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FILE - In this Aug. 4, 1977, photo provided by NASA, the "Sounds of Earth" record is mounted on the Voyager 2 spacecraft in the Safe-1 Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., prior to encapsulation in the protective shroud. NASA is listening for any peep from Voyager 2 after losing contact with the spacecraft billions of miles away. (AP Photo/NASA, File)

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‘Whale ballet’: Video shows 3 humpbacks jump in unison, …

This still image from video provided by Robert Addie shows three humpback whales leaping from the water off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., on Monday, July 24, 2023. Robert Addie, celebrating his birthday on the ocean with his three daughters, captured video of the three humpback whales leaping from the water in near perfect unison. (Robert Addie via AP)

DNA tests confirm the body found on a Swiss glacier is …

Last of nearly 100 pilot whales that beached on Australia’s …

In this photo provided by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, rescuers tend to a long-finned pilot whales, Wednesday, July 26, 2023, after nearly 100 whales beached themselves at Cheynes Beach east of Albany, Australia. Volunteers worked frantically on a second day to save dozens of pilot whales that have stranded themselves but more than 50 have already died. (DBCA via AP)

6 days after fuel spill reported, most in Tennessee city …

A police officer helps hand out bottled water to residents on Monday, July 24, 2023 at Forest Hill Elementary School in Germantown, Tenn. Residents of the Tennessee city were told that diesel fuel spilled into a local reservoir, and to avoid drinking tap water. People remain under an order Wednesday, July 26 to avoid using water for everything except flushing toilets. They can’t drink or boil tap water, or use it showering or bathing. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian via AP)

Clean energy push in New Jersey, elsewhere met with warnings …

A construction worker walks on what will be the top of a new home being built in Brick, N.J. on July 10, 2023. Government pushes to move buildings and vehicles away from burning fossil fuels to help address climate change are generating pushback in New Jersey and around the nation, with opponents worried about the cost of switching. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

Japan records steepest population decline while number …

People walk along a pedestrian crossing at Ginza shopping street on March 31, 2023, in Tokyo. Japan's population declined in all of its 47 prefectures for the first time in a record drop, while its number of foreign residents hit a new high, reaching almost 3 million people, according to government data released Wednesday, July 26, 2023, highlighting the increasing role that non-Japanese people play in the shrinking and aging country. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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Maine lawmakers endorse proposal that would jumpstart …

FILE - A lobster boat passes the country's first floating wind turbine off the coast of Castine, Maine, Sept. 20, 2013. Maine is poised to launch an offshore wind program to meet clean energy goals with a goal of producing enough power for about 900,000 homes from floating wind turbines in the Gulf of Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Climate change leaves fingerprints on July heat waves …

FILE - Youngsters enjoy a warm evening before sunset in Bucharest, Romania, July 19, 2023. A new study Tuesday, July 25, finds these intense and deadly hot spells gripping much of the globe in the American Southwest and Southern Europe could not have occurred without climate change. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru, File)

NASA power outage temporarily halts contact with …

FILE - This undated photo provided by Roscosmos shows the International Space Station. A NASA power outage disrupted communication between Mission Control and the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP, File)

Fukushima residents worry nuclear plant’s wastewater …

Tomohiko Mayuzumi, a spokesperson of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, also known as TEPCO, speaks during a tour of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for The Associated Press in Futaba town, northeastern Japan, Friday, July 14, 2023. He says treated radioactive water will be diluted with more than hundred times the seawater in this blue pipe, background, to levels much safer than international standards, before released into the sea. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

California Science Center starts complex process …

Workers used a crane to hoist the Solid Rocket Aft Skirts, the bottom segments of the boosters of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, before placing them on top of a seismic isolator pad inside the Shuttle Gallery at the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center in Los Angeles, Thursday, July 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

See how an Alaska paddleboarder escaped a close encounter …

In this photo provided by Brian Williams, a whale approaches his father, Kevin Williams, while he was paddleboarding in Prince William Sound near Whittier, Alaska, on July 13, 2023. Williams survived the close encounter with a humpback whale, not even getting wet during a tense few seconds caught on camera by friends and family as a whale surfaced near him. (Brian Williams

11 mustangs die in US roundup in Nevada caught on …

FILE - A wild horse stands on a hillside on the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Indian Reservation, April 24, 2023, near McDermitt, Nev. Eleven wild horses have died in the first 10 days of a big mustang roundup in Nevada. The dead include five young foals, four horses that broke their necks and a stallion that snapped a rear leg on Wednesday, July 12, southeast of Elko, then was chased by a helicopter and horseback rider as it tried to flee on three legs for 35 minutes before it was euthanized, according to witnesses. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)