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A buffalo approaches Wade LeBeau and Jake Hill, right, during the buffalo release at the Eastern Shoshone Buffalo Enclosure, Friday, April 11, 2025, on the Wind River Reservation near Morton, Wyo. (AP Photo/Amber Baesler)

In Wyoming, the Eastern Shoshone tribe decided to classify buffalo as wildlife. Here is why

Earlier this month, the Eastern Shoshone voted to classify buffalo as wildlife instead of livestock.

Theodore Tanczuk, left, and Brayan Santos, right, of solar installer YellowLite, work to put panels on a home in Lakewood, Ohio, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

China dominates solar. Trump tariffs target China. For US solar industry, that means higher costs

A pair of bald eagles call out while resting on a tree next to Union Bay, Jan. 16, 2024, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

Proposed rule change on endangered species triggers alarm for environmentalists

Cut down trees lie within view of the Cordillera Azul National Park, seen in the background near Chambira community, in Peru's Amazon, Oct. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Amendment to Peru law raises fears of Amazon rainforest destruction

A sign for a BYD vehicle factory is displayed in Camacari, Bahia state, Brazil, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

As legacy of Ford fades in Brazil, China’s BYD looks to extend global lead in EV sales

Indigenous peoples: adapting to and combatting climate change

Berta Sanyi and Paula Hamadi, left, stand chest deep in water as they collect clams in a mangrove forest where only women are permitted to enter in Jayapura, Papua province, Indonesia on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Papuan women’s mangrove forest in Indonesia is increasingly threatened by development and pollution

An Ashaninka Indigenous man applies face paint during the annual celebration recognizing the Ashaninka territory in the Apiwtxa village, Acre state, Brazil, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

The Amazon’s Ashaninka tribe restored their territory. Now they aim to change the region

Mark Ojibway wades in shallow water looking for walleye during the spring spearfishing season at the Chippewa Flowage on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, Sunday, April 14, 2024, near Hayward, Wis. Walleye numbers in some lakes are dwindling due to warming waters, increasingly variable seasonal changes and lakeshore development. Losing the species would mean losing a food source for Ojibwe and other Indigenous people, a sovereign right to fish and a deep connection to tradition and nature. (AP Photo/John Locher)

As climate change alters lakes, tribes and conservationists fight for the future of spearfishing

Charles Alexie stands along the coastal erosion that has eaten away at the riverbanks on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, in Newtok, Alaska. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Climate change destroyed an Alaska village. Its residents are starting over in a new town

Luciane Mengual, 22, an Indigenous woman from the Wayuu community, poses with her baby at home in the Villa del Sur neighborhood, on the outskirts of Riohacha, Colombia, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Droughts, floods and economic uncertainty: Portraits of the Wayuu people in northern Colombia

CORRECTS LAST NAME TO ATENE FROM BLACK - Robert Atene, left, with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, supervises as a volunteer crew lifts a power line pole, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, on the Navajo Nation in Halchita, Utah. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

On Navajo Nation, a push to electrify more homes on the vast reservation

Miccosukee Tribal elder Michael Frank speaks to members of a task force that brings together federal, state, tribal and local agencies working to restore and protect the Florida Everglades, on a field visit to the Miccosukee Indian Reservation ahead of a task force meeting hosted by the Miccosukee Tribe, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

In Florida, the Miccosukee fight to protect the Everglades in the face of climate change

A boy looks out from the window of his house on Kabaena Island, Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Yusuf Wahil)

Global demand spurring Indonesia’s mining boom comes at a cost for many communities

VIDEOS

This rare coffee in South Sudan could resist climate change

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Indigenous Mayans want Yucatán cenotes to be given personhood status

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Innovators work on ‘green’ hydrogen plane

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How fire hydrants drying up affected the California wildfires

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Devastation from hard hit town in Mayotte

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We tried ‘sewage’ beer at the COP29 U.N. climate summit

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Hear from activists at COP29 on why they are fighting climate change

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Greta Thunberg holds protest against Azerbaijan’s hosting of COP29

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Small businesses say it’s hard to source ingredients for clean beauty

We asked people if they knew what COP29 is

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The future of Earth’s ecosystems is about to be decided in Colombia

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This underwater paradise in Mexico is under threat

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These are the origins of Earth Day

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Scientists study how to regrow a burned forest

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Climate solutions

A worker surveys Vo Van Van's rice fields after spraying fertilizer over the fields using a drone in Long An province in southern Vietnam's Mekong Delta, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. Using less water and using a drone to fertilize are new techniques that Van is trying and Vietnam hopes will help solve a paradox at the heart of growing rice: The finicky crop isn't just vulnerable to climate change but also contributes uniquely to it. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice

A worker walks in front of the 500-kilowatt battery energy storage system inside the Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages factory in Thiruvallur district, on the outskirts of Chennai, India, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

India has ramped up its wind and solar energy. It now needs to expand places to store it

Ed Yaker boils water on a Copper stove, an electric induction stove, on Feb. 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

New stove that plugs into a normal wall outlet could be major gain for health and the climate

A worker stands near the NH3 Kraken, a tugboat powered by ammonia, on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, in Kingston, N.Y. (AP Photo/Alyssa Goodman)

Tugboat powered by ammonia sails for the first time, showing how to cut emissions from shipping

A worker turns excelsa coffee beans to dry near Nzara, South Sudan on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

As warming climate hammers coffee crops, this rare bean may someday be your brew

Swiss aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard touches Climate Impulse, a plane powered by liquid hydrogen, at the press presentation of the project in a hangar in Les Sables d'Olonne, France, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Yohan Bonnet)

Innovators gear up work on ‘green’ hydrogen plane with plans for nonstop 9-day trip around Earth

The sailboat 'Grain de Sail II' sails off Saint Malo, western France, Nov. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Climate solution: Sails make a comeback in shipping, to dent its huge carbon footprint

Jesus Cuevas, a Petgas technician, puts plastic caps into a shredding machine inside a recycling center in Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico, Jan. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Mexican startup tackles plastic waste by converting it to fuel

Climate and the Arctic

A polar bear statue stands near a road, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

In the polar bear capital of the world, a community lives with the predator next door and loves it

A family stands near the Hudson Bay, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

As warming threatens polar bear tourism, a Canadian town adapts and thrives

The setting sun illuminates a mural of a polar bear on the side of an apartment building, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024, in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

How Churchill embraces its title as polar bear capital of the world

A beluga whale swims behind a boat through the Churchill River, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, near Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Offering a dose of healing, curious beluga whales frolic in a warming Hudson Bay

A polar bear nurses her cub, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, near Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

In the gateway to the Arctic, fat, ice and polar bears are crucial. All three are in trouble

Passengers relax inside the skyline car as the sun sets Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, between Churchill and Gilliam, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Manitoba’s train is a lifeline for many towns. Now tourists are also discovering the route

Extreme weather and its impact on humans

Runners compete in the Falmouth Road Race, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024, in Falmouth, Mass. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Runners are used to toughing it out. A warming climate can make that deadly

Phillip Laster Sr. holds a football in Brandon, Miss., Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, signed by teammates of his son Phillip Laster Jr., that was given to him on senior night after his passing. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Hotter summers are making high school football a fatal game for some players

Storm clouds build above a corn field Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, near Platte City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Sweaty corn is making it even more humid

Waste pickers Salmaa and Usmaan Shekh, right, search for recyclable materials during a heat wave at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Shekh and his family are among millions of people who scratch out a living searching through India's waste — and climate change is making a hazardous job more dangerous than ever. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

For India’s garbage pickers, a miserable and dangerous job made worse by extreme heat

Zariah Fields eats a popsicle, Thursday, June 20, 2024, at YMCA Camp Kern in Oregonia, Ohio. As the first heat wave of the season ripples across the U.S., summer camps are working to keep their children cool while still letting the kids enjoy being outside with nature. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Summer camps are for getting kids outdoors, but more frequent heat waves force changes

FILE - A man pours cold water onto his head to cool off on a sweltering hot day in the Mediterranean Sea in Beirut, Lebanon, July 16, 2023. As temperatures and humidity soar outside, what's happening inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

How does heat kill? It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart

Margarita Salazar, 82, wipes the sweat off with a tissue inside her home amid high heat in Veracruz, Mexico, on June 16, 2024. Human-caused climate change intensified and made far more likely this month's killer heat with triple digit temperatures, a new flash study found Thursday, June 20. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Climate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer and 35 times more likely

Kali Prasad Shrestha, 57, stands near Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024, on the spot where his house once stood before it was swept away by floods in 2021.(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Cascading disasters push residents of a Nepalese valley to the brink

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Shayanne Summers holds her dog Toph while wrapped in a blanket on Sept. 13, 2020, after staying several days in a tent at an evacuation center at the Milwaukie-Portland Elks Lodge in Oak Grove, Ore. Summers evacuated from near Molalla, Ore., which was threatened by the Riverside Fire. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Humans caused climate change. Amid the suffering, now they must solve it

Tourists swim in the cenote "Dos Ojos," or Two Eyes, on the outskirts of Playa del Carmen, Mexico, Saturday, March 9, 2024. These glowing sinkhole lakes, known as cenotes, are a part of one of Mexico's natural wonders: A fragile system of thousands of subterranean caverns, rivers, and lakes that wind beneath Mexico's southern Yucatan peninsula. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, a hidden underground world is under threat by the Maya Train

Esther Bote, 14, walks to school with her friends in a bushy area on the periphery of the Save Valley Conservancy in Zimbabwe, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. The conservancy and the country's parks agency have been running a program for school-age children on how to recognize danger signs and how to coexist with wildlife. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

In Zimbabwe, schoolchildren face threats from animals. Now they are learning how to spot the dangers

A whale shark swims through the waters off of Wolf Island, Ecuador, next to Enrique "Quike" Moran, a local naturalist from Santa Cruz Island, Ecuador in the Galapagos on Sunday, June 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Alie Skowronski)

The Galapagos Islands and many of their unique creatures are at risk from warming waters

Sumini, a leader of a female ranger group, uses a machete to clear the way during a forest patrol in Damaran Baru, Aceh province, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The patrol group was started by Sumini, who witnessed the devastating effects of deforestation on her local village. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

In Indonesia, women ranger teams go on patrol to slow deforestation

A Spix's macaw perches in a tree in a breeding facility project in its native habitat in a rural area of Curaca, Bahia state, Brazil, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. A South African couple is reintroducing the Spix’s macaw to nature through breeding and reintroduction efforts. Despite challenges such as habitat loss, climate change and government disagreements, they are working with local communities to return the bird to its native habitat. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Recovery of Brazil’s Spix’s macaw, popularized in animated ‘Rio’ films, threatened by climate change

A sequoia forest in Detroit? Plantings to improve air quality and mark Earth Day

Arborists are hoping to transform vacant land on Detroit’s eastside by planting giant sequoias, the world’s largest trees.

Lawsuits accuse insurers of colluding to drop coverage in fire-prone parts of California

Two lawsuits filed in Los Angeles accuse the major home insurers of colluding to limit coverage in high-risk areas across California.

Book Review: ‘Hope Dies Last’ visits visionaries fighting global warming

“Hope Dies Last” publishes on Earth Day this week and author Alan Weisman deserves applause for finding some truly inspirational people around the world pursuing projects combating pollution and other human-caused disruptions overheating our planet.

Trump’s transportation officials buck a long-held practice of using ‘road diets’ to slow speeders

Removing lanes to slow down speeding drivers is a long-embraced strategy for improving safety on city streets.

In Nigeria’s floating slum, ‘The Herds’ tour spotlights climate change where it’s felt the most

Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos.

An Asian elephant calf was born at Zurich Zoo and its name will start with the letter Z

The Zurich Zoo says a 19-year-old Asian elephant has given birth to a male calf. Its name starting with the letter Z will be announced later this week.

Tornado-producing storm deals deadly weather to Oklahoma and Texas

A slow-moving, active storm system has brought heavy rain, large hail and tornadoes to parts of Texas and Oklahoma and left three people dead.

15 years after Deepwater Horizon oil spill, lawsuits stall and restoration is incomplete

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, the effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history are still being felt.

Everglades restoration would protect Florida Keys while scientists watch drought conditions

The Everglades is more than just swamps, fan boats and alligators and restoration efforts impact more than the land between Florida’s east and west coasts.

Where do whale sharks mate? The search to learn where the magic happens for the world’s biggest fish

Nobody knows where whale sharks, the biggest fish in the sea, are mating.

Pupy the elephant arrives at a Brazil sanctuary after 30 years in Argentine zoo

Pupy the elephant has arrived at her new home in a sanctuary in Mato Grosso, Brazil, following a 2,700-kilometer journey from a zoo converted into an ecological park in Argentina’s capital where she had spent 30 years in conditions criticized by activists.

Nationals-Rockies game postponed by weather, to be made up in Sunday doubleheader

The game between the Colorado Rockies and Washington Nationals scheduled for Friday night was postponed because of inclement weather.

Fishers celebrate Trump’s seafood order while conservation groups fear overfishing

President Donald Trump’s executive order to boost the U.S. commercial fishing industry drew praise from commercial fishing groups and condemnation from environmental organizations.

China and Cambodia agree on financing for a 94-mile canal linking the Mekong to the Gulf of Thailand

Cambodia and China have signed a $1.2 billion deal to finance an ambitious canal project that aims to boost trade efficiency by linking a branch of the Mekong River near Phnom Penh to a port on the Gulf of Thailand.

US Forest Service issues notice on contested land transfer for a major copper mine in Arizona

The U.S. Forest Service is providing notice that it plans to reissue a final environmental review and draft decision on a contested transfer of land in Arizona that would clear the way for a massive copper mining project.

In East Palestine derailment trial, railroad and chemical maker agree on who pays residents

Norfolk Southern reached an agreement with one of the two companies it has been trying to force to help pay for the $600 million class-action settlement it agreed to over its disastrous 2023 train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and the toxic chemicals that were released and burned.

2 wildfires spreading in rugged terrain in western North Carolina

Federal officials say two wildfires spreading in western North Carolina have burned more than 2 square miles of wooded area.

A look at why an island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico and what caused it

An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico this week, leaving 1.4 million customers without power and more than 400,000 without water.

A Russian bucket brigade helps toads and frogs cross the road to get to a spawning site

It happens every spring along a section of road north of Russia’s second-largest city of St. Petersburg: Volunteers, some in yellow vests, patrol near the Sestroretsk Bog natural reserve, and become crossing guards for thousands of toads and frogs.

North Carolina budget plan advances as Senate Republicans double down on tax cuts

North Carolina Senate Republicans have advanced a two-year budget for the ninth-largest state. The proposal that received initial Senate approval on Wednesday spends less than what the new Democratic governor requested and doubles down on already enacted income tax cuts.