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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Jacinda Ardern, who stepped down as New Zealand's prime minister in January , will begin an unpaid role this month combating online extremism.

KOCHI, India (AP) — Anthony Kuttappassera's family has lived in the same house at the edge of the Arabian Sea for more than a century. He grew up drinking water from the pond and the well outside his home.

GRAND FORKS, B.C. — A fungus that has led to some Canadian bat populations becoming endangered has been found in British Columbia.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — This year's epic snowpack in California's Sierra Nevada could top records, state officials said Monday, and significant flooding is expected when it melts and flows down from the mountains.

OTTAWA — Seven months after Canada and Germany agreed to build a new hydrogen supply chain across the Atlantic Ocean, the 2025 target date for the first shipments is on track, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says.

VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government's outdated practice of granting mineral claims without Indigenous consent is a "continuation of the Crown's efforts the dismantle Gitxaala's society," a lawyer for the First Nation told a court.

Offshore oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico are releasing far more climate-changing methane than official estimates show, according to a new study published Monday.

MADAWASKA, Maine (AP) — Volunteers cut a big ol' circle in a frozen lake and set it in motion, claiming a world record in a category that few people know exists: The biggest ice carousel.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Ian briefly reached maximum Category 5 status before weakening to a Category 4 storm as it blasted ashore last September in southwest Florida, eventually causing over $112 billion in damage in the U.S.