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A water truck worker fills a container outside the homes of residents who use it for drinking, cooking and cleaning, in the Pamplona Alta area in Lima, Peru, Friday, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Drought, heat and mismanagement make getting fresh water an increasingly tough task

As the world warms from human-caused climate change, fresh water for drinking, cooking and cleaning is becoming harder to get for many people.

FILE - A couple takes a selfie with cherry blossoms at Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, March 29, 2023. The United States can expect a nice spring break from past too rainy or too dry extremes, federal meteorologists predicted Thursday, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

The US may catch a spring break on weather. Forecasters see minimal flooding and drought for spring

Graves are visible near the dried-up Aral Sea outside Aralsk, Kazakhstan, Monday, July 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

On the Aral Sea, graves rise above the dust. They’re reminders of the life its waters once sustained

Fernando Osorio Loya, center, a contract worker from Veracruz, Mexico, stirs soil for a seeding machine as Jamie Graham, left, and Fredy Osorio, right, also a contract worker from Veracruz, Mexico, unload trays of seeded tobacco, Tuesday, March 12, 2024, at a farm in Crofton, Ky. The latest U.S. agricultural census data shows an increase in the proportion of farms utilizing contract labor compared to those hiring labor overall. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

US farms are increasingly reliant on contract workers who are acutely exposed to climate extremes

FILE - Shoppers buy food in a supermarket in London, on Aug. 17, 2022. Food prices and overall inflation will rise as temperatures climb with climate change, a new study by an environmental scientist and the European Central Bank found. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Higher temperatures mean higher food and other prices. A new study links climate shocks to inflation

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Nguyen Thi Thuy, a vendor who sells steamed buns on a floating market, paddles her boat in Can Tho, Vietnam, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. On good days she makes about $4 — hardly enough to put food on the table. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, the lure of moving to the city grows even stronger amid climate shocks

Lance Martin holds a jug of maple syrup as light shines through it, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, in Rhinelander, Wis. In many parts of Wisconsin and the Midwest this year, the warmest winter on record drove farmers and hobbyists alike to start collecting tree sap for maple syrup a month or more earlier than they normally would. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Maple syrup season came weeks early in the Midwest. Producers are doing their best to adapt

Lisa McGuire stands near her former walkway on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, as she describes a fire that engulfed her home, killing her two dogs, in a Prichard, Ala., neighborhood with a history of severe water loss. When a neighbor called her about the fire, she said she rushed home to find firefighters with an empty hose attached to a hydrant. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Trillions of gallons leak from aging drinking water systems, further stressing shrinking US cities

Annie Kopacitino holds her daughter, who she says has been affected by the pollution caused by oil drilling, in her village of Tshiende, Moanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023. The country is looking to expand the oil drilling. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

As Congo seeks to expand drilling, some communities worry pollution will worsen

Katrina Cornish, a professor at Ohio State University who studies rubber alternatives, models a medical glove made from latex produced from the desert shrub guayule, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, in Wooster, Ohio. Cornish spends her days raising dandelions and desert shrubs. She harvests the stretchy rubber substances they produce and uses special machines to dip them into condoms, medical gloves and parts for trachea tubes. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Dandelions and shrubs to replace rubber, new grains and more: Are alternative crops realistic?

Gayna Salinas looks out over the Green River, a tributary of the Colorado River, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, in Green River, Utah. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)

In rural Utah, concern over efforts to use Colorado River water to extract lithium

Surfing in Tahiti: 2024 Paris Olympics

Kids surf small waves along the beach after school in Teahupo'o, Tahiti, French Polynesia, Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Hundreds are set to descend on Tahiti for Olympic surfing. Can locals protect their way of life?

Naiki Vaast spearfishes along the coral reef in Vairao, Tahiti, French Polynesia, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

In Teahupo’o, Tahiti, coastal village life thrives among powerful waves

Fossil fuel influence at UN climate talks

Capuava oil refinery owned by Petrobras sits in Maui, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. Petrobras specializes in deep water exploration, drilling and extraction. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Oil companies attending climate talks have minimal green energy transition plans, AP analysis finds

Happy Cardinal, right, looks at what remains of his cabin, destroyed by wildfires, near Fort Chipewyan, Canada, on Sunday, Sep. 3, 2023. Wildfires are bringing fresh scrutiny to Canada's fossil fuel dominance, its environmentally friendly image and the viability of becoming carbon neutral by 2050. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Canada says it can fight climate change and be major oil nation. Massive fires may force a reckoning

FILE - The coal-fired power plant Uniper Scholven and a nearby BP refinery shine in the evening behind illuminated appartments in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. Environmental activists say the lobbying of fossil fuel interests are the reason why climate talks have yet to produce an agreement to phase out coal, oil and natural gas, as scientists have repeatedly said must happen to stave off the worst impacts of climate change, like extreme weather events. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Fossil fuel interests have large, yet often murky, presence at climate talks, AP analysis finds

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Yaad Ali, left, and his son Musikur Alam, row a boat to collect drinking water in the floodwaters in Sandahkhaiti, a floating island village in the Brahmaputra River in Morigaon district, Assam, India, Aug. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

AP photos reveal intensity, insecurity and inequality in 2023 as world altered by climate change

Ali Shadilov, left, and Anvar Saimbetov pose in front of an old boat in the area where the Aral Sea once was in Muynak, Uzbekistan, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. The Associated Press interviewed Shadilov and others in Muynak, Uzbekistan – all residents in their 60s and 70s who’ve long been tied to the sea, or what remains of it. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

These men once relied on the Aral Sea. Today, the dry land is a reminder of lost livelihoods

Juma Indigenous sisters Mandei Juma, from left, Mayta Juma and Borea Juma pose for a picture at their community, near Canutama, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sunday, July 9, 2023. The Juma seemed destined to disappear following the death of their father, the last remaining elderly man, but under his three daughters’ leadership, they changed the patriarchal tradition and now fight to preserve their territory and culture. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Indigenous women bring a tiny tribe back from the brink of extinction in the Amazon

Scientific diver Morgan Murphy-Cannella holds bull kelp with a dark patch of reproductive spores as she surveys a reforestation project, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, near Caspar, Calif. Kelp forests play an integral role in the health of the world’s oceans, one of the issues being discussed at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

From urchin crushing to lab-grown kelp, efforts to save California’s kelp forests show promise

Environmental activist members of the Situ Gede Cleanliness Warrior pick up trash while paddling kayaks at Setu Gede lake in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Young people have been at the forefront of environmental and climate change movements in recent years: initiatives like school strikes for climate action, protests at United Nations climate talks and around the world, and local clean ups have often been youth-led. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Indonesia’s youth clean up trash from waterways, but more permanent solutions are still elusive

Workers carry a solar panel for installation at the under-construction Adani Green Energy Limited's Renewable Energy Park in the salt desert of Karim Shahi village, near Khavda, Bhuj district near the India-Pakistan border in the western state of Gujarat, India, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. India is developing a 30 gigawatt hybrid — wind and solar — renewable energy project on one of the largest salt deserts in the world. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

In the salt deserts bordering Pakistan, India builds its largest renewable energy project

A person walks past signs that read "stop war" and "go green" at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Dec. 8, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

At UN climate talks in Dubai, moments between the meetings

Joyce Ngui heads to fetch groundwater in Athi River, Machakos county, Kenya, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. “Sometimes, we get to the water vending stations and find that the queue is long and then the water finishes and you have to wait,” Ngui said. “Most of the times you don’t have money to buy even the salty water sold around. So we have no choice but to use the swamp water," she said. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

In some neighborhoods in drought-prone Kenya, clean water is scarce. Filters are one solution

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How did humans get to the brink of crashing climate?

Bales of hay are stored under shelters at Al Dahra Farms, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, in the McMullen Valley in Wenden, Ariz. Worries about future water supplies from ancient aquifers are bubbling up in western rural Arizona. Some neighbors complain that their backyard wells have dried up since the Emirati agribusiness began farming alfalfa nearby. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Tensions are bubbling up at thirsty Arizona alfalfa farms as foreign firms exploit unregulated water

A rare Czech almond grove blooms early after an unusually warm winter

Masses of white and pink blossoms in a rare almond grove in the Czech Republic appeared earlier than usual after one of the hottest winters on record.

Bird flu is decimating seal colonies. Scientists don’t know how to stop it

Avian influenza is killing tens of thousands of seals and sea lions in different corners of the world, disrupting ecosystems and flummoxing scientists who don’t see a clear way to slow the devastating virus.

Over 100 iconic cherry trees in Washington will be cut down. So long, Stumpy

The sun is setting on Stumpy, the gnarled old cherry tree that has become a social media phenom. This year’s cherry blossom festivities in Washington will be the last for Stumpy and more than 100 other cherry trees that will be cut down as part of a multiyear restoration of their Tidal Basin home.

State Farm discontinuing 72,000 home policies in California in latest blow to state insurance market

Insurance giant State Farm says it will discontinue coverage for 72,000 houses and apartments in California starting this summer.

Human composting as alternative to burial and cremation gets final approval by Delaware lawmakers

The Delaware Senate has given final approval to a bill allowing the composting of human bodies as an alternative to burial or cremation.

Panel urged to move lawsuit to state court that seeks shutdown of part of aging pipeline in Michigan

Michigan attorneys have pressed a federal appellate panel in Cincinnati to move their lawsuit seeking to shut down a portion of an aging petroleum pipeline beneath the Straits of Mackinac from federal to state court.

Spring snowfall in parts of northern US follows mild winter of canceled ski trips and festivals

After a season with very little snow, a blast of snowy weather could dump a foot or more in some northern states, just as spring officially arrives.

Energy agency announces $475M in funding for clean energy projects on mine land sites

The Biden administration has announced up to $475 million in federal funding for clean energy projects on current or former mine land sites. The U.S.

Greek authorities overhaul wildfire response plans ahead of summer fire season

Greek authorities have presented new plans for tackling wildfires which often ravage the country during its hot, dry summers, including changes in the deployment of firefighting aircraft and increased staffing in specialized units.

EU legal adviser backs cancellation of EU-Morocco fishing agreement over disputed Western Sahara

A legal adviser to the European Union’s top court has recommended that it annul Europe’s fishing agreement with Morocco, which would have allowed European boats to fish for valuable catch off the coast of the disputed Western Sahara.

Security and climate change drive a return to nuclear energy as over 30 nations sign summit pledge

Over 30 nations from around the world have pledged to boost nuclear energy to help achieve a climate-neutral globe while providing countries an added sense of security independence.

Taps have run dry across South Africa’s largest city in an unprecedented water crisis

Thousands of South Africans are lining up for water as the country’s largest city, Johannesburg, confronts an unprecedented collapse of its water system affecting millions of people.

Chevron agrees to pay more than $13 million in fines for California oil spills

Chevron has agreed to pay more than $13 million in fines for dozens of past oil spills in California.

New York lawmakers expand fracking ban to include liquid carbon dioxide

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York lawmakers passed a bill Wednesday that would expand the state’s existing fracking ban by blocking natural gas drilling companies from using an extraction method that involves injecting huge amounts of liquid carbon dioxide into the ground.

SEC climate rule prompts a rush to sue. Experts say companies are likely to prepare to comply anyway

An expected long legal battle has begun over a new rule that requires companies to disclose some emissions and climate-related information.

Maine panel votes against adopting stricter electric vehicle standards

Maine environmental regulators decided Wednesday the state will not join a growing number of states adopting new standards designed to grow the use of electric vehicles.

EPA issues new auto rules aimed at cutting carbon emissions, boosting electric vehicles and hybrids

The Biden administration has announced new automobile emissions standards that officials call the most ambitious plan ever to cut planet-warming emissions from passenger vehicles.

Highlights from the AP’s reporting on the shrimp industry in India

India is the top supplier of shrimp to the U.S., with Indian shrimp stocked in freezers at most of the nation’s biggest grocery store and restaurant chains.

AP finds grueling conditions in Indian shrimp industry that report calls ‘dangerous and abusive’

India is the top supplier of shrimp to the U.S., with Indian shrimp stocked in freezers at most of the nation’s biggest grocery store and restaurant chains.

Governor signs bills creating electric vehicle charging station network across Wisconsin

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has signed bipartisan bills designed to create a statewide electric vehicles charging network.