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- A window frames a portion of the shore littered with debris left from flooding driven by a Gulf of Mexico sea-level rise, in the coastal community of El Bosque, in the state of Tabasco, Mexico, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
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The last residents of a coastal Mexican town destroyed by climate change
By DANIEL SHAILER - Associated Press
Wed,12/13/23-9:20AM , 202 Reads
EL BOSQUE, Mexico (AP) — People moved to El Bosque in the 1980s to fish. Setting out into the Gulf of Mexico in threes and fours, fishermen returned with buckets of tarpon and long, streaked snook. There was more than enough to feed them, and build a community — three schools, a small church and a basketball court on the sand.
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- Dan Durica gestures during an interview at the Sweetwater Community Farm Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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Drought vs deluge: Florida's unusual rainfall totals either too little or too much on each coast
By CURT ANDERSON - Associated Press
Thu,12/07/23-11:00PM , 493 Reads
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — In Florida, this year has been a tale of two states as far as rainfall totals, with the southeast coast deluged by sometimes-record rainfall and much of the Gulf of Mexico coast facing a drought.
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- Hinds County, Miss., Emergency Management Operations Deputy Director Tracy Funches, right, and Operations Coordinator Luke Chennault, left, wade through floodwaters in northeast Jackson, Miss., Aug. 29, 2022, as they check water levels. Flooding affected a number of neighborhoods that are near the Pearl River. Environmental groups in Mississippi presented findings Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers showing a long-debated flood control project along the Pearl River would be “destructive,” the groups said, and alternative projects should be considered instead. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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Environmentalists say Pearl River flood control plan would be destructive. Alternative plans exist
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Wed,12/06/23-6:37PM , 952 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Environmental groups in Mississippi presented findings Wednesday from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers showing a long-debated flood control project along the Pearl River would be “destructive,” and the groups said alternative projects should be considered instead.
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- Italy Premier Giorgia Meloni, left, India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center, and COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber speak at a group photo at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Top world leaders talk of climate crisis at UN summit. They say they must act on fossil fuels, war
By SETH BORENSTEIN AND JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press
Thu,11/30/23-11:53PM , 406 Reads
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dozens of world leaders said they know the planet's dangerously overheating and they are trying to keep it from getting worse. The next step is to turn their soaring rhetoric voiced at the beginning of the United Nations climate conference into action.
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