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BEIJING — The death toll in recent flooding in China's capital rose to 33, including five rescuers, and another 18 people remain missing, officials said Wednesday, as much of the country's north remains threatened by unusually heavy rainfall. Days of…
BELEM, Brazil — Eight Amazon nations called on industrialized countries to do more to help preserve the world's largest rainforest as they met at a major summit in Brazil to chart a common course on how to combat climate change.…
SEOUL, South Korea — Dozens of flights and ferry services were grounded in South Korea on Wednesday ahead of a tropical storm that has dumped rain on Japan’s southwestern islands for more than a week. Khanun’s heavy rains and winds…
Scientists are wondering if global warming and El Nino have an accomplice in fueling this summer’s record-shattering heat. The European climate agency Copernicus reported that July was one-third of a degree Celsius (six-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit) hotter than the…
Delivering a win for abortion rights advocates, Ohio’s Issue 1 will fail, the Associated Press projects. The Republican-backed ballot initiative would have increased the threshold to amend the state's constitution, making it more difficult for a measure that would enshrine…
Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Philadelphia Tuesday to highlight the administration's new rule to raise wage standards for construction workers performing federally funded jobs as part of the broader "Bidenomics" push. Speaking at the Finishing Trades Institute, a union…
