineer Power Plant, a coal-fired power plant near New Haven, W.Va., March 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

SEC moves to repeal rule that requires companies to report greenhouse gas emissions and climate risk

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Illustration on climate lawsuits by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

End leftist activists’ climate lawfare

By H. Sterling Burnett

The seal of the Dept of Justice is shown on the podium, Aug. 1, 2023, at an office of the Department of Justice in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Trump administration moves to block Minnesota climate change lawsuit against oil companies

By Todd Richmond - Associated Press

Demonstrators participate in a Make Polluters Pay campaign along the Caribbean Sea demanding oil companies pay for the energy transition during a nearby conference aimed at transitioning away from fossil fuels Monday, April 27, 2026, in Santa Marta, Colombia. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Colombia climate conference highlights lack of financing for shift from fossil fuels

By Steven Grattan - Associated Press

University of Vermont graduate student Delaney Bullock gathers runoff samples from two agricultural fields to be analyzed for nutrient concentrations on Thursday, March 12, 2026, in Bridport, Vt. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)

Warming winters lead to more nitrate pollution in the drinking water near farms

By Melina Walling - Associated Press

Pieces of ice move through the sea in Qoornoq Island, near Nuuk, Greenland, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

Arctic sea ice hits lowest winter level as unprecedented heat hits smashes records all over Earth

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 3, 2014 file photo giant machines dig for brown coal at the open-cast mining Garzweiler in front of a smoking power plant near the city of Grevenbroich in western Germany. The U.N. weather agency says carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere reached a record high in 2013. The World Meteorological Organization says the heat-trapping gas blamed for global warming was at global concentrations of 396 parts per million last year. That is an increase of 2.9 ppm from the previous year, which the Geneva-based agency reported Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014 was the biggest year-to-year change in three decades. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

EDITORIAL: Cooling the weather panic

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES