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Left to right: Danielle Butcher Franz, Karly Matthews, Stephen Perkins and Benji Backer talking about plans for the second day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Grace Widyatmadja/NPR hide caption

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Ice melting from Greenland and the polar regions is causing sea levels to rise, shifting mass around the planet in a way that's starting to slow its spin, scientists are finding. NASA hide caption

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Days are getting slightly longer — and it’s due to climate change

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A structure burns during the Oak Fire in Mariposa County in 2022. David Odisho/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption

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Home insurance rates are rising due to climate change. What could break that cycle?

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A car is crushed by a fallen building that hosted the Gansevoort mural that was struck by a tornado, in Rome, N.Y., on Tuesday. Much of the U.S. and Canada is cleaning up or still dealing with a new wave of severe storms that have caused deaths and damage this week from the Plains to New England. John Clifford/The Daily Sentinel/AP hide caption

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Tourists shelter from the sun in front of the Sforzesco Castle in Milan, Italy, on Tuesday. Weather alerts, forest fires, melting pavement in cities: A sizzling heat wave has sent temperatures in parts of central and southern Europe soaring toward 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) in some places. Luca Bruno/AP hide caption

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Athletes dive into the Seine River from the Alexander III bridge on the start of the first leg of the women's triathlon test event for the 2024 Paris Olympics in Paris in August 2023. Michel Euler/AP hide caption

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Peter Nyongesa walks through the mangroves to monitor his beehives in the Bangladesh slums in Mombasa, Kenya, on May 30, 2024. The 69-year-old Nyongesa recalled how he would plead unsuccessfully with loggers to spare the mangroves or cut only the mature ones while leaving the younger ones intact. So he has turned to deterring the loggers with bees, hidden in the mangroves and ready to sting. Gideon Maundu/AP hide caption

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Environmental activists rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 after it ruled against the Obama administration's plan to cut climate-warming emissions at the nation's power plants. The Supreme Court has since further limited the power of federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption

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Google Vice President Majd Bakar speaks on-stage during an annual conference in San Francisco with the back drop of a massive data center. Josh Edelson/Getty Images hide caption

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Artificial intelligence's thirst for electricity

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Some of the reusable items to avoid single use plastics. Zayrha Rodriguez/NPR hide caption

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WEEK OF NO PLASTIC 1

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Pump jacks extract oil from beneath the ground in North Dakota on May 19, 2021. The federal government announced a $241.5 million settlement with Marathon Oil on Thursday for alleged air quality violations at the company's oil and gas operations in the Forth Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. Matt Brown/AP hide caption

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A macaque sits on a rock at Cayo Santiago as a rainbow stretches across the sky in February 2022. Lauren Brent hide caption

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Hurricane Maria and macaques

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A home is surrounded by floodwater in Texas. Beryl hit the state as a Category-1 hurricane. The remnants of the storm are expected to move far from the ocean toward the Midwest, where they also pose risks of dangerous flooding. Brandon Bell/Getty Images hide caption

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Sunland Park Fire Department firefighters and police officers roll a migrant woman, who was suffering from heat-related illness, on a gurney to be loaded into an ambulance in a residential area in Sunland Park, N.M., on Friday, June 28, 2024. Paul Ratje for NPR hide caption

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U.S. Border officials attribute increased migrant deaths to extreme heat

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A worker adjusts his helmet on a construction site under the sun as southern California faces a heat wave, in Los Angeles, on Wednesday. Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Marvin Cox, community outreach director with the Metropolitan Action Commission on June 25, in Nashville. As temperatures reached into the upper 90s, the Metro Action Commission was offering free window AC units to seniors, families with young children and people with medical conditions. Mark Humphrey/AP hide caption

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Public housing buildings can now pay for residents' ACs, providing relief to many

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