Extreme heat can be especially dangerous for older adults, children, people with disabilities and those who work outside. Ralph Freso/Getty Images hide caption
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Devils Hole pupfish gather on the precious rocky shelf that supports their entire fragile existence in the wild. Olin Feuerbacher/NPS hide caption
In the car racing show Extreme E, electric SUVs try to outpace each other in remote parts of the world hit hard by climate change. Above, the Extreme E drivers pose for a photo on the Russell Glacier in Greenland. Zak Mauger/Extreme E hide caption
Climate change is our reality — so why wouldn't it appear on reality TV?
Gnarled, tall and all-seeing. Sean Gallup/Getty Images, hide caption
A security guard wipes sweat from his brow in Beijing, on July 3, 2023. Record-breaking heat is unfolding around the world because of human-caused climate change and the cyclic climate pattern El Niño. Andy Wong/AP hide caption
Even though the U.S. said it eliminated malaria in 1951, efforts have continued to keep the disease at bay. Above: A Stearman biplane sprays insecticide during malaria control operations in Savannah, Georgia in 1973. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images hide caption
A squirrel splooting in the shade. New York City Department of Parks and Recreation hide caption
The heat is making squirrels 'sploot' — a goofy act that signals something serious
Activists protested what would be the country's largest lithium mine outside federal court in Pasadena, Calif., on Tuesday. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption
A garden center sign on Congress Avenue on Tuesday in Austin, Texas Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Haze from Canadian wildfires blankets the Chicago skyline as seen from the city's South Loop neighborhood on Wednesday. Kathleen Foody/AP hide caption
Smoke and haze from the Canadian wildfires hang over Pittsburgh on June 28. Oliver Morrison/90.5 WESA hide caption
Outdoor workers are vulnerable to prolonged heat waves like the one hitting Texas, which climate scientists warn are becoming more common. David J. Phillip/AP hide caption
This kelp forest in the Galapagos is made up of an unknown kelp species and grows at a depth of 50 to 60 meters. Salomé Buglass hide caption
Why finding kelp in the Galapagos is like finding a polar bear in the Bahamas
Chris Gloninger, pictured in June 2022. Next month he makes a career pivot from TV meteorologist to climate consultant. Chris Gloninger hide caption
A meteorologist got threats for his climate coverage. His new job is about solutions
Nucor makes steel sheets and beams at its plant in Berkeley County, S.C. Michael Copley/NPR hide caption
Deckhand Justin Middleton pulls in a crab trap off San Francisco, where new pop-up fishing gear is being piloted. Brand Little hide caption
This fishing gear can help save whales. What will it take for fishermen to use it?
Francisca Sosa sits by her father, one of the many Peruvians who've contracted dengue fever in this unprecedented outbreak. Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Peru is reeling from record case counts of dengue fever. What's driving the outbreak?
Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly, left, shows a visitor damage from last year's flooding NPS / Jacob W. Frank/National Park Service hide caption
A year after Yellowstone floods, fishing guides have to learn 'a whole new river'
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Eva Lighthiser, 17, is sworn in to take the stand last week during the first day of a youth-led legal challenge of Montana's climate policies. Ellis Juhlin/Montana Public Radio hide caption
David Jones dusts his house almost daily because the air in his neighborhood is so polluted. "You wake up in the morning and your throat hurts," he says. He is one of millions of people in the United States who live with dangerous air pollution, including gasses and particulates so small that they can worm their way deep into one's lungs and even cross into the brain. Ryan Kellman/NPR hide caption
A new satellite could help clean up the air in America's most polluted neighborhoods
Matthias Huss, a glaciologist and head of the Swiss measurement network 'Glamos', for ETH (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) walks up to the Rhone Glacier near Goms, Switzerland, Friday, June 16, 2023. Matthias Schrader/AP hide caption
Across the U.S., some opposition to larger solar projects comes from people who deny climate science. But some people opposing solar projects believe in climate change and are opposing solar on environmental and conservation grounds. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Flames burn on a natural gas-burning stove in Chicago on Jan. 12. New research from Stanford University show gas stoves emit benzene, which is linked to cancer. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption