The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Milton is intensifying and will likely be a major hurricane before it slams into the storm-ravaged Florida coast, most likely on Wednesday
October 06, 2024
Residents in North Carolina’s Watauga County are focused on survival rather than politics after Hurricane Helene ravaged much of the western part of the state
October 06, 2024
‘The power of water.’ How Helene devastated western North Carolina and left communities in ruins
October 06, 2024
Hurricane Milton is now a Category 4 storm that is intensifying and will strengthen further over the record-warm Gulf of Mexico, potentially to Category 5. CNN's Derek Van Dam explains its rapid intensification.
October 06, 2024
Hurricane Helene left a devastating mark on the small Latino community that makes up a disproportionate number of workers at a plastics factory in Erwin, Tennessee
October 06, 2024
Kazakhstan voted in a referendum on Sunday on whether to build its first nuclear power plant, and an exit poll showed voters backed the idea promoted by
October 06, 2024
Volunteers and local leaders in Bolivia's high-altitude city of Oruro suited up in safety gear on Saturday to clean the polluted banks of the Andean country's Lake Uru Uru,
October 05, 2024
Scenic Blue Ridge Parkway remains closed after suffering catastrophic impacts from Helene
October 05, 2024
N.C. Wildlife Commission offers tips to reduce human-bear interactions after Helene
October 05, 2024
Scientists grow mystery tree from 1,000-year-old seed
October 05, 2024
Nearly 400 miles from where Hurricane Helene made landfall, the North Carolina mountain hamlet of Chimney Rock Village has been all but wiped off the map
October 05, 2024
Chiang Mai, Thailand’s northern city popular with tourists, has been inundated by widespread flooding as its main river overflowed its banks following heavy seasonal rainfall
October 05, 2024
Forecasters say Tropical Storm Milton has formed in the Gulf of Mexico
October 05, 2024
Historic Biltmore Estate suffers ‘extensive’ damage in some places after Helene thrashes North Carolina
October 04, 2024
With misinformation swirling in Hurricane Helene’s wake, officials urge residents to ‘stop this conspiracy theory junk’
October 04, 2024
A week after Hurricane Helene overwhelmed the Southeastern U.S., homeowners hit the hardest are grappling with how they could possibly pay for the flood damage from one of the deadliest storms in recent history to hit the mainland
October 04, 2024
Stanford scientists develop gel to protect homes against wildfires
October 04, 2024
"Pig vomit" smell from feed company angers Chicago area residents
October 04, 2024
Port of LA Continues Progress Toward Cleaner Air, Report Says
October 04, 2024
North Carolina health workers are distributing Benadryl and epinephrine injections to communities after hurricane flooding has caused bees and yellow jackets to swarm from their underground nests
October 04, 2024
Colombia wants to write a unified climate and biodiversity pledge, seeking to combine efforts to protect nature with those to tackle climate
October 04, 2024
Flooding in northern Thailand has forced many residents of the city of Chiang Mai and its outskirts to seek safety on higher ground, with members of the animal world under similar threat
October 04, 2024
Supreme Court allows enforcement of Biden methane and mercury rules in rare win for the EPA
October 04, 2024
Swedish clothing retailer H&M said on Friday it plans to phase out its use of virgin down and feathers - materials that are harvested from ducks and geese and used in puffer jackets
October 04, 2024
The river port in the Amazon rainforest's largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as a drought drains waterways and
October 04, 2024
Solar storms may cause faint auroras across fringes of the northern United States this weekend
October 04, 2024
The Supreme Court has left in place two Biden administration environmental regulations aimed at reducing emissions of planet-warming methane and toxic mercury
October 04, 2024
More than half of Cuba was without power on Thursday evening as fuel shortages and broken-down power plants left the government with little choice but to black out a vast swath of
October 04, 2024
In her first days as Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum made a point of distancing herself from the fossil fuel reliance promoted by her predecessor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and vowed to resume an energy transition that he halted
October 04, 2024
The Supreme Court has agreed to step into a fight over plans to store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico
October 04, 2024
A family of killer whales who were stranded in a silted estuary in the Russian Far East have made their way to the open sea after researchers directed them into deeper water, Russia's
October 04, 2024
Around 100 elephants were forced to evacuate the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand due to severe flooding. The country's north has been hit with heavy flooding and landslides over the past few weeks, following the powerful typhoon Yagi.
October 04, 2024
About 100 rescued elephants escape flash floods at popular sanctuary in northern Thailand, two killed in evacuation
October 04, 2024
Permit granted to allow Nibi the beaver to stay with wildlife rescue group
October 03, 2024
Environment ministers of the Group of 20 nations agreed Thursday to support the creation of funding sources for ecosystem services, acknowledging Brazil’s proposal to establish a trust fund for forest conservation
October 03, 2024
Mountains of plastic waste from the fishing industry have covered the coast along the Valdes Peninsula in Argentina's Patagonia, threatening
October 03, 2024
Forecasters say Hurricane Kirk has strengthened into a Category 4 storm in the Atlantic Ocean and waves from the system could cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions this weekend
October 03, 2024
Winter sports are facing a long-time crisis because of climate change and the International Ski and Snowboard Federation has teamed up with the United Nations weather agency
October 03, 2024
The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have formed a new partnership focused on raising awareness about the impact of climate
October 03, 2024
It’s tarantula mating season on the Colorado plains, when male spiders scurry out of their burrows in search of a mate
October 03, 2024
A week after Helene struck the Southeast, power outages and impassable roads stymie recovery as death toll reaches 213
October 03, 2024
Brooke Hiers just a month ago left the state-issued emergency trailer where her family had lived after Hurricane Idalia slammed into her home on Florida's Gulf Coast in August of 2023
October 03, 2024
The devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene has brought climate change to the forefront of the presidential campaign
October 03, 2024
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says the agency tasked with helping communities recover from Hurricane Helene and other natural disasters does not have enough money to make it through the hurricane season
October 02, 2024
Francisco Mateus da Silva, 67, spent an hour walking across sandbanks and dry riverbeds where he lives in the Amazon to fetch food and water amid the worst
October 02, 2024
President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed legislation that will exempt some U.S. semiconductor manufacturing facilities from federal environmental reviews that
October 02, 2024
Authorities say heavy smoke is causing low visibility along Interstate 20 east of Atlanta from chemicals spewing from a beleaguered chlorine facility
October 02, 2024
People moved to Asheville to escape extreme weather. They forgot its tragic history.
October 02, 2024
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history has been completed near the California-Oregon border
October 02, 2024
Officials say the wildfire that killed at least 102 people on Maui last year erupted from an earlier brushfire that firefighters believed they had extinguished
October 02, 2024
Hurricane Helene dumped heavy rain on a mountainous region hundreds of miles away from the coast
October 02, 2024
Larger-than-normal apples harvested in Minnesota thanks to growing season's rainy start
October 02, 2024
A new study says hurricanes in the United States are hundreds of times deadlier in the long run than the government calculates
October 02, 2024
If your area experiences a 1,000-year rainfall event, don’t assume that you’re off the hook for the next 999 years.
October 02, 2024
Japan plans to continue safely restarting nuclear power plants and will use as much renewable energy as possible, Industry Minister Yoji Muto said on Wednesday,
October 02, 2024
The Czech lower house has approved widening the 2024 budget deficit target to 282 billion crowns ($12.34 billion) to provide 30 billion crowns for flood aid after heavy rains last
October 02, 2024
One of Giovanni Airoli’s sows tested positive for African swine fever in late August
October 02, 2024
Voting has started in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve
October 02, 2024
Tennessee state authorities are investigating the company that owns a plastics factory where 11 workers were swept away by cataclysmic flooding unleashed by Hurricane Helene
October 02, 2024
What lies beneath the Great Lakes' waves is largely unknown, but there's a new push to learn more about thousands of shipwrecks, underwater infrastructure and the impacts of climate change on the bottom of the world's largest freshwater system
October 02, 2024
Weather disasters, particularly floods, can create health threats that linger for months, from infected cuts to mold growth to mental stress.
October 01, 2024
The impact of a political backlash against environmental, social and governance-related (ESG) issues in the United States is overstated and having little bearing
October 01, 2024
A ‘ring of fire’ will soon appear in the skies over some parts of the world
October 01, 2024
Volunteers answer the call to clean debris from devastated Treasure Island beaches
October 01, 2024
Vallejo neighborhood plagued by stench from wastewater treatment plant
October 01, 2024
The federal government has given a key approval to an offshore wind farm in New Jersey
October 01, 2024
Experts say the volume of Switzerland’s glaciers shrank again this summer and compounded the negative impact of climate change after a devastating two-year run that depleted the ice by more than 10%
October 01, 2024
The enormous devastation of Hurricane Helene becomes a political flashpoint
October 01, 2024
What Hurricane Helene’s 500-mile path of destruction looks like
October 01, 2024
A chemical plant fire southeast of Atlanta is still causing trouble two days later
October 01, 2024
Desperate residents of the storm-battered mountains of western North Carolina lined up for water and food, hunted for cellphone signals and slogged buckets from creeks to flush toilets days after Hurricane Helene’s remnants deluged the region
October 01, 2024
Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region surged to the highest number for September in almost a decade and a half, preliminary government data
October 01, 2024
Black-colored plastic used for kitchen utensils and toys linked to banned toxic flame retardants
October 01, 2024
Motorsport is trying to reach Net Zero. Could fuels like this, made from air and water, help accelerate the journey?
October 01, 2024
Swiss glaciers melted at an above-average rate in 2024 as a blistering hot summer thawed through abundant snowfall, monitoring body GLAMOS
October 01, 2024
Rescuers are scouring the mountains of western North Carolina for anyone still unaccounted for since Hurricane Helene’s remnants caused catastrophic damage across the Southeast
October 01, 2024
A startup called HopfON — a play on Hopfen, the German word for hops — and a research society in Bavaria are seeking to solve the problem of waste created during the hops harvest in Germany
October 01, 2024
Wiradjuri elder Nyree Reynolds calls her home west of Sydney the valley of the Bilabula, the Indigenous name for its river.
October 01, 2024
Hurricane Helene shut at least two poultry plants in Georgia and North Carolina and twisted cotton crops in South Carolina in blows to U.S. food and fiber
September 30, 2024
Meteorologists calculate that more than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of it
September 30, 2024
U.S. utility firm PG&E Corp said on Monday it has cut power for over 9,000 customers in northern California as a precaution against heightened wildfire risks from high winds.
September 30, 2024
River ‘piracy’ gave towering Everest a growth spurt, scientists say
September 30, 2024
Nearly 400 gallons of oil spilled in California canal
September 30, 2024
A lot went wrong in the scramble to respond after a train carrying highly volatile vinyl chloride and other chemicals derailed in 2023. The lessons can help ensure safer responses in the future.
September 30, 2024
Unilever is working on sustainability deals with its top 10 retail customers, including Walmart, aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions and
September 30, 2024
A proposal to phase out large-scale confined animal farms will be put before voters in a Northern California county
September 30, 2024
A study out in Science this month finds that states' attempts to cut the amount of food waste going into landfills are rarely succeeding
September 30, 2024
Crews on Monday airlifted emergency food and water into remote North Carolina towns that were cut off and devastated by
September 30, 2024
Sonia Ferreira's two-story house with a pool and garden on the Brazilian coast was yet another casualty of the advancing waves of
September 30, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris has strongly supported clean energy investments, while Donald Trump has railed against them. But transformative shifts in the energy landscape already are well underway.
September 30, 2024
People living near these industries, as well as emergency responders, often have few details about the chemicals inside. New interactive maps pinpoint the risks.
September 30, 2024
A weekend chemical plant fire that sent a massive plume of dark smoke into the Georgia sky has led to complaints about a strong chemical smell and haze several miles away across metro Atlanta
September 30, 2024
Stark before-and-after pictures reveal dramatic shrinking of major Amazon rivers
September 30, 2024
Britain’s last coal-fired power plant is closing
September 30, 2024
Greek authorities say two people have died overnight in a large wildfire burning through forestland above a seaside resort in southern Greece
September 30, 2024
The death toll after Hurricane Helene left a trail of destruction across the U.S. Southeast has reached at least 133
September 30, 2024
An 81-year-old Montana has been sentenced to six months in federal prison and ordered to pay $24,000 in penalties for using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to illegally create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunts in Texas and Minnesota
September 30, 2024
Shelter-in-place, evacuation orders lifted a day after chemical plant fire sent a plume containing chlorine high into the air
September 29, 2024
Many areas of the U.S. Southeast are struggling to recover from the damage inflicted by Hurricane Helene
September 29, 2024
Hurricane Helene was big, strong and fast, making it a near-perfect storm to bring widespread death and destruction to the American South
September 29, 2024
Humanitarians are enlisting entertainers and creators to reach impassioned youth during climate week events that coincide with the United Nations General Assembly's high-level meetings
September 29, 2024
Rescuers in Nepal have recovered dozens of bodies from buses and other vehicles that were buried in landslides near the capital Kathmandu as the death toll from flooding rose to at least 148 with dozens missing
September 29, 2024
Tech startup uses AI to keep tabs on the grid to prevent wildfires
September 28, 2024
Floodwaters pushed by remnants of Hurricane Helene have left North Carolina’s largest mountain city isolated by damaged roads and a lack of power and cellphone service
September 28, 2024
Residents in south-western Mexico on Saturday evacuated from homes flooded by the remnants of Hurricane John that ravaged the Pacific coastline for a week,
September 28, 2024
The remnants of Hurricane Helene are dissipating but millions remain without power across the Southeast and officials warned that record-breaking river flooding is ongoing in parts of southern Appalachia
September 28, 2024
Poland's 2025 draft budget will set aside 3.2 billion zlotys ($835.88 million) as a reserve for dealing with natural disasters, the government said on Saturday, after devastating
September 28, 2024
Thai farmer forced to kill more than 100 endangered crocodiles after a typhoon damaged their enclosure
September 28, 2024
Another chapter in one of the greatest comeback stories in the world of endangered species is being written with the release of three young California condors north of the Grand Canyon
September 28, 2024
At oil and gas giant Shell, Cindy Taff was in charge of drilling wells that are considered unconventional because the oil or natural gas is difficult to access
September 27, 2024
Cities are adding trees and green spaces as one way to blunt the impact of warmer average temperatures and heat waves that are longer and hotter due to climate change
September 27, 2024
Electric vehicle owners who live in the path of hurricanes should be wary of the risk their cars could catch fire if they are inundated by saltwater as the powerful storm moves ashore
September 27, 2024
The sales of new fully electric or hybrid cars in Brazil are expected to surpass sales of vehicles run on combustion engines in 2030, a study released on Friday by automakers
September 27, 2024
Health dangers of flooding: Disease, injuries and mental health concerns
September 27, 2024
The Biden administration on Friday canceled a planned auction of offshore wind development rights off the coast of Oregon after the state's governor said she did not
September 27, 2024
UK court hands prison terms to climate activists who threw soup on Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’
September 27, 2024
Researchers tracked power outages after 8 major storms to see how wealth corresponded to recovery time.
September 27, 2024
Family rescues driver from floodwaters as Helene hits Transylvania County
September 27, 2024
The U.S. is struggling to replant forests destroyed by increasingly destructive wildfires, with some areas unlikely to recover
September 27, 2024
Rising electricity demand, especially to power data centers, could make restoring some nuclear plants that closed early financially viable.
September 27, 2024
Scientists discover hidden ancient forest on treeless island
September 27, 2024
Massive Hurricane Helene crashed into Florida’s sparsely populated Big Bend region, bringing storm surge and high winds across the state’s Gulf Coast communities before ripping into southern Georgia
September 27, 2024
Biden’s clean energy law revived this red corner of Georgia. Voters there are backing Trump anyway
September 27, 2024
Spanish lender BBVA and U.S. investor KKR said on Friday they had formed a strategic partnership focused on investments linked to the world's climate-driven
September 27, 2024
CNN meteorologist Chad Myers provides the latest weather forecast for Hurricane Helene.
September 27, 2024
At the United Nations, the troika of the current and next two presidents of U.N. climate conferences are telling other leaders to make their required climate-fighting targets much more ambitious
September 27, 2024
Germany’s beer industry relies on education and research to combat the climate change that's wreaking havoc on farms and breweries across the country
September 26, 2024
‘Zombie’ Hurricane John regains strength in Pacific, flooding parts of Mexico’s southwestern coast
September 26, 2024
Britain on Thursday named Oxford University professor Rachel Kyte as its new climate envoy and announced a new investment facility, the latest steps in the new government's
September 26, 2024
At least five African countries are working on what could be the world's first joint "debt-for-nature" swap to raise at least $2
September 26, 2024
Switzerland gave five districts the go-ahead on Thursday to shoot wolves after reports of attacks on livestock, a move that will please many farmers but anger
September 26, 2024
Warsaw Zoo is seeking suggestions to name a female baby southern pudu, the second smallest deer species in the world, after its birth two months ago.
September 26, 2024
Residents in an Ohio community where a dangerous chemical leak occurred are being allowed to return to their homes
September 26, 2024
Erosion and melting permafrost have just about destroyed the Alaska village of Newtok
September 26, 2024
Helene has made landfall in the Big Bend area of Florida's northwestern coast as a Category 4 hurricane
September 26, 2024
The promised ‘white gold rush’ would extract lithium alongside geothermal power production. The mineral is used in EV batteries, but even this less-polluting mining raises local health concerns.
September 26, 2024
Two rabies epidemics in animals spurred a state health emergency in Texas and a program that oversees annual mass wildlife vaccination. Millions of doses have been distributed since the ‘90s.
September 26, 2024
Shell, Equinor and TotalEnergies said on Thursday their carbon dioxide (CO2) storage project on Norway's west coast is now completed and ready to receive CO2, with its
September 26, 2024
Pandas An An and Ke Ke, a gift from Beijing to Hong Kong, arrived in the Chinese territory on Thursday to much fanfare, with officials welcoming them at
September 26, 2024
Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida's Big Bend region late Thursday as one of the most powerful storms to hit the state, raising fears
September 26, 2024
Barbados will call for creation of a new World Bank finance facility to provide emergency liquidity to climate-vulnerable countries in a third version of the
September 26, 2024
Third Rodanthe house in the past week collapses in the Outer Banks
September 25, 2024
A slow-motion catastrophe has been playing out in the coastal North Carolina village of Rodanthe
September 25, 2024
Raging wildfire covers Ecuadorian capital in smoke
September 25, 2024
A federal judge has approved a $600 million class-action settlement involving last year's disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio
September 25, 2024
Fully decarbonizing California's electrical grid will require more firm clean power sources, including advanced geothermal and natural gas with carbon capture, Edison
September 25, 2024
Franco-Italian automaker Stellantis and French nuclear fuels firm Orano have dropped their planned joint venture to recycle electric car batteries, both companies said on Wednesday.
September 25, 2024
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to further regulate fluoride in drinking water because high levels could pose a risk to the intellectual development of children
September 25, 2024
New Jersey has hit pause on an offshore wind energy project that is having a hard time finding someone to manufacture blades for its turbines
September 25, 2024
Wildfires have burned through 40,000 hectares (400 square kilometers) of Argentina's central farming region of Cordoba, according to officials, leaving charred
September 25, 2024
The European Union is moving toward backing plans to remove some of its protections for wolves on the continent as their population grows, in the latest political clash between farmers and environmentalists
September 25, 2024
California's lawsuit on Monday accusing Exxon of fueling global plastic waste pollution by misleading the public about the limitations of recycling is the latest in a
September 25, 2024
Farmers in the United States who raise livestock in large industrial operations could get funding from President Joe Biden's signature climate law to transition to more
September 25, 2024
An evacuation order remains in effect for residents in an Ohio community as crews work at the scene of a dangerous chemical leak
September 25, 2024
Honda has a long reputation for building highly fuel-efficient cars and trucks, and now it’s getting serious about EVs with the all-new 2024 Prologue
September 25, 2024
Students found the topic of climate change less boring when they studied it using a numbers estimation game.
September 25, 2024
The government of Azerbaijan, host of this year's COP29 U.N. climate summit, has offered to cover the costs for negotiators from climate-vulnerable small islands to
September 25, 2024
An EV plant bolstered by Biden’s climate law sparks hope in Northeast Ohio – but not a revival of its Democratic roots
September 25, 2024
An Alaska national park’s annual celebration of the beefy, brown and bristly is getting underway as some of the chunkiest bears on the planet fatten up for their long winter slumber
September 25, 2024
South Korea has been forced to repeatedly shut down runways at the two main airports for the capital Seoul since June due to disruption from balloons carrying trash
September 25, 2024
Climate change has made downpours like the one that caused devastating floods in central Europe this month twice as likely to occur, a report said on Wednesday, as its scientific
September 25, 2024
Century-old trees die in Harlem parks as erosion pattern emerges
September 25, 2024
Residents of Ohio community allowed to return after chemical leak from railroad car forced evacuations
September 25, 2024
A raging wildfire filled Ecuador's capital of Quito with smoke and threatened homes on Tuesday as authorities rushed to control the blaze at a time when a historic drought has
September 25, 2024
The way the Environmental Protection Agency has reported its test results since the disastrous East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment last year makes it hard for residents to know the full extent of the contamination they have been exposed to that they worry could increase their risk of cancer
September 24, 2024
Human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood of the heavy rainfall that caused floods killing 24 people in Central Europe earlier this month, a new flash study found
September 24, 2024
Students in school buildings and residents in nearby homes have been told to evacuate near Cincinnati after a dangerous chemical began leaking from a railcar
September 24, 2024
Hurricanes have changed. The way we prepare for them should, too.
September 24, 2024
Mysterious magma in extinct volcanoes may be filled with elements needed to power the future
September 24, 2024
World leaders on Tuesday called for far more investment in renewable energy to tackle climate change, with developing nations saying they need
September 24, 2024
Macquarie Group's asset management division is taking a minority stake in the green-energy arm of U.S. investor D.E.
September 24, 2024
Grateful Poles are heaping praise to honor their silent hero that just saved them: a floodwater reservoir that spared the cities of Opole and Wroclaw from imminent flooding that ravaged parts of Central Europe
September 24, 2024
Amazon and other companies have agreed to buy carbon offset credits that will support the conservation of its namesake rainforest in the Brazilian state of Para, in
September 24, 2024
Tuvalu and its 11,000 people, who live on nine atolls scattered across the Pacific, are running out of time.
September 24, 2024
Tropical Storm John turns deadly after slamming into Mexico, bringing heavy rain and landslides
September 24, 2024
Off the coast of Oregon, the wind blows hard and waves are strong, attracting researchers and businesses interested in developing two kinds of clean electricity: wave energy and floating offshore wind
September 24, 2024
The desert city of Phoenix, Arizona, suffered a record 113 straight days with temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) this year, leading to
September 23, 2024
As concern about plastic pollution mounts, the federal government is revising its standards for calling products recyclable. A recent fine against Keurig could be a sign of things to come.
September 23, 2024
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration on Monday for declaring the dunes sagebrush lizard an endangered species, saying the politically
September 23, 2024
California sues ExxonMobil for alleged decades of deception around plastic recycling, in first-of-its-kind lawsuit
September 23, 2024
U.S. oil producers were scrambling on Monday to evacuate staff from Gulf of Mexico oil production platforms as the second major hurricane in two weeks was predicted to tear through
September 23, 2024
California is suing ExxonMobil for allegedly deceiving the public for half a century by promising that recycling would address the global plastics pollution crisis
September 23, 2024
Developing nations on Monday pleaded at the U.N.
September 23, 2024
Wildfires in Bolivia are now running on a track to set an all-time record, latest satellite data show, with fire hot-spots to-date overtaking the rate in the same
September 23, 2024
CNN meteorologist Chad Myers shares more about an area of thunderstorms in the Caribbean that is expected to develop into Hurricane Helene and rapidly intensify over the exceptionally warm Gulf of Mexico before slamming into the United States Gulf Coast later this week as a major hurricane.
September 23, 2024
California and several environmental groups sued Exxon Mobil on Monday and accused the oil giant of engaging in a decades-long campaign that helped fuel global
September 23, 2024
A tugboat powered by ammonia sailed for the first time Sunday in the Hudson River to show how the maritime industry can slash planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions
September 23, 2024
Pollution solutions start with public pressure, often in the face of industry pushback and slow-moving political responses.
September 23, 2024
Officials from nine southern European Union member countries are focused on harnessing offshore wind and solar energy
September 23, 2024
The gigantic dunes rising up out of the world’s oldest desert
September 23, 2024
Bill Thompson's fight to stop offshore wind farms was once confined to the tiny U.S. state of Rhode Island where he lives.
September 23, 2024
More than 40% of major companies, cities and regions have still not set any targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to an annual "stocktake" released
September 22, 2024
U.N. Secretary General António Guterres launched a two-day, climate-themed "Summit for the Future" on Sunday as part of the U.N.
September 22, 2024
“Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom
September 22, 2024
Biden speaks Tuesday in NYC to draw contrast between Democrats and Republicans on energy and climate
September 22, 2024
Gazans camped by the shore to the west of the city of Khan Younis have had to either move their makeshift homes to safer areas or come up with new ways to withstand the rising tides and winds.
September 22, 2024
A key ingredient has been missing from California’s wildfires this year. Experts worry things will get worse if it arrives
September 22, 2024
Pope Francis on Sunday condemned the killing last week of an environmental activist in Honduras who had protested over mining and hydro-electric projects to try to protect
September 22, 2024
Swiss voters have rejected a proposal to increase protections for the Alpine country's cherished plant and animal life
September 22, 2024
The rhino population across the world has increased slightly but so have the killings, mostly in South Africa, as poaching fed by huge demand for rhino horns remains a top threat
September 22, 2024
Four Greenpeace activists who were arrested for scaling the country estate of former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last year to protest his oil and gas drilling expansion plans have been cleared of criminal charges
September 21, 2024
Families in a South Dakota neighborhood are fearing for their safety as sinkholes have appeared around their homes in the area above an old underground mine
September 21, 2024
The annual New York City Climate Week and United Nations General Assembly that's just about to start are emphasizing how to generate trillions of dollars that will be needed to help poorer countries move away from gas, oil and coal, fuels that release greenhouse gases and heat the planet
September 21, 2024
Countries have a chance to use this week's U.N. meetings in New York to resolve big differences over boosting the world's annual goal for climate finance,
September 21, 2024
Tourists are rushing to see glaciers before they disappear. The trips are turning deadly.
September 21, 2024
A team of Brazilian Greenpeace environmental activists on Friday placed a protect banner on a sandbank that has emerged in the middle of one of the major rivers of the
September 20, 2024
Authorities say a rare polar bear spotted in Iceland was shot by police after being considered a threat
September 20, 2024
The Republican-controlled House approved a resolution Friday that would overturn a new Biden administration rule on automobile emissions that Republicans say would force Americans to buy unaffordable electric vehicles they don’t want
September 20, 2024
Zoo Atlanta bids farewell to pandas after 25 years
September 20, 2024
Japan and China said Friday they have reached a deal toward resolving their disputes over the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea and Beijing’s ban on Japanese seafood
September 20, 2024
The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant says it plans to restart the reactor under a 20-year agreement that calls for tech giant Microsoft to buy the power to supply its data centers
September 20, 2024
Constellation Energy and Microsoft have signed a power deal to help resurrect a unit of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in
September 20, 2024
Authorities in Ukraine have advised residents in the capital Kyiv to stay indoors as air pollution, partly caused by fires in the region, blanketed the city
September 20, 2024
Global climate finance from multilateral development banks grew by 25% in 2023 to a record $125 billion, according to a report on Friday, with the fastest growth
September 20, 2024
Scientists looked deep beneath the Doomsday Glacier. What they found spells potential disaster for the planet
September 20, 2024
As torrential rains sweep through Central and West Africa, floods have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands across the region
September 20, 2024
China and Japan reached a consensus in August on the discharge of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday, bringing to an end
September 20, 2024
Brazilian coffee farmers are grappling with above-average temperatures as the country, the world’s largest coffee producer, faces its worst drought in more than seven decades
September 20, 2024
Six years after a teenage Greta Thunberg walked out of school in a solitary climate protest outside of the Swedish parliament, young people around the world staged fresh marches and said their protests are not being sufficiently acted upon
September 20, 2024
China and Japan reached an agreement over the discharge of wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, the two governments said on
September 19, 2024
The carcass of a baby dolphin lay on the sand bank left exposed by the receding waters in an Amazon lake that has been drying up in the worst drought on record.
September 19, 2024
The World Bank Group said on Thursday it delivered a record $42.6 billion in climate finance during fiscal 2024, a 10% increase over the $38.6 billion the prior year and close to
September 19, 2024
A fire that burned for four days after a pipeline explosion in the Houston suburbs burned out Thursday after the once-towering blaze put hundreds of nearby homes under evacuation orders
September 19, 2024
The Biden administration on Thursday published a key environmental report for ioneer's Rhyolite Ridge lithium mine in Nevada, the last step needed before approving what
September 19, 2024
Research finds that extensive feeding by invasive insects can cause trees to produce defense compounds, to the detriment of valued native insects.
September 19, 2024
European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen has pledged billions of euros in aid for Central European countries that suffered enormous damage to infrastructure and housing during the massive flooding that has claimed 24 lives so far in the region
September 19, 2024
Alphabet unit Google has agreed for the first time ever to purchase nature-based carbon removal credits from a Brazilian startup, its first engagement with
September 19, 2024
Canada's carbon emissions declined slightly in 2023 from the previous year but need to fall much faster to meet Ottawa's 2030 climate target, the Canadian Climate Institute think-tank said
September 19, 2024
A storm system that has wreaked havoc across central Europe brought devastating floods to the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna on Thursday for the second year in a row,
September 19, 2024
When a wildfire tore down a hillside towards Athens last month, its southernmost flank halted in a treeless area burned by fire two years before.
September 19, 2024
Russia's vast Krasnoyarsk region declared a state of emergency on Thursday due to heavy rains killing winter crops during sprouting time, bringing the total number of Siberian grain-
September 19, 2024
Weak demand for green products is curbing needed investment of up to $700 billion in low-carbon projects in heavy-emitting industries such as aluminium, steel and cement, an
September 19, 2024
NYC hosting 1st ever National Urban Rat Summit to strategize in war on rats
September 18, 2024
Climate change and conflict risk overshadowing efforts to improve people's health, when in reality the issues overlap, Peter Sands, head of the Global Fund to
September 18, 2024
Scientists have moved about 300 endangered sea corals from South Florida to the Texas Gulf Coast for research and restoration
September 18, 2024
Wildfires around Los Angeles have burned rapidly in the past week after vegetation growth and record heat blamed on climate change, and Southern California blazes could get
September 18, 2024
A Connecticut aquarium where three beluga whales have died from illnesses since 2021 has agreed to settle a federal investigation that found alleged animal care and water quality violations
September 18, 2024
The Biden administration is moving to clarify how homeowners and businesses can receive lucrative tax credits for installing electric vehicle chargers
September 18, 2024
Outer Banks homes on brink of collapse as erosion, king tides worsen
September 18, 2024
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in three regions affected by devastating forest fires that have burned through swathes of
September 18, 2024
Teams are building man-made beaver dams to restore habitat at Colorado's Soda Creek
September 18, 2024
‘Can we grow coffee in Florida successfully?’: Researchers set to harvest beans from plants in Redlands
September 18, 2024
Climate technology firm AIR COMPANY said it has secured backing from aviation fuel supplier Avfuel in its latest funding round as it looks to convert carbon dioxide
September 18, 2024
Soldiers and residents in southwestern Poland are laying sandbags near swollen rivers around the city of Wroclaw to protect homes and businesses after days of flooding across Central Europe
September 18, 2024
Nigeria's hydrological services agency has warned of potential flooding in 11 states after neighbouring Cameroon said it was starting to release water from one of its largest dams
September 18, 2024
Facebook owner Meta agreed to buy up to 3.9 million carbon offset credits from Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual's forestry arm through 2038, the companies said on Wednesday
September 18, 2024
The European Union's head office is warning that devastating floods through much of Central Europe and deadly wildfires in Portugal are joint proof of a “climate breakdown” that will become the norm unless drastic action is taken
September 18, 2024
Austria on Wednesday announced a package of measures in response to severe flooding across the country, including a tripling of
September 18, 2024
Conditions in the Pacific Ocean have become more La Nina-like in recent weeks, but if the weather pattern does form, it is likely to be weak and short-lived, Australia's weather
September 18, 2024
The worst drought on record has lowered the water level of the rivers in the Amazon basin to historic lows, in some cases drying up
September 18, 2024
Diving lizard’s built-in ‘scuba tank’ allows it to breathe underwater, scientists say
September 17, 2024
Federal officials have identified more than 50 square miles of government-owned property across the U.S. as having great potential for renewable energy projects
September 17, 2024
A photograph by a naturalist captured a seemingly bewildered seal in the mouth of a humpback whale after the giant marine mammal unintentionally gulped it
September 17, 2024
The winner of the Florida Python Challenge removed 20 Burmese pythons from the Everglades
September 17, 2024
For the third year in a row, Louisiana is constructing an underwater levee in the Mississippi River to slow an influx of salt water from the Gulf of Mexico
September 17, 2024
One of the world’s most active volcanoes is erupting again in a remote part of a Hawaii national park
September 17, 2024
Google says it will halt plans to develop a major $200 million data center in Chile to address environmental concerns
September 17, 2024
Oakland Unified debuts all-electric fleet of school buses; 1st in the nation
September 17, 2024
Zimbabwe and Namibia plan to slaughter hundreds of wild elephants and other animals to feed hunger-stricken residents amid severe drought conditions in the southern African countries
September 17, 2024
A partial eclipse took a ‘bite’ out of the harvest supermoon. See the stunning images
September 17, 2024
On an island off Africa where one of the local languages has no established words for climate change, a researcher discovers lessons for everyone in discussing climate change.
September 17, 2024
In Nigeria and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, many households have limited access to nutrient-rich foods due to rising costs and the impact of climate change on agriculture and food systems
September 17, 2024
Officials say protected green and loggerhead turtles are making a big comeback on the beaches of two British military bases in Cyprus, with the number of nests surpassing last year’s record count by nearly 25%
September 17, 2024
Five thousand firefighters are struggling to contain multiple wildfires raging across northern Portugal that are blamed for causing at least six deaths and forcing an unknown number of residents to flee their homes
September 17, 2024
U.S. solar industry jobs rose 6% last year to nearly 280,000, their highest level ever, according to an annual study known as the National Solar Jobs Census published on Monday by the
September 17, 2024
Volunteers and emergency workers raced to secure river banks in Poland's historic city of
September 17, 2024
Stefan Ivanov, a 52-year-old banker from Bulgaria, and his son Maxim, 21, celebrated their birthdays in August rowing across the Arctic Ocean with his son to appeal for protection of
September 17, 2024
Less than two months ahead of the COP29 United Nations Climate Summit, the Azerbaijani leadership laid out its plans on Tuesday for what it hoped to achieve, as
September 17, 2024
The world's ozone layer is on "the road to long-term recovery" despite a destructive volcanic eruption in the South Pacific, the World Meteorological Organization said on Tuesday
September 17, 2024
Members of an Arizona tribe urged a federal judge at a daylong hearing in Phoenix to extend a temporary ban on exploratory drilling for a lithium project near lands they have used for religious and cultural ceremonies for centuries
September 17, 2024
California firm produces 3D-printed tiny homes using waste plastic
September 16, 2024
Residents still suffering from impacts of Hurricane Francine days later
September 16, 2024
Peruvian Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzen on Monday called on farming communities to stop burning grasslands in Andean and Amazonian areas that have sparked deadly wildfires, killing
September 16, 2024
Firefighters have battled flames spreading through a national park in Brazil in the latest wildfire in the country which is experiencing an historic drought
September 16, 2024
NOAA confirms investigation into RFK Jr. over dead whale carcass
September 16, 2024
Zimbabwe to cull 200 elephants to feed citizens left hungry by drought
September 16, 2024
Officials say a massive pipeline fire that has burned for hours near Houston began after vehicle struck an above-ground valve after driving through a fence
September 16, 2024
Microplastics found in nose tissue at base of brain, study says
September 16, 2024
A once-in-1,000-year rainfall event from an unnamed storm floods homes and forces rescues in North Carolina
September 16, 2024
Daimler Truck, one of the world's biggest commercial vehicle makers, aims for half of its European sales to come from electric trucks
September 16, 2024
Which is riskier for your health: a few days of very bad PM₂.₅ exposure or many more days of slightly bad exposure? Researchers developed new metrics to provide better answers.
September 16, 2024
France's second largest listed bank Credit Agricole has decided to replace precious metals with trading in the regulated carbon markets starting from 2025, three
September 16, 2024
A Greek-flagged oil tanker ablaze for weeks after attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has been “successfully towed to a safe area without any oil spill.”
September 16, 2024
A polluting, coal-fired power plant found the key to solving America’s biggest clean energy challenge
September 16, 2024
Severe droughts across Brazil's Amazon rainforest region are drastically altering residents' lives as mobility is hampered by record-low levels on upper stretches of the
September 15, 2024
The hoiho or yellow-eyed penguin won New Zealand's annual Bird of the Year vote, after a fierce contest without the foreign interference and controversies that have upset the country's avian elections before
September 15, 2024
California’s earliest snow advisory in nearly 20 years could also bring month’s worth of rain
September 15, 2024
Heavy rains have caused severe flooding in Central Europe and the death toll has risen
September 15, 2024
Cooler weather is helping firefighters make progress against three Southern California wildfires
September 14, 2024
Brazil has almost squashed the illegal gold rush that led thousands of wildcat miners into the Yanomami reservation in the Amazon
September 14, 2024
The National Hurricane Center says Storm Ileana has weakened to a tropical depression
September 14, 2024
Climate protesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves
September 14, 2024
The Biden administration has asked an appeals court to revive a Trump-era rule that lifted remaining Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in the U.S. If successful, the move would put the predators under states’ oversight and would allow hunting in the Great Lakes region, which had been suspended by a court order
September 13, 2024
An unusual shift in the weather has turned the Sahara green
September 13, 2024
Hurricane Francine suddenly dropped an incredible amount of rain on New Orleans
September 13, 2024
Investigators reviewing the emergency response to last year’s devastating wildfire on Maui say in a new report they found no evidence Hawaii officials made preparations for it, despite days of warnings that “critical fire weather” was about to arrive
September 13, 2024
Jane Goodall inspires next generation of conservationists in Tampa Bay
September 13, 2024
An Italian appeals court overturned a 2021 ruling convicting 37 people and three firms for deadly pollution linked to the former Ilva steelworks on Friday and ordered a retrial, ANSA
September 13, 2024
Around 36,000 schools in the U.S. are in need of updated heating and cooling systems, according to the Government Accountability Office
September 13, 2024
With 100 hours aboard Amtrak trains, students learn about sustainable travel and destination tourism, using cities along the routes as living laboratories.
September 13, 2024
Colorado has spectacular scenery, but it comes with wild animals, and they sometimes wander into town. A ballot measure that would ban hunting wild cats is the latest test of public views on hunting.
September 13, 2024
There’s a widespread argument that ‘poachers’ are responsible for the scarcity of wild ginseng. But a scholar who has interviewed diggers explains that most of them are good stewards.
September 13, 2024
Scientists say they figured out what caused a massive nine-day vibration that offers new warnings about human-linked climate change. CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir explains.
September 13, 2024
A landslide triggered a 650-foot mega-tsunami in Greenland. Then came something inexplicable
September 13, 2024
The death toll in the aftermath of a typhoon in Vietnam has climbed to 233 as rescue workers recover more bodies from areas hit by landslides and flash floods
September 13, 2024
Pope Francis left Singapore for Rome on Friday, after a demanding trip across Southeast Asia and Oceania in which he urged action on climate
September 13, 2024
Residents of the Carrollton neighborhood in New Orleans are among the thousands of utility customers in the city who remain without power after Hurricane Francine passed through
September 13, 2024
Indonesia and Vietnam signed multibillion-dollar energy transition deals in 2022 that were heralded as drastic shifts in financing that would enable the coal-dependent countries to pivot to cleaner energy
September 13, 2024
As tropical storm Bebinca barrels towards waters off northern Taiwan gathering strength into a possible typhoon, weather forecasters in Taipei are using a new and so
September 13, 2024
South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil's Amazon rainforest through the world's largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia,
September 12, 2024
Maria Lettini already knew about the backlash going on in the United States against ESG investing, which takes the environment, social issues and corporate governance into account, when she took over as chief executive of US SIF last year
September 12, 2024
An explosive California wildfire looked like a bomb went off from space – here’s what’s happening
September 12, 2024
Atlanta’s subway cars are now home to endangered sea turtles and coral reefs
September 12, 2024
People in Canada and northern U.S. cities including Seattle and Minneapolis may see faint auroras due to moderate solar storms
September 12, 2024
Over 250,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana were without power on Thursday after Hurricane Francine barreled onto the state's Gulf Coast, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
September 12, 2024
The Ashaninka of the Amonia River, inhabitants of the western Amazon, reclaimed their land from cattle ranchers more than 30 years ago
September 12, 2024
The Ashaninka of the Amonia River, inhabitants of the western Amazon, reclaimed their land from cattle ranchers 30 years ago
September 12, 2024
Brazilian miner Vale expects that by 2030 some 10% of its iron ore output will come from the reuse of mine waste known as tailings, an executive
September 12, 2024
It’s pretty simple — leave no trace
September 12, 2024
A pair of rare Amur tiger cubs are making their public debut at the Minnesota Zoo, raising hopes for preserving an endangered species that’s native to far eastern Russia and northern China
September 12, 2024
In the lowland Bolivian region of Santa Cruz, being gripped by some of its worst wildfires on record, nurse Raúl Gutiérrez
September 11, 2024
When asked about climate change in the presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris said, “young people of America care deeply about this issue,” and then pointed out that that the U.S. has increased domestic production of oil to historic highs
September 11, 2024
Man hopes to plant 1 million mangroves to combat coastal threats, climate change impacts
September 11, 2024
Extreme weather is again striking multiple places around the world, including wildfires in California, a hurricane that threatens Louisiana, drought and wildfires in the Amazon and flooding in Nigeria
September 11, 2024
Three Southern California wildfires torched dozens of mountain homes, tore through a ski resort and forced thousands to evacuate in
September 11, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is pledging to finish paving a roadway in the heart of the Amazon that experts and some in his own government say could worsen deforestation
September 11, 2024
Harris and Trump kept talking about pumping more oil. There’s a problem with that
September 11, 2024
The EU is exaggerating spending on climate-friendly projects, potentially by billions of euros, the bloc's auditors said on Wednesday, citing examples of countries
September 11, 2024
Floods gush through Nigerian zoo, sweeping snakes and crocodiles into neighborhoods
September 11, 2024
Virginia Beach residents disgusted by dead fish and lack of answers
September 11, 2024
A proposed chemical recycling plant in western Michigan may provide a handful of jobs but little environmental benefit.
September 11, 2024
Fast population growth has left more people in flood-prone areas of Gulf Coast communities, including Houston and New Orleans. Often, those residents at most risk are the most socially vulnerable.
September 11, 2024
Prices of emissions-free trucks need to fall by as much as half to make them an affordable alternative to diesel models, a study by consultancy firm McKinsey published on
September 11, 2024
Scientists agree that preserving the Amazon rainforest is vital to combating global warming, but new data on Wednesday indicate huge swathes of the jungle that are
September 11, 2024
Zara will offer its service for selling, repairing or donating secondhand clothes in the United States by the end of October as a way of prolonging their life cycle and reducing
September 11, 2024
Flying over the desert landscape of southeastern New Mexico in a four-seat helicopter, Stephen Aldridge could count around a dozen man-made lagoons
September 11, 2024
A ‘particularly dangerous situation’ develops as wildfires rage in the West
September 11, 2024
Devastating wildfires are sweeping across Southern California hillsides
September 11, 2024
Typhoon Yagi caused severe damage to many factories and flooded warehouses in northern Vietnam's export-oriented industrial hubs,
September 11, 2024
Vietnam's capital of Hanoi evacuated thousands of people living near the swollen Red River as its waters rose to a 20-year high, flooding streets
September 11, 2024
Global tech giants halved their business flight emissions in 2023 compared to 2019, but companies like Apple and Google's parent Alphabet are falling behind, risking a return to pre-
September 10, 2024
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says flaws in a Vermont program are preventing the state from adequately controlling phosphorus discharges from certain farms, which contribute to severe water quality problems in Lake Champlain and other bodies of water
September 10, 2024
A major river in the Brazilian metropolis Sao Paulo is suddenly emerald green and clear skies have turned from blue to grey
September 10, 2024
Exxon CEO Darren Woods on Tuesday had warning words for activist shareholders thinking to emulate those who filed a climate-related
September 10, 2024
Mysterious pinecone formation appears in Waltham woods
September 10, 2024
'Crazy to see that much water': Orlando residents want their voices heard after severe flooding
September 10, 2024
Change has broken, remade and continues to reshape the remote Canadian town of Churchill on the shore of Hudson Bay
September 10, 2024
Decades-long environmental studies can reveal trends caused by climate change better than projects that last only a year or two.
September 10, 2024
The Southern Ocean’s krill-rich waters attract multiple species of filter-feeding whales – and, increasingly, fishing boats.
September 10, 2024
Hurricane Francine will continue to strengthen on its collision course with Louisiana
September 10, 2024
Francine has become a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico as it bears down on the Louisiana coast
September 10, 2024
Apocalyptic-looking plumes of smoke filled skies east of Los Angeles as firefighters battled three major wildfires that erupted amid a blistering heat wave
September 10, 2024
Colorado wildlife officials have captured and plan to relocate five members of the first pack of wolves to form under the state’s ambitious wolf reintroduction program
September 09, 2024
Colombia, host nation for this year's United Nations COP16 biodiversity conference, was the deadliest country for environmentalists and land rights defenders in
September 09, 2024
National Park calls out ‘world changing’ impact of dropped Cheetos bag
September 09, 2024
Carlsbad Caverns National Park officials say a recent park visitor who dropped a bag of Cheetos had a “huge impact” on the cave’s ecosystem.
September 09, 2024
Very few people who live near the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment opted out of a $600 million class action settlement despite reservations about whether the deal offers enough
September 09, 2024
A powerful drought in Brazil’s Pantanal region has led to the lowest water levels on the Paraguay River in more than a century, disrupting commerce on the major waterway, creating hazards for local transport and offering a grim warning for other parts of the world
September 09, 2024
Brazil is enduring its worst drought since nationwide measurements began over seven decades ago, with 59% of the country under stress — an area roughly half the size of the U.S. Major Amazon basin rivers are registering historic lows, and uncontrolled manmade wildfires have ravaged protected areas and spread smoke over a vast expanse, plummeting air quality
September 09, 2024
The Biden administration on Monday said it had approved a major transmission line in Nevada that will run hundreds of miles along the state's border with California and be able to provide
September 09, 2024
Madrid bans rental e-scooters, saying operators didn’t meet requirements
September 09, 2024
Tropical Storm Francine has strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico and is forecast to make landfall as a hurricane at mid-week in Louisiana
September 09, 2024
Thousands of people have been evacuated from the path of a scorching wildfire in the foothills of a national forest east of Los Angeles as the blaze threatens some 36,000 structures
September 09, 2024
‘Hell no, we’re not leaving’: A California community defies evacuation warning as ancient landslide rips their homes apart
September 09, 2024
A beluga whale discovered with a harness strapped around its neck in Norwegian waters five years ago - and found dead on Aug. 31 - had a stick stuck in its mouth and its death was not
September 09, 2024
Trump aggressively supported fossil fuels. The Biden-Harris administration focused on replacing them with clean energy. Yet, data show the US oil and gas industries still thrived under both.
September 09, 2024
China is willing to work with Norway to promote "friendly" cooperation including on green energy, President Xi Jinping told visiting Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere in
September 09, 2024
South America's Paraguay River, a key thoroughfare for grains, has hit a record low in Paraguay's capital Asuncion, with water levels
September 09, 2024
26% of homeowners say they are financially unprepared for extreme weather events, new survey finds
September 09, 2024
Indonesia has agreed to set a moratorium on the construction of hotels, villas and nightclubs in some areas on the tourist resort island of Bali, as it grapples with the over-
September 09, 2024
‘Someone is going to get hurt or killed’: 14 people arrested for illegal hiking in Hawaii
September 09, 2024
The Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation have long grappled with contaminants in the soil and water
September 09, 2024
The remote Duck Valley reservation that straddles Nevada and Idaho has battled toxic contaminants on its land for decades
September 09, 2024
Water levels in the rivers that run through the vast Amazon rainforest have been falling, after a record drought followed by less rain, presenting
September 08, 2024
The controversial plan to turn a desert green
September 08, 2024
Scores of schools across the U.S. are carpeted in asphalt with no shade
September 08, 2024
Residents flee as California and Nevada wildfires get dangerously close and forecasters warn of record heat
September 08, 2024
A year after a deadly earthquake struck Morocco's High Atlas mountains, reconstruction efforts are slowly moving forward
September 08, 2024
Southern California wildfire burns so intensely that it creates its own weather as it spreads, forcing evacuations
September 08, 2024
More than 35,000 structures are being threatened by a wildfire in the foothills of a national forest east of Los Angeles
September 07, 2024
Bolivia declared a national emergency due to raging forest fires the country's defense ministry announced on Saturday.
September 07, 2024
Evacuations have been ordered as a wildfire burns in the foothills of a national forest east of Los Angeles
September 07, 2024
Landslides are destroying multimillion-dollar homes in California, and they’re getting worse
September 07, 2024
Mining raw materials, like nickel, for batteries harms the environment, and new mines are very difficult to get approved, so the search is on to recycle metals that have already come out of the earth
September 07, 2024
Europe's autos industry could face fines of 15 billion euros ($17.4 billion) for carbon emissions due to slowing demand for electric vehicles, Renault CEO Luca de Meo said on
September 07, 2024
The debris and ash that remained after a deadly wildfire last year decimated a historic Maui town now sits in a temporary dump site
September 07, 2024
A wave of odd-colored lobsters has showed up in fishers' traps, supermarket seafood tanks and scientists’ laboratories over the last year
September 07, 2024
Death Valley National Park has its hottest summer on record
September 06, 2024
European Union countries are considering delaying the introduction of EU-wide taxes on polluting aviation fuels for 20 years, as they seek a breakthrough on tax
September 06, 2024
This hurricane season is confounding experts and defying forecasts. What the heck is going on?
September 06, 2024
French nuclear fuel specialist Orano could begin enriching uranium at a new plant in the United States in the early 2030s, an executive said on Friday, boosting the company's share
September 06, 2024
A pregnant shark was tagged and monitored for 5 months, then disappeared. Scientists now know its fate
September 06, 2024
There's an army taking to Mexico City's streets — the Tree Army
September 06, 2024
Water reserves at the artificial Lake Mornos in central Greece have hit their lowest level in 16 years as a drought induced by climate change rampages across much of southern Europe this summer
September 06, 2024
Sweden’s strong foraging culture could help determine how much radioactive fallout remains in the Scandinavian country, 38 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion
September 06, 2024
China and the United States still have "some differences" on issues such as climate finance but have made progress in narrowing them during talks this week, U.S. climate envoy John
September 06, 2024
Up to 50% of all vehicles bought in Pakistan by 2030 will be electrified in some form in line with global targets, BYD Pakistan, a partnership between China's BYD
September 06, 2024
The planet endures its hottest summer on record — for the second straight year
September 06, 2024
The world is emerging from its warmest northern hemisphere summer since records began, the European Union's climate change monitoring service said on Friday, as
September 06, 2024
Trump said his new WH chief of staff likes to ‘stay in the back.’ Randi Kaye explains why he is right
Iranian American human rights activists expresses defiance over Iranian plots to kill her and Trump
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