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BOSTON (AP) — When it comes to hurricanes, New England can't compete with Florida or the Caribbean.

When a small city abruptly parked all its buses to launch a publicly subsidized van service offering $1.50 trips anywhere in town, only one of its bus drivers — a big-city transplant — went along for the ride.

BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Fishermen removed lobster traps from the water and residents hauled hundreds of boats ashore — leaving some harbors looking like ghost towns — while utility workers from as far away as Tennessee began taking up positions Frid

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil is reinstating stronger greenhouse gas commitments it made in 2015 as part of the Paris Agreement that were weakened under former President Jair Bolsonaro.

BOSTON (AP) — When it comes to hurricanes, New England can't compete with Florida or the Caribbean.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.

From Europe to Africa to southeast Asia, tens of thousands of climate activists launched protests Friday to call for an end to the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels as the globe suffers dramatic weather extremes and record-breaking heat , with p

ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic Sen.

CALGARY — The fossil fuel industry is increasingly under the microscope for its contribution to climate change, but the president of British oil giant Shell's Canadian subsidiary says oil and gas companies can't be held solely responsible for the pac

DERNA, Libya (AP) — Libyan authorities limited access to the flooded city of Derna on Friday to make it easier for searchers to dig through the mud and hollowed-out buildings for the more than 10,000 people still missing and presumed dead following a