Heavy rain has caused flooding and landslides that washed away cars, forced evacuations and knocked out power around the Chinese capital.
Morocco’s argan forests are thinning under the strain of climate change, overharvesting and booming demand for luxury cosmetics.
A massive AI data center proposed near Cheyenne, Wyoming, would use more electricity than all homes in the state combined.
Derechos are long-lived storms that cause extreme wind damage, sometimes lasting eight hours and traveling hundreds of miles.
The nonprofit Save Historic American Beach is suing Nassau County under the Endangered Species Act, hoping to stop vehicles from driving on the beach, saying it’s harming sea turtle nests. However, a judge ordered mediation, meaning the parties have to sit down with their legal teams to come up with a compromise.
Chinese state media say that 30 people have died in heavy rains and flooding in and around Beijing, raising the death toll from the flooding in the region to 34.
Two tropical cyclones are swirling across the ocean southeast of Hawaii but forecasters don't expect them to cause any issues for the islands.
An official in Turkey says the country faces a “very risky week” for wildfires as blazes across parts of southeast Europe and the Balkans damaged homes and led to a huge firefighting operation that included evacuations.
This year's United Nations climate conference in November is in Belem, Brazil, a city facing high poverty and infrastructure challenges.
Wildfires that have engulfed Turkey for weeks spread rapidly overnight, turning the sky red over the eastern suburbs of Bursa, the country’s fourth-largest city and forcing over 3.500 people to flee.
New wildfires have broken out on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast and the government has declared two western provinces to be disaster zones.
The United States and Mexico have signed an agreement outlining specific steps, funds and a timetable to clean up the longstanding problem of the Tijuana River pouring sewage across the border and polluting California beaches.
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed allowing the weed killer dicamba for genetically engineered soybeans and cotton.
President Donald Trump’s plan to boost artificial intelligence and build data centers across the U.S. could speed up a building boom that was already expected to strain the nation’s ability to power it.
Philanthropist Wendy Schmidt and her husband, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, have long insisted that the scientific advancements they fund be shared widely and for the planet's protection.
An initial report finds none of the eight people killed when a boat capsized on Lake Tahoe last month were wearing life vests.
Cyprus' government spokesman says aircraft from Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and Spain are on their way to help battle a huge wildfire that has claimed the lives of two people.
The United Nations’ top court in a landmark advisory opinion says countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, and nations harmed by its effects could be entitled to reparations.
A wildfire burning in a sparsely populated region of central Oregon has become the largest fire this year and is on the verge of surpassing 100,000 acres to become a megafire.
The United Nations reports a global shift toward renewable energy, calling it a "positive tipping point."
Italy’s highest court has ruled that a lawsuit brought by climate activists against Italian energy giant Eni and its government shareholders can go ahead.
The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu is living with the daily realities of climate change, as intensifying cyclones, rising seas and saltwater intrusion reshape its coasts and disrupt life.
As global temperatures rise under climate change, the bees responsible for pollinating many crops are under increasing stress and scientists are trying to understand how they are affected.
A severe drought this summer in the Balkans has left over 1,000 cows and horses without water on a mountain in southeast Serbia, forcing the authorities to bring up emergency supplies.
In one of the top Arctic birding destinations in the world, environmental and health challenges are threatening some of the seabirds that are part of Norway’s unique coastal ecosystem.
The owner of a factory where six workers died last year in flooding from Hurricane Helene won’t face charges after a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation found no criminal wrongdoing.
A 79-year-old Jacksonville man who wandered off the summit of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire has prompted a multi-day search by state parks personnel, wildlife officers and volunteers, the New Hampshire Fish & Game Law Enforcement Division said.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Friday that the State of Florida and the Department of the Army have reached a new agreement to accelerate the restoration of the Everglades and to expedite the completion of the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Reservoir.
After the Palisades and Eaton fires scorched entire neighborhoods, the Army Corps of Engineers set up operations to recycle concrete and metal from mostly fire-damaged homes.
We’re halfway through sea turtle nesting season, and volunteers who track sea turtle nests and hatchlings say Fernandina Beach is below average for nests at this point.
Asian countries are offering to buy more U.S. liquefied natural gas to ease trade tensions with the Trump administration.
President Donald Trump is granting two years of regulatory relief to coal-fired power plants, chemical manufacturers and other industries as he seeks to reverse Biden-era regulations he considers overly burdensome.
Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of powerful quakes within the last five years.
Louisiana is officially canceling a $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement.
All solar and wind energy projects on federal lands and waters must be personally approved by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.
North Carolina has declared a state of emergency after Tropical Storm Chantal caused severe flooding and at least six deaths.
For 37 years in a searing California desert, runners from across the globe have embarked on a 135-mile race through one of the hottest places on Earth.
With record temperatures hitting the U.S., pet owners have to protect their four-legged family members from dangers like heat stroke and dehydration.
A spokesman for Camp Mystic, the Texas enclave devastated by a July 4 flash flood, is raising concerns about communication failures during the disaster.
The nation’s largest public utility says it is looking at other sites for a new natural gas power plant after its preferred location in Tennessee drew heavy public scrutiny, including from country musician John Rich.
Communities along a 700-mile stretch of Alaska’s southern coast ordered their residents to higher ground after a powerful earthquake, but officials quickly downgraded and then canceled a tsunami warning in the area.
Twenty Democratic-led states have filed a lawsuit against the Federal Emergency Management Agency over the cancellation of a disaster mitigation grant program.
At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, a half-dozen workers are making what appear to be gray billiard balls.
The National Park Service is defending its handling of a lightning-sparked wildfire that destroyed the Grand Canyon Lodge.
MP Materials, the operator of the only rare earths mine in the United States, has signed a $500 million deal with Apple.
A weather system moving across Florida wasn’t even a tropical something but it has the potential to develop into a tropical depression as it moves across the Gulf later in the week.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference on Tuesday morning to mark the completion of a dam in the Everglades.
A group of several dozen Indigenous youth from across the Klamath Basin recently emerged victorious after a month-long journey paddling the Klamath River.
The Trump administration has made it harder for people, local and state governments to find critical climate change reports.
Fast fashion relies heavily on synthetic fibers that are made from oil and gas, fossil fuels that cause climate change.
With scorching temperatures in the forecast, we're reminding parents and guardians about the threat of hot car deaths. And there are OTHER things you should never leave in a car on a hot day.
The $20 million Nassau County Shore Protection Project to renourish the Fernandina Beach shoreline from Fort Clinch to Saddler Road has finished months ahead of schedule.
The Indian government has proposed requiring the lowest temperature setting on all new air conditioners to be 20 Celsius, or 68 Fahrenheit.
The search for those missing after Yemen’s Houthi rebels sank a ship in the Red Sea has ended as at least four people are presumed dead and 11 others remain unaccounted for.
The new tax law signed by President Donald Trump creates a federal tax deduction for interest on auto loans.
Wildfire smoke from Canada has made for bad air quality over parts of the Upper Midwest.
A study puts the spotlight on Texas as the leading U.S. state by far for flood-related deaths, with more than 1,000 of them from 1959 to 2019.
The osprey is in decline in one of its key territories and some scientists blame overfishing of menhaden, an important food for the birds.
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors.
The 2025 Florida Python Challenge kicked off Friday, with competitors starting as early as 12:01 a.m. searching the Everglades to find and remove invasive Burmese pythons.
The maker of a wind turbine blade that broke apart off Nantucket Island and washed onto beaches last summer has agreed to a $10 million settlement.
Along the banks of creeks and rivers outside of Austin, farmers growing everything from Christmas trees to ostriches have been affected by flooding.
With $10,000 at stake and no boundaries along the Atlantic, anglers have a better shot at landing the biggest red snapper in Mayport's expanded tournament.
Officials at the Comfort Volunteer Fire Department triggered a flood warning siren last week when the Guadalupe River began to swell.
A retired nurse, her son and a family friend say they were lucky to survive last week's flash floods in Texas that killed more than 100 people, including many summer campers.
Officials are tracking the largest swarm of earthquakes in more than 15 years at Mount Rainier in Washington.
Catastrophic floods often bring with them loss of power, cuts to key emergency communications and sudden hazardous situations that leave victims with only minutes or seconds to seek higher ground and stay safe.
Officials in southern New Mexico say the number of homes destroyed and damaged by a deadly flash flood will only rise as crews survey more neighborhoods in the mountain village of Ruidoso.
Each year from June to September, a series of heavy rains known as monsoons sweep through the Indian subcontinent, providing relief from heat, irrigating the country’s farms and replenishing its rivers.
Though natural disasters cycle across seasons and regions in the U.S., it’s often a shocking discovery for property owners how expansive and expensive flood and water damage can be when a major storm devastates their homes, businesses and communities.
The city of Atlantic Beach is working to combat the spread of Beach Vitex, an aggressive invasive plant threatening the vital dune ecosystems.
Most U.S. adults who've experienced major flooding in the past five years think climate change was at least a partial cause.
Crews are working to clear twisted metal, broken trees and muddy debris from streets and homes a day after monsoon rains triggered a deadly flash flood in southern New Mexico.
Scientists have linked last week’s European heat wave to human-caused climate change and estimate that climate change was responsible for 1,500 deaths.
Just weeks ago, President Donald Trump said he wanted to begin “phasing out” the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this hurricane season to “wean off of FEMA” and “bring it down to the state level.”.
