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Gullah Geechee community elder Sandra Boyd, also known as “Mama Sasa,” throws a flower into the Atlantic Ocean during a dawn ceremony she held to honor the African ancestors who made the Middle Passage, either perishing en route or surviving to build new lives under the shackles of slavery, in Hunting Island State Park, on Hunting Island, S.C., Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. The dawn event kicked off a week-long community effort organized by Boyd, to clean up and beautify cemeteries on St. Helena Island, some of which are so overgrown and hidden on old plantation lands that locating them has proved a challenge. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) SCRB312 SCRB312

November 11, 2021 at 11:26 pm

Communities consider ‘managed retreat’ from climate change VIEW

In some parts of the U.S., the risks from climate change have intensified enough to raise a startling question: Should some populated places simply be...

FILE – A migrant daily wage worker bathes at a public well pump on a hot morning in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, May 17, 2016. Scorching summer temperatures, hovering well over 40 degrees Celcius, (104 Fahrenheit) are making life extremely tough for millions of poor across north India. Without access to air conditioning and sometimes even an electric fan, they struggle to cope with the heat in their inadequate homes. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File) NY581 NY581

November 11, 2021 at 6:02 am

AP analysis: Exposure to extreme heat has tripled since 1983 VIEW

An Associated Press analysis of temperature and population data shows that exposure to extreme heat has tripled and now affects about a quarter of the...

October 21, 2021 at 8:06 am

Billions in environmental justice funds hang in the balance

Tens of billions of dollars for U.S. environmental justice initiatives originally proposed by Democratic leaders in a $3.5 trillion domestic spending package now hang in...

September 22, 2021 at 6:02 am

UN health agency sets higher, tougher bar for air quality VIEW

The World Health Organization is setting a higher bar for policymakers and the public in its first update to its air quality guidelines in 15...

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September 15, 2021 at 2:16 pm

Los Angeles County votes to phase out oil and gas drilling

Los Angeles County’s board of supervisors voted unanimously on Wednesday to phase out oil and gas drilling and ban new drill sites in the unincorporated...

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September 8, 2021 at 8:10 am

Study calls for strict limits on oil, coal to curb warming

Climate scientists from University College London say strict limits on fossil fuels taken from the ground are needed to meet goals of the Paris Climate...

June 2, 2021 at 1:48 pm

Hundreds of lakes in U.S., Europe are losing oxygen

Oxygen levels have dropped in hundreds of lakes in the United States and Europe over the last four decades, a new study found. And the...

FILE – In this Wednesday, July 4, 2012 file photo, Dave Bailey, right, gulps water from a bottle while hanging inside of a tent on the sidewalk with his sons Daquan Bailey, 14, left, and Davandre Bailey, 17, while beating the heat on Fourth of July in Paterson, N.J. According to a study published Tuesday, May 25, 2021 inÂ Nature Communications, during the summer of 2017 in nearly all large urban areas, people of color are exposed to more extreme urban heat than white people. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File) NY984 NY984

May 25, 2021 at 8:00 am

People of color more exposed to heat islands, study finds

"Heat islands" are parts of cities with higher average temperatures. The study based on 2017 data found that, in nearly all large urban areas, the...

April 29, 2021 at 9:15 am

People of color more exposed than whites to air pollution

Across America, people of color are exposed to more air pollution than whites from industry, vehicles, construction and many other sources, a new study has...

April 13, 2021 at 6:41 am

EXPLAINER: The law and science behind the CDC’s eviction ban

When the U.S. government enacted a ban on evictions, it did so through an unlikely agency: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC...