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Mom distributes air quality monitors after 9-year-old's asthma death during wildfires

Mom distributes air quality monitors after 9-year-old's asthma death during wildfires

Nine-year-old Carter Vigh was having a great day last July 11, visiting a waterpark, enjoying a picnic lunch and playing soccer with other kids at a day camp run by his mother, Amber Vigh.
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The federal government plans to restore grizzly bears to the North Cascades region of Washington

The federal government plans to restore grizzly bears to the North Cascades region of Washington

SEATTLE (AP) — The federal government plans to restore grizzly bears to an area of northwest and north-central Washington, where they were largely wiped out. Plans announced this week by the National Park Service and U.S.
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Study says it's likely a warmer world made deadly Dubai downpours heavier

Study says it's likely a warmer world made deadly Dubai downpours heavier

Circumstantial evidence points to climate change as worsening the deadly deluge that just flooded Dubai and other parts of the Persian Gulf, but scientists didn't discover the definitive fingerprints of greenhouse gas-triggered warming they have seen
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Native American tribes want US appeals court to weigh in on $10B SunZia energy transmission project

Native American tribes and environmentalists want a U.S.
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Scottish leader faces battle for survival after ending power-sharing deal over climate change clash

Scottish leader faces battle for survival after ending power-sharing deal over climate change clash

LONDON (AP) — Scotland's leader is facing a fight for his political survival after he ended a three-year power-sharing agreement with the Scottish Green Party following a clash over climate change policies.
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Mining giant BHP Billiton makes $39 billion bid for Anglo American to expand copper operations

Mining giant BHP Billiton makes $39 billion bid for Anglo American to expand copper operations

LONDON (AP) — Shares in U.K.
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Climate change is bringing malaria to new areas. In Africa, it never left

Climate change is bringing malaria to new areas. In Africa, it never left

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — When a small number of cases of locally transmitted malaria were found in the United States last year, it was a reminder that climate change is reviving or migrating the threat of some diseases.
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Flooding in Tanzania has killed 155 people as heavy rains continue in Eastern Africa

Flooding in Tanzania has killed 155 people as heavy rains continue in Eastern Africa

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Flooding in Tanzania caused by weeks of heavy rain has killed 155 people and affected more than 200,000 others, the prime minister said Thursday.
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A Chinese ship remains the focus of the investigation into Baltic Sea gas pipeline damaged last year

A Chinese ship remains the focus of the investigation into Baltic Sea gas pipeline damaged last year

HELSINKI (AP) — A Chinese container ship remains the focus of an investigation into what caused the damage last year to a Baltic Sea gas pipeline between NATO members Finland and Estonia, Finnish authorities said Thursday.
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Chinese automakers redefine the car as a living space at Beijing Auto Show

Chinese automakers redefine the car as a living space at Beijing Auto Show

BEIJING (AP) — How about turning a car's front bucket seats 180 degrees so they face the rear seats and extending out a table so the occupants can play cards or eat a meal? Or a 43-inch (109 centimeter) screen for the passengers in the back seat? The
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