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Fired employees fear beloved Yosemite National Park will lose its luster

Fired employees fear beloved Yosemite National Park will lose its luster

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif.
Parents and kids navigate talks of loss and tragedy as they return home after LA area fires

Parents and kids navigate talks of loss and tragedy as they return home after LA area fires

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ceiba Phillips, 11, couldn't believe what he saw when he returned to his Southern California neighborhood a month after a wildfire reduced it to rubble. The ruins of his best friend’s house and his beloved school.
LA mayor dismisses fire chief over response to most destructive wildfire in city history last month

LA mayor dismisses fire chief over response to most destructive wildfire in city history last month

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Six weeks after the start of the most destructive wildfire in city history, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ousted the fire chief Friday amid a public rift over preparations for a potential blaze and finger-pointing between the chief
South Sudan closes schools after students collapse due to extreme heat

South Sudan closes schools after students collapse due to extreme heat

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan closed all schools Thursday for two weeks due to an extreme heat wave that has caused some students to collapse.
National Park Service restores some jobs of fired employees, pledges to hire 7,700 seasonal workers

National Park Service restores some jobs of fired employees, pledges to hire 7,700 seasonal workers

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is restoring jobs for dozens of National Park Service employees fired amid government-wide reductions and hiring nearly 3,000 additional seasonal workers, following an uproar over an aggressive plan to downs
How Trump's mass layoffs raise the risk of wildfires in the US West, according to fired workers

How Trump's mass layoffs raise the risk of wildfires in the US West, according to fired workers

SEATTLE (AP) — The termination letters that ended the careers of thousands of U.S.
An encroaching desert threatens to swallow Mauritania’s homes and history

An encroaching desert threatens to swallow Mauritania’s homes and history

CHINGUETTI, Mauritania (AP) — For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a dozen libraries containing thousands of manuscripts. But it now stands on the brink of oblivion.
Famed for Himalayan peaks and pristine lakes, Kashmir faces a water crisis amid dry weather

Famed for Himalayan peaks and pristine lakes, Kashmir faces a water crisis amid dry weather

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — For days, people in the Himalayan region of Kashmir watched in agony as a famed ancient spring ran dry amid extreme dry weather conditions. It was the first time in living memory that the spring water had vanished.
Poilievre's proposed incentives for First Nations water, resource projects draw fire

Poilievre's proposed incentives for First Nations water, resource projects draw fire

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he would incentivize First Nations to support natural-resource projects through industry taxes and revisiting how much sway Indigenous Peoples and environmental considerations have over approving pro
Droughts, floods and economic uncertainty: Portraits of the Wayuu people in northern Colombia

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

RIOHACHA, Colombia (AP) — Climate change is rapidly altering the way of life of the Indigenous Wayuu people, a semi-nomadic Indigenous group living in the arid La Guajira region, which spans northern Colombia and Venezuela.
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