As the flames of a raging wildfire swept towards the town of Samui-ri in South Korea's mountainous southeast this week, a
March 28, 2025
A combination of an aging society and a reliance on temporary workers meant older people were disproportionately on the frontlines tackling South Korea's devastating
March 28, 2025
A powerful earthquake killed more than 140 people in Myanmar on Friday, authorities said, toppling buildings and wrecking infrastructure across a wide area, including a skyscraper
March 28, 2025
A growing number of Latin American women are choosing not to give birth in a radical departure from the traditional family roles that
March 28, 2025
Environmental activists from around the globe have eagerly awaited Brazil's turn hosting the United Nations climate summit, known
March 28, 2025
The U.S.
March 28, 2025
Clean air has become one of America’s best investments, returning $10 for every $1 spent on regulations, by one estimate.
March 12, 2025
Monterey Bay Aquarium seeks local participants for social impact study
March 28, 2025
Everyone is talking about Greenland. Here’s what it’s like to visit
January 12, 2025
Cape Coral homeowner faces unexpected visitor: Nearly 7-foot alligator found on porch
March 28, 2025
Tribal governance takes a long view based in Native peoples’ deep history with these lands.
March 28, 2025
A cargo ship which collided with a U.S. tanker in the North Sea earlier this month has been towed to the Scottish port of Aberdeen
March 28, 2025
Scientists redid an experiment that showed how life on Earth could have started. They found a new possibility
March 28, 2025
Officials say the most destructive wildfires ever to hit South Korea are almost contained
March 28, 2025
Japan issues guidelines telling public what to do if Mount Fuji erupts
March 28, 2025
Vast areas of Australia’s Queensland under water after ‘unprecedented’ flooding
March 28, 2025
These 60-year-old geckos could be the world’s oldest
March 28, 2025
A company that specializes in early wildfire detection has developed a new, AI-based drone that it says will help speed up the detection, location and monitoring of fires
March 28, 2025
South Korean authorities have contained the main blazes in the country's largest forest fire on record, a minister said on Friday, as
March 27, 2025
At least a half-dozen large wildfires continue to burn in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina and North Carolina
March 27, 2025
Demand for the patchouli plant’s oils has skyrocketed in recent years, and so too has the number of farmers in the region who now grow and process it
March 28, 2025
As part of a push to roll back dozens of environmental regulations, the Trump administration is offering coal-fired power plants and other industrial polluters a chance to receive exemptions from rules requiring them to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals, including mercury, arsenic and benzene
March 27, 2025
Wall Street's top regulator said on Thursday it had voted to cease legal efforts to defend regulations that require companies to disclose climate-related emissions, risks and spending, and
March 27, 2025
Arctic sea ice had its weakest winter buildup since record-keeping began 47 years ago
March 27, 2025
The Trump administration invited companies to email the Environmental Protection Agency to seek presidential exemptions from nine clean-air regulations, including mercury limits
March 27, 2025
Nineteen sea turtles that rehabbed in Missouri after suffering the effects of cold water temperatures in New England are now back in the Atlantic Ocean off of Jacksonville, Florida
March 27, 2025
New research finds that global warming has significantly reduced the amount of water that’s being stored around the world in soil, lakes, rivers, snow and other places on land
March 27, 2025
Just Stop Oil says it will stop throwing soup at paintings and end disruptive protest
March 27, 2025
Multilevel selection is a controversial concept originally proposed by Darwin. A new study found evidence for it in the wild in a group of marmots scientists have been observing for more than 60 years.
March 27, 2025
Crews battle Freedom Farm Fire in Leicester, more than 80 acres burned, 0% contained
March 27, 2025
Family forced from home during Helene loses their 'Cabin of Hope' to North Carolina fires
March 27, 2025
British Steel says it is planning to close its two blast furnaces and steelmaking operations in the north England town of Scunthorpe, after its Chinese owner Jingye failed to agree a rescue package with the U.K. government
March 27, 2025
Overfishing, disease and environmental crimes cause social and political instability, economic strife and strained international relations.
March 27, 2025
The Trump admin accuses EPA of squirreling away $20 billion in ‘gold bars.’ Here’s what’s really going on.
March 27, 2025
The heavy rains that led to catastrophic flooding in central Argentina and killed 16 people earlier this month were partly fueled by climate change and could become
March 27, 2025
Charred, black ruins at South Korea's Gounsa temple stood on Thursday in stark contrast to the kaleidoscope of colours that are a
March 27, 2025
Centuries-old Buddhist temple destroyed in ‘unprecedented’ and deadly South Korea wildfires
March 26, 2025
The sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry is falling short of its 2030 targets with production not ramping up quickly enough, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) found in
March 27, 2025
Wildfires raging in South Korea doubled in size on Thursday from a day earlier, as authorities called the blazes the country's worst
March 27, 2025
Firefighters have announced progress on containing two of the largest wildfires burning in the North Carolina mountains, but are warning that fire danger remains from dry and windy conditions
March 26, 2025
A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said late on Wednesday, adding weight to
March 27, 2025
Multiple wildfires raging across South Korea’s southern regions for days have killed 26 people and destroyed more than 300 structures, as thousands of personnel and dozens of helicopters has mobilized again to battle the the county’s worst-ever blazes
March 27, 2025
Japan’s natural hot springs are running low. Overtourism is to blame
March 27, 2025
Fish sauce is an indelible part of Vietnam's culture and essential for its vibrant cuisine
March 26, 2025
South Texas faces half a year’s worth of rain as rare severe storms threaten the Pacific Northwest
March 26, 2025
$1.2 billion power plant faces environmental pushback
March 26, 2025
Researchers at Columbia University remain in limbo after the Ivy League institution bowed to the Trump administration’s demands for unprecedented changes in a bid to restore some $400 million in federal funds cut
March 26, 2025
Micromobility startup Also said on Wednesday it has been spun-off from electric-vehicle maker Rivian Automotive with $105 million in Series B funding from venture capital
March 26, 2025
The Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine could come back online within months of a ceasefire, but it would probably take more than a year to
March 26, 2025
Ukraine accused Moscow on Wednesday of being incapable of managing safety at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after what it said were reports of a huge spillage of
March 26, 2025
Cyprus says it will make money available to subsidize construction of private desalination plants at hotels on the tourism-reliant island nation as dwindling fresh water reserves in 108 dams are reaching alarmingly low levels
March 26, 2025
Environmental groups and residents are suing the Spanish state and the region of Galicia in a landmark case over alleged decades-long mismanagement of pollution caused by intensive
March 26, 2025
Relatively wet and mild weather has kept Norway's hydropower reservoirs well-filled over the winter but also limits the risk of a large spring flood that could see water
March 26, 2025
Accelerated climate action could boost global GDP by 0.2% by 2040 compared with current policies, a study showed on Tuesday, as delegates from 40 countries meet in
March 25, 2025
Last year was Ukraine's worst year for wildfires in more than three decades of record-keeping, as shelling along front lines in the war with Russia triggered an
March 26, 2025
Russia sees scope for international investors, including from the Global South, to help develop its Arctic region, a senior official said on Wednesday.
March 26, 2025
Wind-driven wildfires in South Korea’s southern regions have killed at least 24 people, forced the evacuation of 28,800 others and destroyed more than 300 structures
March 25, 2025
What goes down your toilet and drain can end up on farm fields across the United States
March 26, 2025
Opposition to the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer is growing across the country
March 26, 2025
Firefighters, residents brace for potential merger of Black Cove and Deep Woods fires
March 26, 2025
Black Cove Complex fire grows, more evacuations ordered, homes destroyed
March 26, 2025
These discarded objects will form humanity’s lasting geological footprint, paleontologists say
March 26, 2025
Dry conditions, wind and trees downed by Hurricane Helene are fueling wildfires in North and South Carolina
March 25, 2025
A moving memoir by Swedish singer Neneh Cherry and the gripping story of a heart transplant by British doctor Rachel Clarke are among finalists for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction
March 26, 2025
An international agency reports that the installation of renewable energy worldwide hit a record high last year, with 92.5% of all new electricity brought online coming from the sun, wind or other clean sources
March 26, 2025
An Australian senator pulled out a large, dead fish in Parliament on Wednesday to protest the government's proposed laws that would safeguard controversial salmon
March 26, 2025
China's glacier area has shrunk by 26% since 1960 due to rapid global warming, with 7,000 small glaciers disappearing completely and glacial retreat intensifying in recent years,
March 26, 2025
A pilot and two children survived on the wing of a plane for about 12 hours after it crashed and was partially submerged in an icy Alaska lake
March 25, 2025
Panama has not authorized visits to First Quantum's shuttered Cobre Panama mine, the country's Ministry of Commerce and Industry said in a statement on Tuesday.
March 26, 2025
They are known as silent killers. Now, unprecedented recordings reveal first known shark sounds
March 26, 2025
Phoenix flirted with its first 100-degree day of the year but fell just short of that milestone
March 25, 2025
A Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) above-ground power line near the Pacific Palisades was energized when the Palisades Fire began early this year
March 25, 2025
At least 16 people have died as multiple wildfires rage across South Korea's southeastern region.
March 25, 2025
Senate Democrats accuse the Environmental Protection Agency of breaking the law when they cancelled grants worth more than $1.5 billion focused on improving the environment in minority communities hit hard by pollution
March 25, 2025
Chewing gum can shed microplastics into saliva, research finds
March 25, 2025
A new map of hazard severity zones established by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection greatly expands the areas labeled as being at “very high” risk of fire. Owners of homes within these zones will be required to establish fire mitigation measures on their property. The last map was issued in 2011. In the years since then, the danger posed by large fires in California has mounted rapidly. All four of the most destructive fires in California history — The Camp Fire in 2018, Tubbs Fire in 2017, and the Palisades and Eaton Fires this year — have
March 25, 2025
U.S.
March 25, 2025
Trump administration highlights drug cartels as major national security threat but omits climate change
March 25, 2025
Payne County wildfires caused 8 years' worth of damage in 12 hours, officials said
March 25, 2025
Woman shares 'extremely terrifying' moment she says her car was hit by lightning
March 25, 2025
Bangladesh reported a first outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu on a farm since 2018, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Tuesday, citing local authorities.
March 25, 2025
New buoys listen for critically endangered right whale sounds off Massachusetts coast
March 25, 2025
The wildfires that used to burn each summer in the woods above the Spanish village of Barro have diminished to almost none since Lucia Perez
March 25, 2025
Honeywell said on Tuesday it has appointed David Sewell to lead its advanced materials business, which is set to be spun off into an independently listed company by late this year or early
March 25, 2025
Wildfires spread across South Korea's southeastern region on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of thousands of inmates from local prisons and
March 25, 2025
Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest members of a rather strange group of dinosaurs, a
March 25, 2025
Students collab with Mixed Blood to merge theater with climate activism
March 25, 2025
Several residents of Los Angeles who were affected by the deadly Palisades wildfire sued city authorities over claims that municipal utility power lines ignited the fire, according to a
March 25, 2025
The Army Corps of Engineers will complete as soon as next week its revised list of energy projects that could be fast-tracked under President Donald Trump's
March 25, 2025
Fires are a natural part of the landscape and essential for many species. But scores of fires at once were more than anyone bargained for.
March 05, 2025
Since the 2023 Maui fires that destroyed Lahaina, communities across Hawaii have sought ways to protect themselves from more destructive fires wrought by decades of climate change, urban development, and detrimental land use policies
March 25, 2025
The American Society of Civil Engineers said that the state of U.S. infrastructure had improved, though just a little
March 24, 2025
A decade of fieldwork is revealing how one of biology’s fundamental principles works in real time.
March 25, 2025
After a judge ordered the Trump administration to rehire thousands of probationary workers who were fired in a dramatic downsizing of the U.S. government, many have been asked to return to work only to be put on administrative leave, or offered early retirement
March 25, 2025
Crews, property owners work to protect structures as Polk County wildfires grow
March 25, 2025
Code Red air quality alert expanded to more counties as North Carolina wildfires grow
March 25, 2025
Students explore nuclear facilities in virtual reality and learn about the ethical dimensions of nuclear technology in a University of Michigan course.
March 25, 2025
State lawmakers are looking to ban non-existent ‘chemtrails.’ It could have real-life side effects.
March 25, 2025
Five traumatized lions rescued from the war zone in Ukraine who are settling into a new home in England after an international effort to bring them to safety
March 25, 2025
Firefighters in North and South Carolina are battling multiple wind-driven wildfires
March 24, 2025
The U.S.
March 24, 2025
Deadly wildfires spread further across South Korea on Monday as authorities designated three more counties 'special disaster zones'.
March 24, 2025
Yellowstone National Park has a new thermal vent spewing steam in the air that could be visible to tourists once visitors flock back into the park
March 24, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a petition filed by young climate activists who argued that the federal government's role in climate change violated their constitutional rights
March 24, 2025
Japan’s official cherry blossom spotters on Monday confirmed the first blooming of the country’s favorite flower, declaring the official start of the festive season in the Japanese capital
March 24, 2025
Murphy, beloved bald eagle who went viral for incubating a rock, dies after Missouri storms
March 24, 2025
Gov. Henry McMaster declares a state of emergency due to Table Rock wildfires
March 24, 2025
WILDFIRE AFTERMATH: Victims still looking for missing pets
March 24, 2025
Spread of Australia’s red fire ant population has sent 23 people to hospital
March 24, 2025
Supreme Court declines appeal from youths seeking to force action on climate crisis
March 24, 2025
Approximately 38 vehicles crashed into each other on I-27 in Canyon, Texas, due to dust storms caused by strong winds. Multiple injuries were reported, but none are life-threatening, according to local authorities.
March 18, 2025
As Trump works to cut FEMA, data shows there was a major disaster declaration every four days in 2024
March 24, 2025
Around the globe, hotter temperatures stoked by climate change are increasing the odds of both severe drought and heavier precipitation that can wreak havoc on people and the environment
March 24, 2025
A driver and passenger in Missouri were forced to shelter in their car as a tornado ripped through the area. A powerful storm system roared across the Midwest and South Friday night, unleashing a series of tornadoes that left a trail of destruction and killed at least 10 people.
March 15, 2025
The number of insect species is mind-boggling – and they are a critical part of the environment.
March 24, 2025
Public lands are quintessentially American, and in many ways they define and shape the American identity. There are a few ways to better shield them from political whims.
March 24, 2025
Polk County wildfires scorch 5,000 acres with little containment, residents voice concerns
March 24, 2025
South Korea fights deadly wildfires in southeast as thousands evacuate
March 24, 2025
Climbing Mount Fuji will now require a $27 fee and a test
March 24, 2025
Wildfires in the Carolinas burn more than 6,000 acres, prompting evacuations, a burn ban and National Guard deployment
March 24, 2025
Emergency crews in at least three states are battling small wildfires
March 23, 2025
Babcock, Florida was developer Syd Kitson’s sustainable dream town, built and engineered around its own solar array and to withstand flooding and high winds. CNN’s Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir reports how the town held up through two hurricanes for “Adaptation Nation” on "The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper" Sunday March 23 at 8pm ET/PT on CNN.
March 23, 2025
Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to
March 23, 2025
A beloved bald eagle who gained popularity after incubating a rock is mourned after dying from head trauma sustained during violent storms in Missouri last week
March 22, 2025
Trump has begun another trade war. Here's a timeline of how we got here
Canada's leader laments lost friendship with US in town that sheltered stranded Americans after 9/11
Chinese EV giant BYD's fourth-quarter profit leaps 73%
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