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
Wildfire in New Jersey's Wharton State Forest burns 1,750 acres, 2 campgrounds evacuated
March 23, 2025
Milk truck wrecks on highway, spilling 6,000 gallons of dairy
March 23, 2025
Polk County wildfires continue to rage, little containment made, community meeting ahead
March 23, 2025
LA firefighters put out massive blazes. Now they worry that cancer might be smoldering inside them
March 23, 2025
The climate crisis will huff and puff, but these innovators are finding ways to stay standing
March 23, 2025
President Donald Trump’s regulatory freeze has injected chaos and uncertainty into a number of lucrative American fisheries, raising
March 23, 2025
Decades of road salt use is taking a toll on New York City’s water reservoirs
March 21, 2025
As President Donald Trump's administration seeks to roll back funding for transit, walking and biking projects, some states are trying to advance them on their own
March 22, 2025
Two Democratic U.S. senators on Friday visited the charred ruins of Altadena nearly three months after a devastating fire and made a case for more
March 21, 2025
When mountain permafrost thaws and glaciers melt, glacial lakes can become lethal flood risks for anyone downstream.
March 19, 2025
An eruption of Indonesia's Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano spewed ash clouds more than 8 kilometres (5 miles) high, authorities said as they raised the alert status to the highest level
March 21, 2025
The future of Canada's six-year-old carbon pricing system is on shaky ground after 14 oil and gas CEOs and the political opposition leader this week called for
March 21, 2025
JPMorgan Chase & Co said its asset management unit has left a flagship industry climate effort, a blow to the group that had paused operations in January in an effort to
March 21, 2025
A federal agency says it killed a collard wolf that apparently crossed from Colorado into Wyoming and killed several sheep
March 20, 2025
More than a year after Panama’s Supreme Court halted operations at a huge copper mine because its government concession was deemed unconstitutional, there’s a fresh push with the new Panamanian president to restart the mine
March 21, 2025
11 injured after large tree falls on school bus in Tewksbury Township
March 21, 2025
The Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano in south-central Indonesia has erupted, sending an ash column 26,000 feet high and prompting authorities to expand the danger zone around the volcano
March 21, 2025
Residents of the Tuscan beach enclave of Orbetello are seeking a state of emergency declaration to help combat an invasion of midges that are keeping people indoors and threatening businesses catering to tourists
March 20, 2025
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's group is battling allegations in court this month that its planned multibillion-dollar power plant
March 21, 2025
Friday, March 21 marks the inaugural World Glacier Day, an international observance established by the United Nations to raise awareness about the rapid retreat of glaciers worldwide
March 21, 2025
Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass loss on record, according to a UNESCO
March 21, 2025
The most recent eruption episode of Hawaii’s most active volcano has ended after sending fountains of lava hundreds of feet into the sky
March 20, 2025
More than three-quarters of Japanese companies have no plan to pull back from promoting workplace diversity and decarbonisation despite recent policy changes in
March 20, 2025
U.S.
March 20, 2025
Wildfires fueled by dry conditions and gusting winds are burning in a few states in the South
March 20, 2025
Chile's Patagonian Ice Dragon is a tiny and mighty insect that lives its whole life in freezing glaciers while feeding off algae and bacteria.
March 20, 2025
Hero Dad: Loved ones of Oklahoma wildfire victim who saved son share his story
March 20, 2025
Supernovas may have played a role in two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions, study suggests
March 20, 2025
Train stuck after sparking brush fire then catching fire itself
March 20, 2025
Spain's parliament voted to remove wolves' protected status on Thursday, four years after their inclusion, opening the way for the predators to be hunted again in the country's
March 20, 2025
U.S. liquefied natural gas exporters, seeking to meet standards of overseas import markets, plan to continue to monitor and curb their methane emissions
March 20, 2025
Deep in the Amazon jungle, a pregnant woman needs help.
March 20, 2025
Pyrolysis breaks down plastic and generates potentially useful oil − but it’s not a silver bullet for the planet.
March 18, 2025
Another storm system is affecting millions of people in the middle of the U.S. Parts of the Midwest and Great Plains faced blizzard conditions Wednesday and a broad swath of neighboring states are at risk of high winds and wildfires
March 19, 2025
Research that combined archaeology, history and ecology provides a nuanced understanding of the past that could help conservationists better plan for the future.
March 20, 2025
One long line of powerful winds can whip up dust storms, spread wildfires, spin up tornadoes and fuel blizzards – all at the same time across different states.
March 20, 2025
U.S. and Canadian biofuel companies are throttling back production to limit losses amid uncertainty over U.S.
March 20, 2025
Jury finds Greenpeace liable for more than $660 million in relation to pipeline protest
March 19, 2025
Greenpeace must pay a Texas-based pipeline company nearly $667 million in damages for the environmental advocacy group’s role in 2016-2017 protests against the Dakota Access
March 19, 2025
Cross-country storm unleashes a blizzard and fuels wildfires in the Plains while threatening tornadoes in the Midwest
March 18, 2025
A North Dakota jury has found Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions of dollars to a pipeline company in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline
March 19, 2025
A multi-year cleanup at a former U.S. air base in Vietnam was abruptly halted when the Trump administration cut funding, leaving tons of dioxin-contaminated soil exposed
March 19, 2025
Nationalistic behavior can put people, economies and ecosystems, and even peace, at risk. The US, which paused Columbia River talks with Canada, isn’t the only country shifting in this direction.
March 18, 2025
A North Dakota jury has found Greenpeace liable for defamation and other claims in connection with protests against an oil pipeline's construction
March 19, 2025
Brazilian meat processor JBS' decision to pursue a U.S. listing has shone a spotlight on its No. 2 shareholder, National Development Bank's (
March 19, 2025
Traffic is now flowing in and out of the Florida Keys after a brush fire led officials to briefly close U.S. 1, snarling traffic for hours for those trying to enter or leave the island chain
March 19, 2025
Wildland firefighters will keep a four-year-old pay hike under a GOP-led spending bill signed by President Donald Trump
March 19, 2025
The Trump administration’s goal is to roll back rules limiting planet-warming greenhouse gases emissions from power plants, vehicles and oil and gas production, but it could backfire for industry.
March 19, 2025
Panama's gross domestic product grew 2.9% in 2024, significantly slowing from the previous year's 7.4% expansion, as air transport declined and a major copper mine closed,
March 19, 2025
U.S.
March 19, 2025
The central Dutch city of Utrecht has installed a “fish doorbell” that lets viewers of an online livestream help fish in their springtime swim to shallow spawning grounds
March 19, 2025
'It happened so fast': Couple's Logan County home reduced to ash in wildfire
March 19, 2025
Commercial fishermen and seafood processors and distributors seeking to convert to new, lower-carbon emission systems say they are finding federal funding they were counting on for the work is frozen or unavailable in the wake of sweeping budget cuts touted by President Donald Trump
March 19, 2025
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Wednesday related to state and local infrastructure preparedness for responding to natural disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes,
March 19, 2025
A planned 3-billion-euro ($3.3 billion) site Thyssenkrupp is building in Duisburg to make carbon-neutral steel could be stranded unless Germany ensures there's sufficient green
March 19, 2025
Landslide caused by heavy rain cuts off rural Douglas County neighborhood
March 19, 2025
Couple rode out tornado in parkway bathroom
March 19, 2025
Longtime Los Altos Hills family faces eviction from home in open space preserve
March 19, 2025
A multi-year cleanup at a former U.S. air base in Vietnam was abruptly halted when the Trump administration cut funding, leaving tons of dioxin-contaminated soil exposed
March 19, 2025
A big trial in a small North Dakota courtroom is testing the First Amendment in the era of Trump
March 18, 2025
Mexico City lawmakers have voted to ban violent bullfighting in the capital
March 18, 2025
Grass fire burning in South Miami-Dade grows near Monroe County; officials shut down Card Sound Road in both directions
March 19, 2025
A U.S. judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the U.S.
March 19, 2025
Last year was the hottest year on record, the top 10 hottest years were all in the past decade and planet-heating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is at its highest levels in the last 800,000 years, a report Wednesday said
March 19, 2025
The world has just experienced its hottest decade
March 19, 2025
Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms since it was first detected in North America in late 2021
March 18, 2025
Church vows to help all of Oklahoma as wildfires burn
March 18, 2025
Record greenhouse gas levels helped bring temperatures to an all-time high in 2024, accelerating glacier and sea ice loss, raising sea levels and edging the
March 19, 2025
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from terminating $14 billion in grants awarded to three climate groups by the Biden administration
March 19, 2025
A bellowing deer and a roadside swan: British photo award shows surprising city wildlife
March 19, 2025
States with aggressive climate goals like Oregon are facing a conundrum
March 18, 2025
Dust storms and at least two brush fires have descended on New Mexico
March 18, 2025
Last September, torrential rains swept across West and Central Africa, causing devastating floods
March 19, 2025
Dust storms have proven deadly to motorists across the U.S. for years
March 18, 2025
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research program and could fire more than 1,000 scientists and other employees who help provide the scientific foundation for rules safeguarding human health and the environment
March 18, 2025
Emergency services in southern Spain are searching for a married couple after flash floods swept away their vehicle as rising waters prompted the evacuation of hundreds of homes
March 18, 2025
The Brazilian state hosting a United Nations climate summit this year has denied any connection between a new road cutting through a protected area of Brazilian rainforest
March 14, 2025
'Don't take things for granted' Maple syrup keeps Gun Lake Tribe tradition alive
March 18, 2025
Heavy rains hit Spain for a third week in a row on Tuesday, with at least two people missing and hundreds evacuated in the southern region of Andalusia, where several rivers had
March 18, 2025
Mexico City's local congress on Tuesday passed a measure aiming to make bullfights much less harmful to bulls and matadors, a move applauded by animal rights
March 18, 2025
Fire department warns of open septic tanks after rescuing dog from one
March 18, 2025
'The most Florida': Marco Island man turns iguana eggs into breakfast
March 18, 2025
Couple survives EF-4 tornado only to be trapped in their cellar
March 18, 2025
Brothers lose everything in storm, grateful to be alive
March 18, 2025
BlackRock , Vanguard and State Street have asked a federal court in Texas to dismiss a state lawsuit accusing the top fund managers of conspiring through
March 18, 2025
Coroner identifies fourth Walthall County tornado victim
March 18, 2025
A new report identifies ways to create resilient water and wastewater systems in communities hardest hit by climate change
March 18, 2025
Blobfish overcomes notoriety as ‘world’s ugliest animal’ to win New Zealand’s ‘fish of the year’
March 18, 2025
Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation’s strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts mount about the strength of the trans-Atlantic alliance, and to set up an enormous fund for investment in its creaking infrastructure
March 18, 2025
A leading assessor of company climate goals on Tuesday proposed new rules to better help companies set high-quality emissions-reduction plans,
March 18, 2025
America's ports have long struggled with dirty air that chokes nearby neighborhoods and jeopardizes the health of people living there
March 18, 2025
With Oklahomans still reeling from deadly wildfires that whipped across the state and destroyed hundreds of homes in recent days, officials in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico are warning of an increased risk of fire danger on Tuesday
March 18, 2025
Why there’s a piece of Venice on the edge of the desert
March 18, 2025
The deadliest tornado in recorded U.S. history occurred 100 years ago
March 17, 2025
Powerful storm system that tore across the US leaves at least 39 dead and devastated communities in its wake. Michael Yoshida reports.
March 17, 2025
Cross-country storm leaves at least 42 dead and vast destruction from tornadoes, wildfires and dust storms
March 17, 2025
Toronto is no longer providing financial incentives for Tesla vehicles purchased as taxis or ride shares due to trade tensions with the United States, the city's mayor,
March 17, 2025
Britain’s King Charles and Queen Camilla to visit Pope Francis next month
March 18, 2025
Residents and work crews in the South and Midwest are beginning to clean up and survey the destruction from a three-day outbreak of severe weather
March 17, 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%
You're an American in another land? Prepare to talk about the why and how of Trump 2.0
Chalk talk: Star power, top teams and No. 5 seeds headline the women's March Madness Sweet 16
Purdue returns to Sweet 16 with 76-62 win over McNeese in March Madness