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The "gruesome discovery" of the remains of a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale is another blow to the species, a global environmental advocacy group says.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Kyle Larson eyeballed his assigned teammates and plotted a strategy to try to score his first win of Indianapolis 500 week.

A global environmental advocacy group says the remains of a critically endangered North Atlantic whale were found off the southwestern shore of Nova Scotia.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s drought, heatwave and water shortages have gotten so bad that even police blocked traffic in protest Wednesday.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s drought, heatwave and water shortages have gotten so bad that even police blocked traffic in protest Wednesday.

SAO PAULO (AP) — The first death from waterborne bacterial disease was reported in southern Brazil, where floodwaters were slowly receding, and health authorities warned additional fatalities were likely.

Climate change increasingly threatens some of the nation's most sensitive sites, including research laboratories, military facilities and power plants with radioactive material.

CALGARY — Imperial Oil Ltd. says it has started production at its new Grand Rapids oilsands project located at its Cold Lake operating site. The Calgary-based company, which is majority owned by U.S.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two shipping companies agreed to pay $2 million in penalties after pleading guilty to federal charges related to the dumping of oil in the Atlantic Ocean by a ship bound for New Orleans last year.

At 16, Katya Kondragunta has already lived through two disasters amped by climate change. First came wildfires in California in 2020 . Ash and smoke forced her family to stay inside their home in the Bay Area city of Fremont, for weeks.