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China plans to land astronauts on moon before 2030, …

Chinese astronauts for the upcoming Shenzhou-16 mission, from left, Gui Haichao, Jing Haipeng, and Zhu Yangzhu wave as they stand behind glass during a meeting with the press at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Monday, May 29, 2023. China's space program plans to land astronauts on the moon before 2030, a top official with the country's space program said Monday. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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IAEA team in Japan for final review before planned discharge …

FILE - This photo shows some of about 1,000 huge tanks holding treated but still radioactive wastewater at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), in Okuma town, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 22, 2023. An International Atomic Energy Agency team arrived in Tokyo on Monday, May 29, 2023, for a final review before Japan begins releasing massive amounts of treated radioactive water into the sea from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, a plan that has been strongly opposed by local fishing communities and neighboring countries. (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi, File)

Brazil: UN regional group has endorsed Amazon city to …

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during a news conference after attending the Group of Seven nations' summit in Hiroshima, western Japan, Monday, May 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

Crash of private Japanese moon lander blamed on software, …

FILE - In this photo provided by ispace, engineers and affiliates work on the flight model of the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 Lunar Lander at the IABG Space Test Centre in Ottobrunn, Germany, in August 2022. A Tokyo company whose lunar lander slammed into the moon last month says inadequate software and a last-minute switch in the touchdown location led to the crash. Officials for the company ispace said Friday, May 26, 2023 that its spacecraft was originally supposed to land in a flat plain. (ispace Via AP)

Three cheetah cubs die in India amid sweltering heat wave

FILE- Two cheetahs are seen inside a quarantine section before being relocated to India at a reserve near Bella Bella, South Africa, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. Three cheetah cubs, born to a big cat brought to India from Africa last year, died in May, 2023. Their mother was among the 20 that India flew in from Namibia and South Africa, as a part of an ambitious and hotly contested plan to reintroduce them to Indian grasslands. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)

Virgin Galactic completes final test flight before launching …

This photo released by Virgin Galactic shows mission specialist Jamila Gilbert, center, looking out one of the portal windows as she experiences weightlessness during a test flight on Thursday, May 25, 2023. Virgin Galactic completed what’s expected to be its final test flight Thursday before taking paying customers on brief trips to space. (Virgin Galactic via AP)

Shift to clean energy accelerating, but coal investments …

Smoking chimneys and solar panel farm are seen along a highway in a coal producing region in Yulin in northwestern China's Shaanxi province, April 24, 2023. Energy security concerns, worsened by the war in Ukraine, and policy support from rich countries are likely to help investments in clean energy outpace spending on fossil fuels, the International Energy Agency said in a report issued Thursday, May 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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Flying drones and chasing data, Indigenous women …

Gate operator Hakim Altaf checks the gate on the seawall in Georgetown, Guyana, Thursday, April 13, 2023. The seawall relies on dozens of workers like Altaf, who set alarms night and day to manually open and close sluice gates known as “kokers” that prevent the Atlantic Ocean from flooding Guyana. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

What makes a storm a typhoon? What’s a super typhoon?

This Himawari-9 infrared satellite image taken at 2 p.m. EDT and provided by NOAA shows Typhoon Mawar passing over the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, Wednesday, May 24, 2023. (NOAA via AP)

Yellowstone baby bison put to death after visitor …

FILE - A herd of bison grazes in the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park on Aug. 3, 2016. Yellowstone National Park officials say they had to kill a newborn bison because its herd wouldn’t take the animal back after a man picked it up. Park officials say in a statement the calf became separated from its mother when the herd crossed the Lamar River in northeastern Yellowstone on Saturday, May 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

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Lolita the whale may someday return to wild, Miami …

FILE - Trainer Marcia Hinton pets Lolita, a captive orca whale, during a performance at the Miami Seaquarium in Miami, March 9, 1995. Caregivers at a South Florida ocean park are taking steps to prepare Lolita, an orca whale held captive for more than a half-century, for a possible return to her home waters in Washington’s Puget Sound. The park’s owner and a nonprofit announced a plan in March 2023 to possibly move the 57-year-old orca to a natural sea pen. (Nuri Vallbona/Miami Herald via AP, File)

Fuzzy falcon chicks who nest at Michigan State football …

A peregrine falcon is held before being banded, Wednesday, May 24, 2023, in East Lansing, Mich. A state wildlife biologist banded four peregrine falcon chicks that live in a nest situated on the top of Spartan Stadium, home of Michigan State University's football team. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Red Sea corals threatened by mass sea urchin die-off, …

Dr. Omri Bronstein holds a sea urchin specimen of the long-spined Diadema setosum, found in the Mediterranean, at the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History of Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, May 24, 2023. Tel Aviv University scientists say that sea urchins in Israel's Gulf of Eilat in the Red Sea are dying at an alarming rate, threatening the sea's prized coral reef ecosystems. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)