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Average temperatures across Earth in 2023 have been dangerously close to the 1.5 degree Celsius warming threshold scientists have long warned would bring significant challenges to people worldwide.
The Greenland ice sheet is the second-largest contributor to sea level rise, and as temperatures rise, glaciers in the northern parts of the region are becoming "extremely vulnerable."
"They cut off our fuel, water and electricity," said Hassan Zain al-Din, "but not our belonging."
Hurricane Otis "was the strongest hurricane in the East Pacific to make landfall in the satellite era," when it hit Acapulco, Mexico, last week, NOAA said.
After the "one in a million" encounter, video shows the 55-year-old surfer back on his board, saying, "I just got hit by a whale."
"He picked up a butcher knife and went after the gunman to try and stop from killing other people," Joseph Walker's father said, "and that's when he shot my son to death."
"It was just a fun night playing cornhole," the co-owner of the bar told a local news outlet. "...I still feel like this whole thing is a nightmare."
Nearly two dozen of the dolphins that were found dead are an endangered species known as "the guardians of rivers."
Officials say the 10-month-old twins had been hidden and alone for 14 hours before emergency services arrived at the scene of the Kfar Aza kibbutz massacre.
Israeli woman Mor Bayder said she opened Facebook after leaving a bomb shelter to "the greatest imaginable disaster ... My grandmother on the ground, in her own home, murdered, in a video."
"The gutsy girl grounded the guy with a gut," Fat Bear Week officials said of their newly-crowned "bear with the biggest beardonkadonk."
The Potomac Electric Power Company is accused of spilling or releasing petroleum and nationally-banned industrial products into the soil and groundwater for nearly a century.
While Jawlene may not have flaming locks of auburn hair or eyes of emerald green, there is one thing she has in common Dolly Parton's "Jolene" – just about anyone would beg her not to take their man.
Without funding for the National Park Service, the beloved celebration of Alaska's "burly" brown bears may not be able to take place as planned.
The 400-pound stingray was nearly the length of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.