In Texas, oil and gas producer Occidental Petroleum is constructing a giant facility to suck 500,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere annually to keep it
July 02, 2024
The Biden administration announced a proposal on Thursday which would require water systems across the U.S. to replace lead pipes within the next ten years, an issue which has been
July 02, 2024
There's an unprecedented deadlock at this year's COP28 U.N. climate summit over who will host next year's event.
July 02, 2024
After being told by COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber to not "let me down", the almost 200 nations at the U.N. climate summit will be wrestling on Monday with the thorniest issue -
July 02, 2024
Oil producer group OPEC held an event on the sidelines of the COP28 negotiations in Dubai on Sunday aimed at convincing young people to support fossil fuels,
July 02, 2024
A growing list of global companies are setting a price or charging themselves for each metric ton of their
July 02, 2024
The COP28 Presidency released a proposed text of a final climate deal on Wednesday that would, for the first time, push nations
July 02, 2024
The COP 28 climate deal reached with huge fanfare this week in Dubai is a stab in the back for the nations most affected by global warming and won't stop temperatures rising
July 02, 2024
California regulators on Tuesday cleared the way for widespread use of advanced filtration and treatment facilities designed to convert sewage waste into pure
July 02, 2024
Coastal communities in California faced another day of towering waves and possible flooding on Saturday as officials issued evacuation orders in some areas and warned residents to stay off
July 02, 2024
The world's largest cruise ship is set for its maiden voyage on Saturday, but environmental groups are concerned that the liquefied natural gas-powered vessel
July 02, 2024
California braced for a pair of approaching Pacific storms expected to drench much of the state in heavy rains that could trigger widespread flooding while also
July 02, 2024
European Union policymakers hope to agree new rules on Tuesday to promote domestic production of equipment for solar and wind power, fuel cells and other
July 02, 2024
After a strong El Nino, global weather is poised to transition to La Nina in the second half of 2024, a pattern typically bringing
July 02, 2024
First responders and volunteers from Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday sought to contain an oil spill detected last week in the Caribbean country's waters and clean areas of Tobago island's
July 02, 2024
The world likely notched its warmest February on record, as spring-like conditions caused flowers to bloom early from Japan to Mexico, left ski slopes bald of snow in Europe
July 02, 2024
Beneath the world's largest open-pit copper mine in Chile lies a tunnel complex filled with dust so dense that machines frequently
July 02, 2024
A new satellite backed by Alphabet Inc's Google and the Environmental Defense Fund group will launch from California on Monday with a mission to pinpoint
July 02, 2024
Wall Street's top regulatory body meets on Wednesday to vote on whether to adopt rules that would force public companies to disclose certain climate-related risks, in first-
July 02, 2024
Electric vehicle maker Polestar Australia quit Australia's major automotive lobby on Friday, a day after Tesla did the same, in protest over the
July 02, 2024
Summit Carbon Solutions, which is trying to build the biggest carbon dioxide capture pipeline in the United States to transport and bury greenhouse gases, has repeatedly
July 02, 2024
Britain's latest climate action plan is unlawful because ministers were not told of the risk that key policies could not be delivered, London's High Court ruled on
July 02, 2024
The Indonesian government will permanently relocate almost 10,000 residents after a series of explosive eruptions of the Ruang volcano has raised concerns about the dangers of
July 02, 2024
The outlook for the soybean harvest in Rio Grande do Sul, which was on track to become the second largest producer in Brazil behind Mato Grosso
July 02, 2024
The number of people killed by flooding and other impacts of the heavy rains battering Kenya has risen to 228, the interior ministry said on Sunday.
July 02, 2024
Three of the biggest global health funders have joined forces for the first time in a $300 million partnership aimed at tackling the linked impacts of climate
July 02, 2024
Two climate protesters aged 82 and 85 attempted to smash the reinforced case holding an original
July 02, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng said on Friday new U.S. tariffs on Chinese EVs are detrimental to achieving carbon neutrality and green energy transition.
July 02, 2024
Cloud cover and rain showers over the next few days are set to help crews battling a large wildfire near the Canadian oil sands city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, local authorities said on
July 02, 2024
Stranded for nearly three weeks by record flooding in southern Brazil, one tiny Indigenous community is determined not to evacuate what they consider
July 02, 2024
Strong gales and heavy rain triggered by the first major cyclone of the year lashed the coastlines of
July 02, 2024
Papua New Guinea ordered thousands of residents to evacuate from the path of a still-active landslide on Tuesday after parts of a mountain collapsed
July 02, 2024
More than 231,000 homes and businesses in the U.S. states of Texas, Louisiana and California were still without power on Friday after a series of storms battered the region over the past
July 02, 2024
As Jose Cleiton and Brandao Amilton ride their horses into the vastness of the Pantanal grassy wetlands of Brazil, a wall of smoke towers from the
July 02, 2024
New Zealand and China on Thursday signed agreements on trade and climate change, with human rights also on the agenda, during a trip by Premier Li
July 02, 2024
An oil spill off southern Singapore has spread to other areas of the island's coast and is threatening a marine reserve, government agencies said, adding that authorities were
July 02, 2024
Global supply chains for rare earths are realigning to diversify away from top producer China to make permanent magnets used in products from electric vehicles to wind turbines
July 02, 2024
Two people have died in wildfires in southern New Mexico that have burned around 500 homes and triggered the evacuation of about 8,000 residents from the mountain resort community of
July 02, 2024
The ongoing strike at Brazil's environmental agency Ibama is impacting the analysis of Petrobras' request to drill a well in the Equatorial Margin, an
July 02, 2024
The National Black Farmers Association is calling on Tractor Supply’s president and CEO to step down, days after the rural retailer announced that it would drop most of its corporate diversity and climate advocacy efforts
July 02, 2024
Hurricane season is upon us, and emergency management officials are urging residents to stay prepared
July 02, 2024
The Canadian Atlantic province of Newfoundland and Labrador on Thursday imposed a partial fire ban after an out-of-control blaze forced the evacuation of a town
July 02, 2024
Hannah, a 13-year-old white rhinoceros, has given hope to a Chilean zoo and conservationists worldwide, delivering a newborn calf in a rare zoo birth for the almost endangered species
July 02, 2024
1,200 gallons of oil removed from Flint River since spill last week
July 02, 2024
Climate change is driving dangerous heat waves across the Northern Hemisphere this week and will continue to deliver dangerous weather for decades to
July 02, 2024
Oil companies around the world last year burned off the most natural gas in five years while also increasing the intensity of the highly polluting practice, a World Bank report found on
July 02, 2024
Residents of the gleaming apartment buildings built atop sand dunes that dot Chile's Pacific coast are expressing mounting concerns for their
July 02, 2024
Global fossil fuel consumption and energy emissions hit all-time highs in 2023, even as fossil fuels' share of the global energy mix decreased slightly on the year,
July 02, 2024
Swaths of California are sweltering and things are only expected to get worse during the Fourth of July holiday week for parts of the United States with nearly 90 million people under heat alerts
July 02, 2024
Tree removal accidentally unearths centuries-old artifacts at North Carolina church
July 02, 2024
Several shark species are facing extinction. Here’s how you can help
July 02, 2024
The World Bank and other top development banks got a double boost on Tuesday as Fitch said debt payment freezes for climate-disaster hit countries would not hit the
July 02, 2024
Google, which has an ambitious plan to address climate change with cleaner operations, came nowhere close to its goals last year, according to the company’s annual Environmental Report Tuesday
July 02, 2024
Azerbaijan, host of this year's United Nations COP29 climate summit, will upgrade its national emissions-cutting target ahead of the November event, a senior
July 02, 2024
Environmental protesters sprayed paint on Britain's Stonehenge on Wednesday, with orange marks covering some of the stones of the prehistoric megalithic structure on the eve of the
July 02, 2024
The United States has asked the European Union to delay its upcoming ban on imports of soy, wood and other commodities linked to deforestation, a letter seen by
July 02, 2024
Outdoor workers concerned over new Florida law banning heat protections
July 02, 2024
Mississippi River crests in Red Wing as flooding impacts businesses
July 02, 2024
Glaciers in the Juneau Icefield in southeastern Alaska are melting at a faster rate than previously thought and may reach an irreversible tipping point sooner than expected,
July 02, 2024
A new study says the melting of Alaska’s Juneau icefield, home to more than 1,000 glaciers, is accelerating
July 02, 2024
A species of lynx found in remote areas of Spain and Portugal has rebounded from near extinction, with its adult population growing more than tenfold since the start
July 02, 2024
Telltale signs of ‘sand volcanoes’ reveal an ancient earthquake rerouted the Ganges, scientists say
July 02, 2024
Beryl’s strength and rapid intensification set records, raising alarms about what’s already expected to be a very active Atlantic hurricane season, as a meteorologist explains.
July 02, 2024
Sales of new battery-electric cars in the European Union dropped 12% in May from a year earlier, led by a 30% plunge in Germany, data from
July 02, 2024
Indonesia's Awyu tribe of the Papua region has filed a case to the Supreme Court seeking to cancel permits for palm oil concessions on thousands of hectares
July 02, 2024
Tracking destructive and deadly tornadoes in the US, in maps and charts
July 02, 2024
Hurricane Beryl is roaring across the Caribbean Sea as a monstrous Category 5 storm on a path toward Jamaica and the Cayman Islands
July 02, 2024
Hurricane Beryl, which has strengthened to a Category 5 storm, is setting the tone for a
July 02, 2024
The U.N. weather agency says it has confirmed that Tropical Cyclone Freddy, a deadly Indian Ocean storm that lashed eastern Africa last year, was the longest-lasting cyclone ever recorded — at 36 days
July 02, 2024
The head of Brazil's environmental agency said on Wednesday that he expects a decision soon on state-owned oil company Petrobras' request to conduct exploratory
July 02, 2024
Australia's main opposition party wants a sensible debate about nuclear power as it commits to build seven plants to replace coal generation if it
July 02, 2024
India's annual monsoon rains covered the entire country on Tuesday, six days ahead of the usual time of arrival, the state-run weather department said, although rain totals are
July 02, 2024
Canada will ban open-net salmon farms off the coast of British Columbia by the middle of 2029 in order to help protect dwindling wild Pacific salmon populations, the federal
July 02, 2024
With extreme heat gripping much of the Northern Hemisphere this week, authorities and public health experts have issued heat warnings to help
July 02, 2024
New Zealand on Tuesday signed trade deals with Switzerland, Costa Rica and Iceland to remove tariffs on hundreds of environmental products, in a move Wellington says will address
July 02, 2024
The already-historic Hurricane Beryl became Cat 5 overnight. It's the earliest ever of that strength in the Atlantic.
July 02, 2024
For months, Philip Matthias tried to convince his father to install solar panels on their company's roof in the eastern German state of Thuringia, aiming to cut
July 02, 2024
A Cambodian court handed jail terms of up to eight years to 10 activists of environmental group Mother Nature, on charges of plotting against the government and insulting the
July 02, 2024
When floods hit the eastern Australian town of Lismore two years ago, Adam Bailey lost all the historic collections from his antique store,
July 01, 2024
Most of 125 dolphins stranded off Cape Cod back in deep water
July 01, 2024
100 people rescued by National Guard from flash flooding
July 01, 2024
Hurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in right now and the kind of season ahead
July 01, 2024
Torrential rain and landslides in China's coastal provinces of Guangdong and Fujian have killed nine people and left 17 missing, state media and local authorities said on Monday.
July 01, 2024
The European Commission has drafted plans to initially exempt long-haul flights from rules on monitoring their non-CO2 emissions after
July 01, 2024
The Arctic could face more severe environmental impacts from oil spills if shippers switch to very-low sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO) following new, restrictive fuel
July 01, 2024
How a group of butterflies flew 2,600 miles across the Atlantic Ocean without stopping
July 01, 2024
Under the light of a moon partially obscured by cloud, the eyes of a dozen deer glow uncannily in the dark on South Korea's island of Anma.
July 01, 2024
U.S. cities are breaking decades-old temperature records this week as a heat wave stretches from central to eastern portions of the country,
July 01, 2024
India is likely to receive above-average rainfall in July after receiving 11% below average in June, the weather department said on Monday, keeping alive the
July 01, 2024
Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual's forestry arm said on Tuesday it agreed to sell 8 million carbon offset credits to Microsoft, the largest-ever sale of such credits.
July 01, 2024
The top U.S. oil and corn industry lobby groups said on Tuesday they were suing President Joe Biden's administration over its plans to slash planet-warming tailpipe emissions from cars and
July 01, 2024
Firefighters battled wildfires that broke out on the eastern Aegean islands of Chios and Kos and injured five people, as Greece’s prime minister warned of a dangerous summer ahead
July 01, 2024
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday his country faced a dangerous summer for wildfires, with a prolonged drought and unusually strong winds contributing to
July 01, 2024
Delhi suffers extreme weather whiplash as heat waves give way to record rain and deadly flash floods
July 01, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration on Tuesday unveiled final rules for new clean energy subsidies in an effort to make jobs and wages in green industries competitive with those in oil
July 01, 2024
The global commercial shipping industry could cut down its carbon emissions by 47 million tonnes per year by deploying artificial intelligence for sea navigation, a study by autonomous
July 01, 2024
Park rangers on Japan's sacred Mount Fuji officially started this year's climbing season about 90 minutes before sunrise on Monday, levying new trail fees
July 01, 2024
Ships sailing through Arctic waters will no longer be able to use or carry heavy bunker fuel oil under a United Nations shipping agency regulation
July 01, 2024
Google said it has taken a stake in Taiwan's New Green Power and could buy up to 300 megawatts of renewable energy from the BlackRock fund-owned
July 01, 2024
Members of a Cambodian conservation group are facing up to 10 years in prison on charges its founder says are politically motivated and part of a wider crackdown on government
July 01, 2024
Evacuation orders in Arizona have been lifted for some residents of northeast Scottsdale who have been out of their homes for days because of a wildfire
June 30, 2024
They thought this rare, tiny flower was extinct since WWI. Now it’s a symbol of hope
June 30, 2024
Greek firefighters were battling two wildfires near Athens on Sunday amid strong winds, just hours after managing to contain blazes in a
June 30, 2024
China's Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday it has allocated 443 million yuan ($61.1 million) for a disaster relief fund to support drought prevention work in seven provinces,
June 30, 2024
Germany's solar power installation rose by 35% year-on-year in the first four months of 2024, boosted by a rise in industrial, commercial and ground-mounted photovoltaics demand,
June 30, 2024
Hurricane Beryl is expected to intensify into a dangerous major storm as it approaches the Caribbean
June 30, 2024
As many as 4 million people in India scratch out a living searching through landfills for anything they can sell
June 30, 2024
East Bay engineer dedicates himself to cleaning up the Bay Area
June 29, 2024
More than 200 firefighters were battling a wildfire northeast of Phoenix that threatened scores of homes and has forced dozens of residents to evacuate
June 29, 2024
The summer doldrums have set in across much of the United States, with heat advisories being issued Saturday from Texas to South Florida
June 29, 2024
Animal rescuers were trying to keep dozens of dolphins away from shallow waters around Cape Cod after 125 of the creatures earlier stranded themselves
June 29, 2024
Brazil’s massive Pantanal wetlands haven't technically entered annual fire season but already the number of blazes reported has broken records and is leading experts to predict this year will be the most devastating in decades
June 29, 2024
In the last 10 days of June, on a frenetic pace of its own making, the Supreme Court has touched a wide swath of American society in decisions on abortion, guns, the environment, health, the opioid crisis, securities fraud and homelessness
June 29, 2024
With temperatures rising across the country and school out for the summer, many families will visit the beach, lake or local swimming pool
June 29, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday urged his government to speed up actions in the Amazon to combat organized crime that has contributed to destruction of the
June 29, 2024
A high-pressure weather system could bring record-breaking temperatures to central and eastern parts of the United States this week, National Weather Service forecasters said
June 29, 2024
Heat waves in Europe are getting more dangerous. Here’s what that means for travelers
June 29, 2024
Beryl has grown into a hurricane in the Atlantic and is forecast to strengthen into a major storm as it nears the Caribbean
June 29, 2024
More than 100 Atlantic white-sided dolphins stranded in muddy location off Cape Cod, Massachusetts
June 29, 2024
Austria's ruling coalition of conservatives and Greens flirted with collapse on Monday after a minister went it alone to tip the balance in the European Union in favour of a nature
June 28, 2024
Fact check: Sea levels are already rising faster per year than Trump claims they might rise over ‘next 497 years’
June 28, 2024
A new tropical system just formed. It poses a rare threat
June 28, 2024
A third of shark species face extinction. Here’s what one man is doing to help
June 28, 2024
Federal rules that impact virtually every aspect of everyday life, from the food we eat and the cars we drive to the air we breathe and homes we live in, could be at risk after a wide-ranging Supreme Court ruling
June 28, 2024
Scores of people in western Serbia's town of Loznica rallied on Friday to protest the contested Rio Tinto lithium project in the Balkan country, fearing its development
June 28, 2024
Tractor Supply says it is ending an array of corporate diversity and climate efforts
June 28, 2024
Lightning fires burn over 20,000 acres
June 28, 2024
Weeks of scarce rainfall in parts of China, coupled with sweltering heat, has brought drought to several provinces, prompting alerts and actions from authorities to
June 28, 2024
With just five months to go before this year's U.N. climate summit, countries cannot agree on the size of a global funding bill to help the developing world fight
June 28, 2024
Fatima Brandao goes looking for her chickens in the backyard amidst a veil of smoke from the spreading fires that are engulfing the world's largest tropical wetland faster
June 28, 2024
Japan, a major coal and liquefied natural gas (LNG) buyer, could be energy-independent by 2060 thanks to expansion of solar and wind power together with storage
June 28, 2024
PJM Interconnection, the biggest U.S. power grid operator said on Friday that it is ready to meet anticipated electricity demand during a predicted heat wave.
June 28, 2024
The CEOs of Canada's big five banks on Thursday reassured members of parliament about their commitment to fighting climate change, but said reducing funding for fossil fuel
June 28, 2024
Nearly a week of torrential rainfall appeared to be winding down in South Florida on Friday after a slow-moving weather system dumped more than two feet (60 cm) of
June 28, 2024
Austria's environment minister, Leonore Gewessler of the Greens, defied her conservative coalition partners on Sunday by pledging to cast Austria's vote in favour of adopting a
June 28, 2024
The next European Commission must do more to help European industry catch up in the green tech race with China and the U.S., said Spain's climate and energy
June 28, 2024
Highly pathogenic avian influenza has spread to a seventh poultry farm near Melbourne, the government of Australia's Victoria state said on Monday.
June 28, 2024
India's monsoon has delivered a fifth less rain than normal so far this season, the weather department said on Monday, in a worrying sign for the vital
June 28, 2024
Serbia's parliament speaker and former prime minister Ana Brnabic on Monday sought a debate and approval in the assembly for a contested Rio Tinto lithium project in the Balkan
June 28, 2024
Executive branch agencies will likely have more difficulty regulating the environment, public health, workplace safety and other issues under a far-reaching decision Friday by the Supreme Court
June 28, 2024
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has directly caused or paved the way to the emission of 175 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, a joint report said
June 28, 2024
Nearly 200 countries will try to agree a new global goal for funding to fight climate change at this year's U.N. COP29 climate summit in November in Baku, Azerbaijan.
June 28, 2024
The Bahamas is to join a growing trend where countries promise better protection of precious ecosystems in return for having their debts reduced
June 28, 2024
The Supreme Court has upended a 40-year-old decision that made it easier for the federal government to regulate the environment, public health, workplace safety and consumer protections
June 28, 2024
Dozens of countries have voiced their support for concluding in the next few weeks World Trade Organization negotiations on cutting harmful fishing subsidies that contribute to
June 28, 2024
The world's climate goal is hanging by a thread and countries need to dig deeper to provide the finance and set the policies
June 28, 2024
A political tilt to the right in Europe and a potential Trump presidency in the U.S. will not derail climate efforts as
June 28, 2024
In the two years since he was elected, Kenya's President William Ruto has wowed global climate activists under the Eiffel Tower, brushed shoulders with global tech
June 28, 2024
Water pollution levels in Paris' River Seine remain much higher than allowed for bathing, data showed on Friday, one month before the Olympics in which the capital's landmark waterway
June 28, 2024
More residents in parts of Arizona’s most populous county asked to evacuate as a wildfire threatens homes
June 28, 2024
The toxic gas ethylene oxide (EtO) is detectable in southeastern Louisiana at levels a thousand times higher than what is considered safe, according to a new study.
June 28, 2024
Dozens of climate activists were arrested after protesting at Citigroup's headquarters in New York on Friday as part of what they called a "Summer of
June 28, 2024
Large areas of federal land in Alaska will be protected from development to conserve fish and wildlife habitats that are important to native communities' way of life, under two measures
June 28, 2024
Researchers in South Africa have injected radioactive material into to the horns of 20 rhinos as part of a research project aimed at reducing poaching
June 28, 2024
The number of days reaching a sizzling 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) in 20 of the world's largest capitals - from Delhi to Jakarta to Buenos Aires - has risen 52%
June 27, 2024
The lower house of the Swiss parliament voted on Wednesday to reject a ruling ordering Switzerland to do more to combat global warming in a move that could encourage
June 27, 2024
The heatwave in Saudi Arabia blamed for the deaths of 1,300 people on the haj pilgrimage this month was made worse by climate change, a team of European scientists
June 27, 2024
A California law that bans drilling new oil wells near places like homes and schools will likely take effect in the coming days
June 27, 2024
Lawyers representing claimants taking legal action over Brazil's worst environmental disaster filed an injunction this week against miners BHP and Vale for "trying to derail" a
June 27, 2024
Federal regulators on Thursday approved a Louisiana liquefied natural gas project that has been a lightning rod for environmental activists and an energy policy litmus test for President
June 27, 2024
About 4,000 years ago, the last of Earth's woolly mammoths died out on a lonely Arctic Ocean island off the coast of Siberia, a melancholy end to one of the world's
June 27, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency won't be able to enforce a key rule limiting air pollution in nearly a dozen states while separate legal challenges proceed around the country
June 27, 2024
The Supreme Court is putting the Environmental Protection Agency’s air pollution-fighting “good neighbor” plan on hold while legal challenges continue
June 27, 2024
The Humboldt penguin population has dramatically decreased in areas along the central coast of Chile, making them one of the most vulnerable of the world's 18 penguin species and
June 27, 2024
European Union lawmakers are split over whether to delay the bloc's upcoming ban on imports of goods linked to deforestation, adding pressure on Ursula von der Leyen
June 27, 2024
U.S. manufacturing and chemical industry groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to block a federal rule announced this year setting the first-ever drinking water standard
June 27, 2024
Canada is expecting a hotter-than-usual summer with slightly below-average precipitation in central Canada, government officials said on Tuesday, offering little relief
June 27, 2024
India's annual monsoon has covered more than three-fourths of the country and it is set to cover the entire country on time for the planting season despite
June 27, 2024
Recent torrential rains in Chile have brought back to life - for now at least - reservoirs and lagoons that had all but dried up after years of drought, with
June 27, 2024
Wildfires above the Arctic Circle in June have unleashed carbon emissions that are the third highest for the time of year in two decades of monitoring, European scientists
June 27, 2024
Russian marine specialists are racing to save a humpback whale which has become entangled in a fishing net north of the Arctic circle.
June 27, 2024
Indervir Singh has worked for the Delhi Fire Services for 32 years but he can't recall responding to as many fires as this summer.
June 27, 2024
The World Bank's board approved a plan on Tuesday for the bank to act as interim host of a fund that will provide financial support to developing countries impacted by climate
June 27, 2024
The global market for carbon dioxide (CO2) removal credits could reach up to $100 billion a year between 2030 and 2035 from $2.7 billion last year if barriers to
June 27, 2024
Severe weather over days has caused havoc and destruction across the U.S. That includes torrential rains and flooding in the Upper Midwest and powerful storms in the Northeast that left a least two people dead from falling trees
June 27, 2024
Children trudge through water contaminated with sewage and scale growing mounds of garbage in Gaza’s tent camps for displaced families
June 27, 2024
In the rare earths sector, the EU will struggle to meet most of its ambitious goals in new legislation designed to boost domestic output of critical minerals and reduce dependence
June 27, 2024
China has provided more than 2.3 billion yuan ($316.4 million) in funds to help with rescue efforts, emergency supplies and planning as deadly floods and landslides caused by almost
June 26, 2024
Tesla must fix air quality problems at its electric vehicle manufacturing facility in the San Francisco Bay Area after racking up more than 100 violations for allegedly releasing toxic emissions into the atmosphere over the last five years
June 26, 2024
A group of 26 state attorneys general led by West Virginia and Kentucky on Wednesday challenged the Biden administration's new fuel economy rules, calling the
June 26, 2024
Intentionally releasing a balloon will soon be illegal in Florida
June 26, 2024
The European Union will set out how its member countries should jointly develop major renewable energy projects, in a bid to avoid projects being
June 26, 2024
A wildfire in Oregon’s high desert has grown rapidly
June 26, 2024
Pope Francis has decreed that an area of northern Rome long used by Vatican Radio will now house a field of solar panels to fuel Vatican City
June 26, 2024
Coral reefs share genetic material across wide areas, with help from ocean currents. This ability is especially important during episodes like the mass bleaching currently occurring.
June 26, 2024
The June heat wave triggered warnings of a flash drought and caused a surge in ER visits. Many other countries have been facing extreme heat at the same time.
June 26, 2024
One of President Joe Biden’s signature laws aimed to invigorate renewable energy manufacturing in the U.S. It will also help a solar panel company reap billions of dollars
June 26, 2024
Nigeria on Tuesday announced a ban on single-use plastics in government offices as a prelude to a nation-wide ban set to begin in January next year, a move that
June 26, 2024
Denmark will tax livestock farmers for the greenhouse gases emitted by their cows, sheep and pigs from 2030, the first country to do so as it targets a major source of methane emissions, one of the most potent gases contributing to global warming
June 26, 2024
Here are the carbon reduction targets and goals set out by the world's biggest four iron ore miners.
June 26, 2024
Native American religious ceremonies with dancing, drumming, singing and the retelling of a sacred legend commemorated the recent birth of a rare white buffalo calf in Yellowstone National Park
June 26, 2024
A house that was teetering on the edge of an eroding riverbank near a Minnesota dam has collapsed into the river as extreme weather and flooding continue to grip the upper Midwest
June 26, 2024
A group of more than 200 investors on Wednesday backed a plan to start talks with 60 companies over biodiversity, focusing on those active in countries with
June 25, 2024
BHP Group's operational carbon emissions are set for a "small increase" this financial year, an executive revealed on Wednesday, as the miner said its "non
June 25, 2024
A Minnesota dam is still intact after floodwaters overcame parts of the structure and prompted officials to prepare for a potential collapse
June 25, 2024
A group of 112 cities aiming to eliminate their net greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 will need a combined 650 billion euros ($695.83 billion
June 25, 2024
DuPont, 3M, Honeywell and 16 other defendants were sued on Tuesday by Connecticut firefighters who said their protective gear was contaminated by toxic "forever
June 25, 2024
Iowa regulators have approved a controversial carbon dioxide pipeline for transporting emissions of the climate-warming greenhouse gas for storage underground
June 25, 2024
Meteorologists have for the first time issued a heat advisory for the entire island of Puerto Rico as it struggles with chronic power outages
June 25, 2024
Brazilian farmers are keener to switch to bioinputs than peers in other countries, according to new research showing the average annual growth of
June 25, 2024
Environmental activist Lejla Kusturica stood on the banks of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Neretva river, wondering if it was the last time she
June 25, 2024
Durability and the risk of chemicals being released when pipes heat up are just 2 concerns about plastic pipes.
June 25, 2024
South Sudan's most comprehensive aerial wildlife survey found about 6 million antelope — a figure that would make it the world's largest land mammal migration
June 25, 2024
For the first time farmed aquatic production has exceeded the catch from traditional captured fisheries, the U.N. food and agriculture agency said on Friday,
June 25, 2024
Thousands of dead fish have blanketed the surface of a lagoon in Mexico's northern state of Chihuahua, and local officials are blaming an intense
June 25, 2024
European Union leaders will call this week for a greater focus on manufacturing green technologies in Europe, as competition to produce electric cars and wind
June 25, 2024
One method of making electricity cleanly to address climate change has been quietly advancing and just hit a milestone
June 25, 2024
A rapidly growing wildfire near the central Oregon community of La Pine is being spurred by gusty winds and prompting evacuations
June 25, 2024
Denmark, a major pork and dairy exporter, will introduce a tax on livestock carbon dioxide emissions from 2030, making it the first country to do so and
June 25, 2024
Lufthansa will add an environmental charge of up to 72 euros ($77) to its fares, the airline group said on Tuesday, joining at least one
June 25, 2024
Setting aside an additional 1.2% of the world's land as nature preserves would prevent the majority of predicted plant and animal extinctions and cost about $263
June 25, 2024
No AC but the ‘greenest’ ever Games? Inside Paris’ landmark Olympic Village
June 25, 2024
A steel plant in the southern Italian city of Taranto should be shut down if it poses significant threats to the environment and human health, the European Court of Justice said
June 25, 2024
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy says Norfolk Southern repeatedly tried to interfere with the investigation into the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment and shape its conclusions about what the agency called a flawed decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the vinyl chloride inside
June 25, 2024
The CEO of a South Korean lithium battery manufacturer apologised on Tuesday following a massive factory fire that killed 23
June 25, 2024
Heavy rains have caused record-setting flooding in parts of Iowa and South Dakota
June 24, 2024
Mexico's President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, an accomplished climate scientist, could struggle to fulfill her environmental pledges after she sailed to
June 24, 2024
Further landslides will likely plague the area where part of a mountain collapsed onto a remote village in Papua New Guinea two weeks ago, New Zealand geological
June 24, 2024
Fires in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands have surged nearly tenfold so far this year to the highest levels since 2020, when the biome suffered its worst blazes
June 24, 2024
Stinging jellyfish, rays with their whip-like tails and sharks on the hunt are some ocean hazards that might typically worry beachgoers
June 24, 2024
The Supreme Court has agreed to consider reviving a critical approval for a railroad project that would carry crude oil and boost fossil fuel production in rural eastern Utah
June 24, 2024
Spring 2024 was menacing for large parts of the US, with a tornado nearly every day in May. Tornado outbreaks tore up communities across multiple states.
June 24, 2024
Five years after the 2018 Camp Fire killed 85 people and destroyed 90% of the homes here, residents of Paradise, California, face a new struggle: Finding homeowner's insurance
June 24, 2024
When the Biden administration announced new U.S. auto-emissions regulations in March, it made concessions to industry allowing for a much slower electric-vehicle
June 24, 2024
Flooding in the Midwestern U.S. has collapsed a railroad bridge and sent water surging around a dam after days of heavy rains that have forced hundreds of people to evacuate or be rescued
June 24, 2024
Six people protesting climate change came out of the crowd and stormed the 18th green while the leaders were lining up their putts on the final hole of regulation at the Travelers Championship on Sunday, delaying the finish for about five minutes
June 23, 2024
Full-time residents of Ruidoso will be allowed to return home Monday as federal authorities seek to prosecute whoever started a pair of New Mexico wildfires that killed two people and destroyed or damaged hundreds of buildings and homes
June 23, 2024
More than 100 million people across the U.S. were under heat warnings on Sunday, with cities on the East Coast bracing for record-breaking temperatures as the heat dome causing the
June 23, 2024
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Sunday that China was indispensable to achieving global climate goals and must find a safe alternative to
June 23, 2024
Each of the past 12 months ranked as the warmest on record in year-on-year comparisons, the EU's climate change monitoring
June 23, 2024
Federal authorities are offering a reward for information about those responsible for igniting a pair of New Mexico wildfires
June 22, 2024
Just seven electric-vehicle (EV) charging stations have begun operating with funding from a $5-billion U.S. government program created in 2021, marking "
June 22, 2024
Most of India’s 120 million farmers depend on rain from monsoons for a good harvest
June 22, 2024
About two years after 13 children and teens sued Hawaii over the threat posed by climate change, both sides have reached a settlement that includes an ambitious requirement to decarbonize the state's transportation system over the next 21 years
June 21, 2024
With little warning, thousands of people were forced to flee their homes as a pair of wildfires ballooned in a single afternoon
June 21, 2024
The head of the Homeland Security Department says the agency tasked with responding to disasters across the country is prepared as it goes into what is expected to be an intense hurricane and wildfire season
June 21, 2024
The U.S. Olympic team is one of a handful that will supply air conditioners for their athletes at the Paris Games in a move that undercuts organizers’ plans to cut carbon emissions
June 21, 2024
A relentless heat wave continues to bake most of the U.S., with numerous areas expected to see record-breaking temperatures
June 21, 2024
The Supreme Court has rejected a settlement between Western states over the management of one of North America’s longest rivers
June 21, 2024
A traffic engineer argues that, contrary to his profession’s view, ‘human error’ is not the main cause of deaths in car crashes in the US.
June 21, 2024
After weeks of scorching heat and little rain, farmer Zhang Yunjing had no choice but to collect water from a wastewater pipe to
June 21, 2024
Researchers are exploring multiple uses for wind parks far out at sea, such as producing fresh seafood
June 21, 2024
Switzerland's upper house of parliament on Wednesday slammed a recent ruling by a top European court that pressed the country to do more to combat global warming, arguing that Swiss
June 21, 2024
A group of prominent former emerging market finance chiefs is pressing global leaders to incorporate external shocks and climate change into debt sustainability
June 21, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration is asking big technology companies to invest in new climate-friendly power generation
June 21, 2024
Hawaii on Thursday agreed to take action to decarbonize its transportation system by 2045 to settle a lawsuit by 13 young people alleging the U.S. state was violating their
June 20, 2024
California’s workplace regulators passed rules that would protect indoor workers from extreme heat
June 20, 2024
The IMF said on Thursday its executive board approved funding for Tanzania of $786.2 million to help tackle climate change while also completing a separate
June 20, 2024
The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that planners reviewing well-drilling permits must consider the environmental impact from burning the oil that would be produced
June 20, 2024
The roar of the leaf blower has become an inescapable part of daily life in communities across America, leading towns and states to ban or restrict blowers that run on gasoline
June 20, 2024
More than 1,000 firefighters are taking advantage of the weather to get the upper hand on a pair of fires in New Mexico that killed two people, destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands to flee
June 20, 2024
A heat wave is moving closer to the breaking point from the Midwest to New England, but there's no immediate relief in sight for much of the rest of the country
June 20, 2024
Farmers drove hundreds of tractors into Brussels on Tuesday to protest against the European Union's environmental policies, but
June 20, 2024
Two of the world's biggest solar panel makers, First Solar and Hanwha Qcells, are the first to register products under an environmental ratings system that will make them preferred in U.S.
June 20, 2024
Stonehenge monuments that have stood for thousands of years appear unscathed after climate protesters were arrested for spraying orange paint on them
June 20, 2024
Alberto, the first named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, has weakened into a tropical depression as it moves inland over northeastern Mexico, bringing more heavy rains and
June 20, 2024
Amazon is moving from putting plastic air pillows in its packages in North America to using recycled paper filling instead, a move that’s more environmentally friendly and is said to secure items in boxes just the same, if not better
June 20, 2024
Herders carved names, slogans, nude silhouettes and more into the trees around them during lonely seasons in the mountains. Now, researchers rush to find and record the arborglyphs before they disappear.
June 20, 2024
Deadly heatwaves are scorching cities on four continents as the Northern Hemisphere marks the first day of summer, a sign that climate change may again help to fuel
June 20, 2024
Climate change made the recent flooding that devastated southern Brazil twice as likely, a team of international scientists said on Monday, adding that the heavy rains were also
June 20, 2024
Volvo Cars is launching the world's first EV battery passport recording the origins of raw materials, components, recycled content and carbon footprint for its
June 20, 2024
India's monsoon is advancing after stalling for more than a week and rains are set to cover central parts of the country in the next few days, bringing relief
June 20, 2024
A new study finds that human-caused climate change dialed up the heat and drastically increased the odds of this month’s killer heat that has been baking the Southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America
June 20, 2024
U.S. home energy bills are expected to rise by 7.9% this summer as extreme heat increases cooling costs, according to a study released on Monday by the National Energy Assistance
June 19, 2024
Research animal breeder Envigo pleaded guilty in Virginia on Monday to federal animal welfare and environmental crimes, resolving a two-year U.S.
June 19, 2024
Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and protege of Mexico's popular outgoing president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, won a landslide to
June 19, 2024
Two climate protesters have been arrested for spraying orange paint on the ancient Stonehenge monument in southern England
June 19, 2024
With their bulging red eyes and their alien-like mating sound, periodical cicadas can seem scary and weird enough
June 19, 2024
The head of the global airline body IATA said there was no need to reduce growth in global aviation in order to meet an industry target to meet net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
June 19, 2024
The El Nino weather pattern that can cause extreme events such as wildfires and tropical cyclones is forecast to swing back into generally cooler La Nina conditions later this year,
June 19, 2024
The U.S.-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework is holding a ministerial meeting this week in Singapore, including major firms joining a "Clean Economy"
June 19, 2024
Bolivian ranchers Elizabeth and Edwin Churata are learning how to survive in a drier, hotter climate.
June 19, 2024
India's unusually severe heatwave this summer is suspected to have killed more than 100 people and made tens of thousands ill,
June 19, 2024
Heavy rain and hail are falling around an evacuated village in New Mexico threatened by wildfires that have killed at least two people and damaged more than 1,400 structures, offering the hope of some assistance for firefighters but adding the threat of high winds and flash floods
June 19, 2024
Australia’s main opposition party says it plans to build Australia’s first nuclear power plants as early as 2035, arguing the government’s policies for decarbonizing the economy with renewable energy will not work
June 19, 2024
An Alaska man and two police officers have joined forces to rescue a baby moose that got stuck between a floatplane and a dock in a lake
June 19, 2024
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering removing the Nashville crayfish from the endangered species list, but some biologists argue it still needs protection because its range is so limited
June 19, 2024
The number of companies saying they have a climate transition plan in line with the world's most ambitious goal has jumped by nearly half, but many do not give
June 18, 2024
The U.S. government has acknowledged for the first time the harms that the construction and operation of dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest have caused Native American tribes
June 18, 2024
Summer kicks off in the Northern Hemisphere with the summer solstice on Thursday
June 18, 2024
The new level won’t trigger automatic cleanups, but it sets a lower threshold for taking precautions to reduce lead exposure.
June 18, 2024
Big new wildfires are challenging California firefighters even as they increase containment of earlier blazes that erupted as dry winds arrived last weekend
June 18, 2024
Farming and biofuels organizations are hopeful that ethanol could be used to power passenger jets, but making that dream a reality hasn’t been easy
June 18, 2024
Extreme heat alerts are in effect for tens of millions of people in the United States as cities including Chicago break heat records
June 18, 2024
Thailand has tried for years to deal with its pollution problem
June 18, 2024
Geopolitical tensions, aircraft shortages and ambitious environmental targets will deliver a host of challenges to global airline bosses at an annual summit next week,
June 17, 2024
Shipping fuel regulations introduced in 2020 have led to a substantial cut in sulphur dioxide (SO2) pollution, but may also have made the ocean warmer by
June 17, 2024
The Democratic-controlled Vermont Legislature on Monday overturned a number of the Republican governor’s vetoes, passing measures to prevent drug overdoses, restrict a pesticide that’s toxic to bees and to require state utilities to source all renewable energy by 2035
June 17, 2024
Danish King Frederik X has inaugurated the first element of a future 18-kilometer (11-mile) rail-and-road tunnel under the Baltic Sea that will link southern Denmark to northern Germany and contribute to the transport sector’s green transition
June 17, 2024
The answer depends in part on where you live. If it’s extremely hot and humid, the health risks are much higher.
June 17, 2024
Soaring temperatures in India's capital have proven to be too much for some courts and are putting to the test a law in place since 1961 that requires lawyers
June 17, 2024
Norway plans to increase its control of infrastructure on the Arctic Svalbard islands, the government said on Friday as security concerns and climate change impact the archipelago.
June 17, 2024
European Union countries have given final approval to a major and long-awaited plan to better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc
June 17, 2024
Firefighters have increased containment of a large wildfire in mountains north of Los Angeles after a weekend of explosive growth along Interstate 5
June 17, 2024
Monsoon rains hit the coast of India's southernmost state of Kerala on Thursday, two days sooner than expected, weather officials
June 17, 2024
Singapore authorities say a dredger boat reported a sudden loss in engine and steering control before it hit a cargo tanker last week, causing the oil spill that has blackened part of the city-island’s southern shores
June 17, 2024
Little to no ethanol will qualify for U.S. sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) subsidies under a new pilot program by President Joe Biden's administration,
June 16, 2024
A cleanup was underway after an oil spill caused by a dredger boat hitting a stationary cargo tanker blackened part of Singapore’s southern coastline
June 16, 2024
Strong winds are pushing flames from a wildfire through dry brush in mountains along Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles
June 16, 2024
Much of the U.S. is bracing for extreme weather — especially high temperatures — this weekend and into next week
June 15, 2024
The periodical cicadas that have blanketed parts of the American Midwest this spring are strange creatures, but they have nothing on some of their superfans
June 15, 2024
Rising sea levels due to climate change have forced an Indigenous Guna community to leave their homes on an island off Panama's coast that is fast disappearing.
June 15, 2024
The water quality of the Seine river in Paris is raising concerns ahead of the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games
June 14, 2024
The recent appearance of a rare white bison calf has excited wildlife watchers in Yellowstone National Park
June 14, 2024
What stands out during a cicada invasion is the sound
June 14, 2024
The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed expanding tax credits that have for years boosted U.S. solar and wind energy projects to cover a wider range
June 14, 2024
Most of Australia's main cropping regions are likely to endure a dry June but should grow significantly wetter from July, the country's weather bureau said on Thursday.
June 13, 2024
The California Legislature is signaling that it could cancel a $400 million loan payment to help finance a longer lifespan for the state’s last nuclear power plant
June 13, 2024
A watchdog group says the Environmental Protection Agency should conduct additional soil studies around the site of a toxic train derailment in Ohio after independent testing found high levels of chemicals in locally grown garlic
June 13, 2024
Wildlife experts have hit a dead end in their quest to determine how a gray wolf arrived in southern Michigan for the first time in more than 100 years
June 13, 2024
The United States has granted the Makah Indian Tribe in Washington state a long-sought waiver that helps clear the way for its first sanctioned whale hunts since 1999
June 13, 2024
Scientists say a large number of whales visiting the waters off New England included an uncommon sighting of an orca eating a tuna and an unusually large group of an endangered species of whale
June 13, 2024
The strong El Nino weather condition that added a bit of extra heat to already record warm global temperatures is gone
June 13, 2024
The Supreme Court drastically reduced federal protection for wetlands in 2023. Two environmental lawyers explain how private businesses and nongovernment organizations can help fill the gap.
June 13, 2024
There’s lots of talk of change in Britain’s election campaign, but little talk about climate change
June 13, 2024
Greek authorities have closed down the Acropolis for much of the afternoon for a second day as the country swelters under unseasonably high temperatures
June 13, 2024
A tropical disturbance that brought a rare flash flood emergency to much of southern Florida delayed flights at two of the state’s largest airports and left vehicles waterlogged and stalled in some of the region’s lowest-lying streets
June 13, 2024
A group of Ukrainian winemakers has visited California’s Napa Valley to learn about organic farming and how to heal land scarred by bombs and littered with mines
June 13, 2024
An increase in the number of hot days as climate change warms the globe would likely damage the U.S. economy over the long-term, according to research published on Tuesday by
June 13, 2024
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape on Wednesday blamed "extraordinary rainfall" and changes to weather patterns for multiple disasters in
June 12, 2024
Latin America's human rights court holds a final hearing in Brazil on Wednesday in a case that's part of a global wave of climate litigation, as several
June 12, 2024
The White House on Wednesday unveiled nearly $900 million in awards to 530 school districts to replace thousands of aging, gas-fueled school buses with cleaner, mainly electric models.
June 12, 2024
Toyota Motor showcased next-generation engines on Tuesday that can be used in cars as varied as hybrids and those running on biofuel, as it targets tougher emissions standards and
June 12, 2024
The president of this decade's summit for Small Island Developing States on Monday blasted "empty" and "grossly inadequate" climate pledges, saying wealthy nations have
June 12, 2024
An extreme weather phenomenon known as the dzud has killed more than 7.1 million animals in Mongolia, endangering herders' livelihoods and way of life
June 12, 2024
A Silicon Valley-backed initiative to build a green city for up to 400,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area has qualified for the Nov. 5 ballot
June 11, 2024
A hotly contested East Coast natural gas pipeline has been given the go-ahead to start operating
June 11, 2024
The most comprehensive assessment yet of a powerful greenhouse gas shows which countries are driving the increase, and which ones are successfully cutting emissions.
June 11, 2024
The third heat wave suffocating dozens of states in Mexico could give way on Sunday to torrential rains, hail and even whirlwinds during the afternoon in the center of the
June 11, 2024
The reported birth of a rare white buffalo calf in Yellowstone National Park fulfills a Lakota prophecy that portends better times
June 11, 2024
The conservationist group known as NYC Audubon has changed its name to NYC Bird Alliance to distance itself from the pro-slavery views of ornithologist and illustrator John James Audubon
June 11, 2024
Tap water is just one of the ways people are exposed to PFAS.
June 11, 2024
In winter 2023-24, the Great Lakes’ ice cover was near record lows, peaking at just 16%. Researchers explain how diminishing ice could have consequences for fisheries, and how species are evolving.
June 11, 2024
Sea cucumbers have been overharvested for centuries. At the same time, coral reefs have declined as well. Research suggests that saving the former may help restore the latter.
June 11, 2024
The humanitarian organization Direct Relief is helping community health centers across the United States install rooftop solar and battery storage systems as they confront more frequent power outages from extreme weather and fickle grid systems
June 11, 2024
Scientists using new methods of measuring the carcinogen ethylene oxide have found much higher than expected levels of the chemical in the air along a corridor in southeastern Louisiana
June 11, 2024
At least 11 people have died of suspected heat-related causes in western India and Pakistan also sweltered on Friday in extreme heat, while parts of Bangladesh and
June 11, 2024
A volunteer firefighter and a Chilean forestry official have been formally accused by prosecutors with involvement in setting wildfires that engulfed central Chile this past February,
June 11, 2024
Hundreds of caged animals died after a fire struck Chatuchak Weekend Market, one of the most famous markets in Thailand’s capital
June 11, 2024
A New Mexico judge has cleared the way for a landmark lawsuit to proceed over allegations that the state has failed to meet its constitutional obligations for protecting against oil and gas pollution
June 10, 2024
A landslide has wiped out a vital two-lane road in western Wyoming
June 10, 2024
U.S. government forecasters said on Thursday up to seven major hurricanes may form in an "extraordinary" 2024 Atlantic hurricane season beginning June 1.
June 10, 2024
Global ocean temperatures have been at record highs almost daily for over a year, and economies are feeling the heat.
June 10, 2024
Claudia Sheinbaum, front-runner in Mexico's presidential race, aims to overhaul water governance in the agriculture sector, the top
June 09, 2024
Amid Mexico's heat wave and drought, suffering birds are getting air-conditioning and monkeys with heatstroke are being rescued by non-governmental groups
June 09, 2024
A large chunk of a mountain pass highway in Wyoming has collapsed, severing a well-traveled commuter link between small towns in eastern Idaho and the tourist destination of Jackson
June 08, 2024
A massive rare fish thought to only live in temperate waters in the southern hemisphere has washed up on Oregon's northern coast
June 07, 2024
The total global volume of fish, shrimp, clams and other aquatic animals that are harvested by farming has topped the amount fished in the wild from the world’s waters for the first time ever
June 07, 2024
New vehicles sold in the U.S. will have to average about 38 miles per gallon of gasoline in 2031 in real-world driving, up from about 29 mpg this year, under new federal rules unveiled Friday by the Biden administration
June 07, 2024
Collaborative research by archaeologists, environmental scientists and tribal elders combines science and Indigenous knowledge to tell the story of centuries of life at a glacier’s edge.
June 07, 2024
Las Vegas has set a new record high for the second day in a row and Albuquerque tied its high mark
June 07, 2024
Millions of young people took to the streets across Europe in 2019 demanding action to fight climate change, helping Green
June 07, 2024
Records have tumbled across the Southwest United States as temperatures soared past 110 degrees in parts of California, Nevada and Arizona
June 07, 2024
A U.S. district judge has dismissed claims by Native American tribes and environmentalists who sought to halt construction along part of a $10 billion energy transmission line
June 06, 2024
Hammocks have begun appearing this week in the doorways of 300 new houses built in what was previously a yucca field along Panama’s Caribbean coast
June 06, 2024
Even in a concrete jungle like Los Angeles, wild species show up in surprising places. New research identifies the types of wildlife that best tolerate urban development.
June 06, 2024
Stellantis expects a major battle with Chinese rivals in the European market for electric vehicles, warning of significant consequences for jobs
June 06, 2024
Nepal's abundant hydroelectric power is helping the Himalayan nation cut its oil imports and clean up its air, thanks to a boom in sales of electric vehicles
June 06, 2024
Republican attorneys general from 20 U.S. states sued the Biden administration on Tuesday, seeking to block new reforms to the U.S. environmental review process for major
June 05, 2024
Month after month, global temperatures are breaking records
June 05, 2024
Shell shareholders on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a climate resolution filed by an activist group following a meeting punctuated by protests
June 05, 2024
German chemical company BASF said on Tuesday it reached a $316.5 million settlement with some U.S. public water systems that claimed toxic “forever chemicals” in
June 05, 2024
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has called for a “windfall” tax on profits of fossil fuel companies to help pay for the fight against global warming
June 05, 2024
Power use in Texas broke the record for the month of May on Monday and will likely top that high over the next week as homes and businesses keep their air conditioners
June 05, 2024
PepsiCo said on Tuesday it would expand its fleet of electric vehicles in California, deploying 50 Class 8 Tesla Semi trucks and 75 Ford E-Transit electric vans at its facilities in the
June 05, 2024
Hardening electric transmission systems and monitoring ocean temperatures are 2 key priorities.
June 05, 2024
The season’s first heat wave is already baking the Southwestern U.S. with triple-digit temperatures as Phoenix firefighters employ new tactics in hopes of saving more lives
June 05, 2024
Top scientists calculate that the rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year’s surprising record-shattering heat caused by humans
June 04, 2024
Canada on Friday ordered some petrochemical plants in Ontario to take strict measures to control pollution from cancer-causing chemical benzene after release from a
June 04, 2024
In the fields of Pergamino in Argentina's grain heartland, farmer Adrian Farroni is revving up his soybean harvest late, delayed by rains that
June 04, 2024
A leading driver of this seaweed invasion is pollution, carried down rivers and into the Atlantic Ocean from the continents.
June 04, 2024
A volcano on the remote Indonesian island of Halmahera has spectacularly erupted, spewing a grey ash cloud into the sky, and people from seven nearby villages have been evacuated,
June 04, 2024
The first heat wave of the season has arrived earlier than usual across much of the U.S. Southwest
June 04, 2024
Many Americans still aren’t sold on going electric for their next car purchase
June 04, 2024
A female-led group of forest rangers in Indonesia are defying social norms to lead patrols in the jungle to combat deforestation
June 04, 2024
German police arrested eight climate activists who breached the grounds of Munich airport on Saturday, briefly causing the airport to close and leading to around 60
June 03, 2024
For at least some residents, Atlanta’s water problems aren't over
June 03, 2024
California’s largest wildfire so far this year has been significantly surrounded after blackening a swath of hilly grasslands between San Francisco Bay and the Central Valley
June 03, 2024
A community in Massachusetts is about to become one of the first in the U.S. to be heated with geothermal, or ground source heat pumps, that are connected to each other
June 03, 2024
Power use in Texas will likely break records for the month of May next week as homes and businesses crank up their air conditioners to escape a spring heat wave, the
June 03, 2024
Oregon authorities have closed the state's entire coastline to mussel harvesting due to an outbreak of shellfish poisoning they described as “unprecedented.”
June 01, 2024
The Biden administration on Thursday proposed an end to future coal leasing on federal lands in Montana and Wyoming's Powder River Basin, the nation's most productive coal-producing region
June 01, 2024
An environmental activist was detained after sticking a protest sign to a Monet painting in Paris’ famed Orsay Museum
June 01, 2024
A top United Nations official says even though climate change makes disasters such as cyclones, floods and droughts more intense, more frequent and striking more places, fewer people are dying from those catastrophes globally
June 01, 2024
Fossil fuel groups have sued the U.S.
June 01, 2024
Methane emissions at nearly two dozen U.S. landfills regularly exceeded federal limits and in some cases were higher than facility owners reported to the government, according to an
May 31, 2024
Atlanta officials say a water main break has interrupted water service and led to low water pressure in the city’s downtown and other parts of Georgia’s capital
May 31, 2024
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is calling for more nuclear reactors to be built in the United States and worldwide
May 31, 2024
The number of buyers in the U.S. considering an electric vehicle purchase in 2024 has fallen from a year ago due to a shortage of affordable cars, inadequate charging infrastructure and
May 31, 2024
Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather
May 31, 2024
Firefighters in western Canada are battling the first major wildfires of 2024 after unseasonably warm temperatures and an ongoing drought left forests tinder-dry.
May 31, 2024
The rhetorical “war on coal” is back as Republicans try to capitalize on moves by President Joe Biden's administration to rein in pollution and climate change
May 31, 2024
If the ocean circulation, known as AMOC, shuts down, it would be a climate disaster, particularly for Europe and North America. New research shows why that might not happen as soon as some fear.
May 30, 2024
The despair in Nilton Muradaz Junior's eyes is unmistakable as he looks at the vast lake that was once his farm and home
May 30, 2024
North Korea floated huge balloons to dump trashes like manures, cigarette butts, scrap cloth pieces and waste batteries across rival South Korea
May 30, 2024
Lebanon's caretaker economy minister says the country's rulers, fuel companies and private electricity providers have blocked an offer by gas-rich Qatar to build three renewable energy power plants to ease the crisis-hit nation’s decades-old electricity crisis
May 30, 2024
A large wildfire is slowly approaching the major Canadian oil sands city of Fort McMurray and around 6,000 people in four suburbs have been told to
May 30, 2024
The National Park Services says two climbers are awaiting rescue near the peak of North America’s tallest mountain a day after they and a third climber in their team requested help
May 29, 2024
The state of Michigan says it’s willing to step in and oversee property repairs at 1,900 homes in Flint
May 29, 2024
Denka Performance Elastomer in Louisiana threatened to shut down if the Biden administration doesn't give it more time to reduce its emissions
May 29, 2024
A wildfire burning near Fort Nelson, in rural British Columbia has grown in size but is moving away from the town, offering some relief to residents who were forced
May 29, 2024
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld a rule from President Joe Biden's administration that set the amount of biofuels that oil refiners were required to blend into the
May 29, 2024
A Native American group said on Tuesday it will take its fight against Rio Tinto’s proposed Arizona copper mine to the U.S.
May 29, 2024
Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed a bill aimed at reevaluating and potentially revising existing offshore wind project plans, setting the stage for the state's goal of achieving 8,500
May 29, 2024
Extreme temperatures throughout Asia last month were made worse - and more likely - as a result of human-driven climate change, a team of international scientists said on
May 29, 2024
Thanks to heavy use of nitrogen fertilizer, tiny organisms that flourish in farm fields emit nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas that can warm the planet more than carbon dioxide and stay in the atmosphere for over a century
May 29, 2024
Heat-related howler monkeys deaths in Mexico have been recorded in a total of four states, environmental authorities said
May 29, 2024
A volcano in southwestern Iceland is erupting again, spewing red streams of lava and triggering the evacuation of the popular Blue Lagoon geothermal spa
May 29, 2024
In the mountains, heavy downpours can be devastating, especially when storms hit back to back. Yet, hurricane season’s inland flood risk is often overlooked until it’s too late.
May 29, 2024
Avocados are marketed as a superfood, but growing them for an expanding world market has turned a rural Mexican state into an unsustainable monoculture.
May 29, 2024
A rush by U.S. fuel makers to recalibrate their plants to produce renewable diesel has created a supply glut for low-emissions biofuels, hammering
May 29, 2024
Tesla has been sued by an environmental nonprofit that accused Elon Musk's electric car company of violating the federal Clean Air Act hundreds of
May 29, 2024
A grizzly bear was standing on his back and went in for the ‘kill bite.’ He survived to tell the story
May 28, 2024
The season's first major wildfires have spread to roughly 10,000 hectares (24,710 acres) across Western Canada on Sunday as authorities issued an evacuation order for a community in
May 28, 2024
When Arctic nations simulated a large oil spill for a virtual training exercise in March off northern Norway, Russia also took part - a rare sign
May 28, 2024
There are early signs that a La Nina weather event may form in the Pacific Ocean later this year, Australia's weather bureau said on Tuesday.
May 28, 2024
A team of researchers set out to determine if today’s Hollywood blockbusters are reflective of the current climate crisis and found out they aren't most of the time
May 28, 2024
Officials in America’s hottest big metro are working to better protect people amid temperatures already hitting the triple digits this spring
May 28, 2024
The victims of last summer's staggering 31-day streak of daily temperatures reaching 110 degrees Fahrenheit and over were old and young, male and female, homeless and well-to-do, Black, white, Hispanic, Asian American and Native American
May 28, 2024
Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea’s mass-casualty disaster
May 28, 2024
European Union countries gave their final approval on Monday to a law to cut carbon dioxide emissions from trucks, which will require most new heavy-duty vehicles
May 28, 2024
The number of heat-related howler monkeys deaths in Mexico has risen to 157, with a tragically small number of the primates treated or recovering
May 27, 2024
As climate change makes storms more frequent and intense, Florida community foundations are looking for new ways to make sure they have resources on hand to support the public before, during and after a disaster
May 27, 2024
An evacuation alert has been issued for Fort McMurray, Alberta, as an out-of-control fire rages southwest of the major Canadian oil town, making it among the first actions ahead of
May 27, 2024
Erratic rainfall in China's southwest is frustrating a multibillion-dollar push to green an aluminium industry that accounts for almost 60% of global output and, by some estimates,
May 27, 2024
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is expected on Monday to issue a final rule to address the crunch in U.S. electricity transmission as the
May 27, 2024
Nigeria’s government is cracking down on illegal mining, making dozens of arrests of unlicensed miners since April for allegedly stealing the country’s lithium, a critical mineral used in batteries for electric vehicles, smartphones and power systems
May 27, 2024
The United States and China discussed Chinese overcapacity in solar and battery manufacturing, steel production and coal power during two days of bilateral
May 26, 2024
The dazed residents of a remote north Texas county sifted through their mangled homes after seven people there were killed when a tornado ripped through the region near the tiny community of Valley View
May 26, 2024
A Chilean judge has ordered a volunteer firefighter and a former forestry official detained for allegedly planning and causing a mammoth forest fire that caused 137 deaths and made 16,000 people homeless in February
May 26, 2024
Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of the Polish capital Warsaw on Friday to show their opposition to European Union environmental regulations that
May 25, 2024
Experts say planning before a tornado threatens is key for staying safe
May 25, 2024
An emergency convoy has delivered food, water and other provisions to stunned survivors of a landslide that devastated a remote village in the mountains of Papua New Guinea
May 25, 2024
Navajo officials are celebrating the signing of legislation outlining a proposed water rights settlement that will ensure supply from the Colorado River and other sources for three Native American tribes and more security for drought-stricken Arizona
May 24, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed to reverse dozens of the Biden administration's environmental rules and policies at a meeting with top U.S. oil executives,
May 24, 2024
Republican attorneys general from 27 U.S. states and industry trade groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, seeking to block a landmark rule requiring
May 24, 2024
A Thai town, run ragged by its ever-growing population of marauding wild monkeys, has launched an offensive against the simian raiders, using trickery and ripe tropical fruit
May 24, 2024
U.N. member countries have concluded a new treaty to ensure that genetic resources used in inventions, like new medicines derived from exotic plants in the Andes mountains, are properly traced
May 24, 2024
President Joe Biden has unleashed a flurry of election year rules on the environment as he tries to secure his legacy
May 24, 2024
It's time for a reality check about decarbonising Asia's vast and growing steel sector.
May 24, 2024
Staff at an influential corporate climate action group whose board announced a plan to allow companies to offset greenhouse gas emissions from their supply chain
May 24, 2024
The impact of the calamitous rains that struck East Africa from March to May was intensified by a mix of human-caused climate change and rapid growth of urban areas, an international team of climate scientists said in a study published Friday
May 24, 2024
Flooding in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state ravaged nearly everything needed for economic activity, from local shops to factories, farms and ranches
May 23, 2024
Researchers climbed the world’s largest tree to inspect for bark beetles and descended the giant sequoia with good news this week
May 23, 2024
The Navajo Nation Council has unanimously approved a proposed water rights settlement that carries a price tag larger than any such agreement enacted by Congress
May 23, 2024
The federal government agreed to a $15 million fine for Norfolk Southern over last year’s disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio
May 23, 2024
Extreme heat in Mexico, Central America and parts of the US South has left millions sweltering, strained energy grids and resulted in iconic Howler monkeys in Mexico dropping dead from trees
May 23, 2024
Get ready for what nearly all the experts think will be one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record thanks to unprecedented ocean heat and a brewing La Nina
May 23, 2024
NOAA expects an extraordinarily busy hurricane season, with 17-25 named storms and 8-13 hurricanes. An atmospheric scientist explains what that means.
May 23, 2024
The struggle starts early in the Hammanskraal area of South Africa as people queue some mornings to fill buckets with water from a tank provided by an aid agency
May 23, 2024
The Mojave Desert Land Trust's seed bank project holds more than 5 million seeds from 250 species and counting.
May 23, 2024
The National Weather Service says three separate powerful tornados carved up long paths across Iowa
May 23, 2024
Australia will quadruple its financial assistance to Tuvalu, a Pacific Island nation at risk from rising seas, to cement a landmark climate migration and security
May 22, 2024
The world just experienced its hottest April on record, extending an 11-month streak in which every month set a temperature record, the European Union's climate
May 22, 2024
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been fined in her native Sweden for disobeying police orders after blocking an entrance to parliament on two occasions in March, the Stockholm
May 22, 2024
The European Commission is planning to allow exemptions from a proposed ban on substances known as PFAS, or "forever chemicals", to
May 22, 2024
Japan will add large fin whales to its list of commercial whaling species, government spokesperson Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Thursday, five years after leaving an international body
May 22, 2024
A wind farm in southwest Iowa suffered a direct hit from a powerful tornado that crumpled five of the massive power-producing towers, including one that burst into flames
May 22, 2024
A grizzly that bit into a can of bear repellent while attacking a hiker in Grand Teton National Park was likely defending a cub at the time and won't be captured or killed by authorities
May 22, 2024
The UN’s World Food Programme says extreme weather attributed to the El Nino phenomenon is causing a surge in hunger in several countries, including Zambia and Afghanistan, and called on donors for much-needed help
May 22, 2024
City parks are like outdoor living rooms: If people feel welcome and relaxed, they will settle in.
May 22, 2024
Global warming has brought Argentina's corn farmers a dangerous new enemy: a yellow insect just four millimeters (0.16
May 22, 2024
Many high school students in the United States are sensitive to the ongoing climate crisis, and some are demanding more paths that allow them to work on solutions to the planet's warming
May 22, 2024
A climate philanthropy organization, Giving Green, received a $10 million anonymous donation in April and thinks that the same donor may have given even more
May 22, 2024
Older adults face greater health risks from extreme heat for several reasons. Communities can save lives by starting to make changes now.
May 22, 2024
Discussions on how to scale up resources to deliver efficient and affordable clean cooking to all are on the table at the 9th Annual Global Conference on Energy Efficiency by the International Energy Agency
May 22, 2024
A Texas petrochemical company has pleaded guilty to a violation of the Clean Air Act and agreed to pay more than $30 million in connection with two explosions that injured workers and caused the evacuation of thousands
May 21, 2024
The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has toured the Houston area to assess the damage from last week’s deadly storms
May 21, 2024
Forecasters say this year's hurricane season for waters around Hawaii will likely be “below normal” with one to four tropical cyclones across the central Pacific region
May 21, 2024
The family of an Alaska man who was fatally attacked by a moose said the amateur photographer died doing what he loved
May 21, 2024
The United States will host China's Special Envoy for Climate Change Liu Zhenmin in Washington on Wednesday and Thursday, the State Department said.
May 21, 2024
It’s so hot in Mexico that howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees
May 21, 2024
A U.N. tribunal on maritime law has found that countries are legally required to reduce greenhouse gas pollution
May 21, 2024
Vertical wind shear can keep tropical storms in check, particularly during El Niño years. When El Niño is gone, ii’s often not as strong.
May 21, 2024
Authorities in Pakistan urged people to stay indoors as the country is hit by an extreme heat wave that threatens to bring dangerously high temperatures and yet another round of glacial-driven floods
May 21, 2024
A new study tracks how cockroaches spread around the globe to become the survival experts we know today
May 20, 2024
A California congressman says tribes should be more involved in the decision-making process for the development of the first offshore wind farms along the West Coast
May 20, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency warns that cyberattacks against water utilities around the U.S. are becoming more frequent and more severe
May 20, 2024
Those who want to climb one of the most popular trails on Japan's iconic Mount Fuji will have to book a slot and pay a fee soon
May 20, 2024
Heavy rains are expected to continue across Haiti on Friday, the national weather service said, after killing at least 13 people in the north and damaging thousands of homes
May 20, 2024
Journalists covering environmental issues have become increasingly targeted with violence as the world faces an
May 20, 2024
Brazil and the state of Espirito Santo have rejected a proposal by miners Vale and BHP regarding reparations for the deadly 2015 Mariana tailings dam burst, the federal
May 20, 2024
The container ship that caused the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge was slowly escorted back to port
May 20, 2024
Botanists and citizen scientists armed with the iNaturalist app on their smartphones are recording the biodiversity along the U.S.-Mexico border
May 19, 2024
As the Houston area works to clean up and restore power to hundreds of thousands after deadly storms left at least seven people dead, it will do so amid a smog warning and rising Texas heat
May 18, 2024
A decades-old landslide that’s rapidly accelerating has forced the dismantling of an iconic Southern California chapel known for its glass frame built among soaring redwoods and sweeping Pacific Ocean views
May 18, 2024
Antelmus Paulus, 67, is in despair after the eruption on Tuesday of Indonesia's Ruang volcano rendered his home on Tagulandang island uninhabitable and prompted
May 17, 2024
Federal wildlife officials have declared a rare lizard in southeastern New Mexico and West Texas an endangered species
May 17, 2024
The last U.S. zoo to have pandas in its care is preparing to say goodbye to the four giant bears this fall
May 17, 2024
Torrential rainfall in Brazil's second-largest soybean and sixth-largest corn state is disrupting the final stages of the harvest, according to a
May 17, 2024
A scenic fishing village in southwestern England is on its third day under instructions to boil its tap water after a parasite sickened more than 45 people
May 17, 2024
Laszlo Kemencei lives as sustainably as possible on his small farm in eastern Hungary.
May 17, 2024
Shell shareholders should vote against a resolution filed by a group of 27 investors urging the energy company to set tighter climate targets, proxy advisory Glass
May 17, 2024
When firefighters arrived at a blaze in a pine forest on the Greek island of Rhodes last July, flames were already leaping above the trees into the night sky.
May 17, 2024
Numerous bats have been found in Colorado with white-nose syndrome. The fungus has killed millions of bats in North America, leaving biologists concerned about its impact on bats in the state.
May 17, 2024
A local council in Germany has approved a plan by electric carmaker Tesla to expand the grounds of its first plant in Europe, a proposal which has drawn persistent protests this year
May 17, 2024
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo says it could take “weeks” for power to be restored in some parts of Houston following fierce storms with winds of up to 100 miles per hour
May 17, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency watchdog says the agency distributed about $3 billion to states last year to replace harmful lead pipes based on unverified data
May 16, 2024
A wildfire that has forced thousands of people out of their homes in Canada’s oil sands hub city of Fort McMurray, Alberta is being held in place as rain and cooler temperatures sweep through the area
May 16, 2024
Scientists say temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history
May 16, 2024
The U.S. Coast Guard estimates that up to 2,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into surrounding waters when a barge carrying fuel broke free from a tugboat and slammed into a bridge near Galveston, Texas
May 16, 2024
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday said a lawsuit filed by 21 young people claiming the U.S. government's energy policies violate their rights to be protected from climate
May 16, 2024
A Washington state appeals court overturned on Wednesday a $185 million verdict against Bayer's Monsanto unit over chemical contamination at a Seattle-area school, marking
May 16, 2024
Citigroup could suffer billions of dollars of losses in its loan book if the world sped up efforts to tackle climate
May 16, 2024
Understanding how humans came to exert such enormous pressure on Earth’s ecosystems can inform more sustainable ways of living.
May 16, 2024
Hena Khan, a grade nine student in Dhaka, has struggled to focus on her studies this week as temperatures surpassed 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees Fahrenheit
May 16, 2024
A University of Hawaii study examining the health effects of last year’s deadly wildfires on Maui has found that up to 74% of participants may have difficulty breathing and otherwise have poor respiratory health
May 16, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration on Tuesday released guidance on its sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) subsidy program that allows corn-based ethanol to qualify for the program if it is
May 15, 2024
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill making climate change a lesser priority under state law and banning offshore wind turbines near the state's long coastline
May 15, 2024
A utility owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway faces $30 billion of new claims blaming it for causing Oregon wildfires in 2020, nearly four times the maximum
May 15, 2024
The threat of a wildfire near Canada’s oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, appeared to be easing Wednesday, a day after thousands of residents were forced to evacuate their homes in the city of 68,000
May 15, 2024
Officials say a barge has hit a bridge in Galveston, Texas, spilling oil into surrounding waters and closing the only road connecting the city to Pelican Island
May 15, 2024
Energy ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies agreed on Tuesday to end the use of coal in power generation during the first half of the next
May 15, 2024
Negotiations on a future global treaty to tackle soaring plastic pollution ran overtime into Tuesday morning amid tense debates over whether the world should
May 15, 2024
The vast flooding that has devastated Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state has yet to subside
May 15, 2024
Norway's sovereign wealth fund plans to back a shareholder proposal demanding PepsiCo conduct a biodiversity risk assessment to gauge how vulnerable the soft drink and
May 15, 2024
As students across the nation consider jobs that play a role in solving the climate crisis, they’re looking for meaningful climate training
May 15, 2024
NoMowMay is a catchy concept, but it doesn’t provide the food that native North American pollinators need or lasting support for them.
May 15, 2024
Slovakia’s government approved a plan to build another nuclear reactor in a country that relies heavily on nuclear electricity generation
May 15, 2024
Half of the Chinese cities targeted by the government for air quality improvements have missed their targets as the country prioritised strengthening the economy
May 15, 2024
Sizzling heat across Asia and the Middle East in late April that echoed last year’s destructive swelter was made 45 times more likely in some parts of the continent because of human-caused climate change, a study Tuesday found
May 14, 2024
Bangladesh again closed all primary schools across the country and educational institutions in almost half of districts including the capital as a severe heatwave saw
May 14, 2024
Hundreds of residents in four neighborhoods in the southern end of Canada's oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta have been ordered out
May 14, 2024
The U.S. government has a specialized plane loaded with advanced sensors that the EPA brags is always ready to deploy within an hour of any kind of chemical disaster
May 14, 2024
A new study finds that the broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years
May 14, 2024
States could be in for another summer of unhealthy wildfire smoke as ‘zombie fires’ resurface in western Canada and more blazes break out in the dry conditions.
May 14, 2024
Storms that slammed several Southern states have added to the region’s recent string of weather-related destruction and death
May 14, 2024
Norway's $1.6 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, is falling short on its climate ambitions by failing to back multiple shareholder proposals pushing oil companies to
May 14, 2024
War is wreaking havoc on land, water and critical infrastructure in Ukraine and Gaza. Two experts on peace and conflict explain how to include such impacts in peace agreements.
May 14, 2024
Researchers around the world are racing to create large wind turbines and floating platforms as upcoming lease auctions bring offshore wind closer to reality
May 14, 2024
Sweltering heat in the Philippines can curb farm production,
May 14, 2024
A young man’s evil act and reckless choice to pour harsh chemicals into a fish tank has left the community of Reedsport, Oregon, shaken to its core. The senseless Chinook salmon hatchery vandalism has led to the tragic deaths of 18,000 juvenile Chinook salmon, dealing a devastating blow to local endeavors to protect this iconic Pacific Northwest species. Joshua Alexander Heckathorn, a 20-year-old residing in the nearby town of Gardiner, faces accusations of illegally entering the Winchester Bay Salmon Trout Enhancement Program (STEP) hatchery and purposefully emptying bleach into one of the rearing ponds, snuffing out thousands of pre-smolt Chinook
May 14, 2024
Federal energy regulators have approved a rule to expand the amount of renewable energy such as wind and solar power that is transmitted to the electric grid
May 13, 2024
Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted health warnings across the Upper Midwest for a second straight year
May 13, 2024
Water is everywhere, but freshwater supplies are limited on many Caribbean islands. Rising demand and climate change are worsening water shortages for the people who live here.
May 13, 2024
The end of oil is not in sight, OPEC's top official said, as the pace of energy demand growth means that alternatives cannot replace it at the needed scale, and the focus should be
May 13, 2024
Fire experts and officials are warning that an intense wildfire could reach a town in western Canada this week
May 13, 2024
Azerbaijan, host of this year's U.N. climate summit, will defend the right of oil and gas producing nations to invest in the sector, the country's president said on Friday, noting
May 12, 2024
Heavy rains and torrents of cold lava and mud flowing down a volcano's slopes on Indonesia’s Sumatra island have triggered flash floods
May 12, 2024
The controlled demolition of the largest remaining steel span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has been postponed because of weather conditions
May 12, 2024
China's largest auto show opened in Beijing with the biggest names showing off their latest electric vehicles (EVs), underlining how the world's largest auto market is already in
May 11, 2024
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green announced Wildfire Mitigation and Risk Reduction Preparedness Month nine months after the nation’s deadliest wildfire in over a century burned the historic town of Lahaina
May 10, 2024
Colombia's parks agency, the Frankfurt Zoological Society and German fund Legacy Landscapes on Thursday launched a financial mechanism to fund Chiribiquete
May 10, 2024
The Biden administration is planning to announce new tariffs on electric vehicles, semiconductors, solar equipment and medical supplies imported from China
May 10, 2024
A Taliban official says that flash floods from seasonal rains in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan have killed at least 50 people
May 10, 2024
Officials say a tractor-trailer hauling about 15 million bees to be used to pollinate blueberry fields crashed and overturned on Interstate 95 in Maine
May 10, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday announced final rules targeting carbon, air and water pollution from power plants that it says could cut
May 10, 2024
Toyota launched a public transport pilot on Thursday with nine fully electric Hilux Revo pickup trucks in Thailand, a key Southeast Asian
May 10, 2024
Two environmental activists have attacked a glass case containing an original copy of the Magna Carta at the British Library
May 10, 2024
Summer means road construction − but what kind of engineering goes into laying down pavement?
May 10, 2024
Hundreds of volunteers have set up a makeshift dog shelter in an abandoned, roofless warehouse in the Brazilian city of Canoas, one of the hardest hit by floods in southern Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state
May 10, 2024
Climate-focused investor Decarbonization Partners, a tie-up between BlackRock and Singaporean state investment firm Temasek, said on Thursday it had raised a higher-
May 10, 2024
Polish farmers have marched through downtown Warsaw to protest the European Union’s climate policies and to oppose the pro-EU government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk
May 10, 2024
Hawaii health officials say testing on west Maui residents shows no evidence of widespread lead exposure from last summer’s wildfires
May 10, 2024
The announcement of Sweetgreen salad chain that it’s adding beef to its menu led to strong reactions online, with customers questioning the company’s carbon neutral plans
May 09, 2024
Florida's largest power company is preparing for this year's hurricane season by pretending a major storm already hit
May 09, 2024
Two men who were instrumental in creating a global seed vault designed to safeguard the world’s agricultural diversity will be honored as the 2024 World Food Prize laureates
May 09, 2024
After a year of record-breaking global heat with El Niño, will La Niña bring a reprieve? That depends on where you live and how you feel about hurricanes.
May 09, 2024
About 44 million Americans live in cities or counties that received a failing grade for air quality, which has deteriorated to its worst in 25 years across a swath of the U.S
May 09, 2024
Japan’s Fisheries Agency has proposed expanding commercial whaling to fin whales, a larger species than the three allowed now
May 09, 2024
The Biden administration is racing to finalize a slew of major environmental regulations to help safeguard them from potential reversal should former President Donald Trump win the 2024
May 09, 2024
NASA is hoping that nations will work together more closely in the future on topics such as climate change, including greenhouse gas emissions, the
May 08, 2024
By most measures, the last thing China needs is more electric cars crowding a market with more losers than winners, driving down prices at the expense of profit and taking the
May 08, 2024
Tornado emergencies have been called in Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa and more states over the past few weeks during recent periods of severe weather
May 08, 2024
Ecuador is scoping out new debt-for-nature swaps, one to funnel funds into the Amazon rainforest and another for a giant ocean protection zone backed by Hollywood star
May 08, 2024
A German court on Tuesday handed down suspended eight-month prison sentences to three climate activists who sprayed orange paint on the columns of Berlin's
May 08, 2024
Distress about the Earth’s future is driving many young people to act
May 08, 2024
Countries are under pressure to make progress on a first-ever global plastics treaty this week, but they face tense negotiations in the Canadian capital with parties
May 08, 2024
(This April 22 story has been corrected to say that Exxon has one advanced recycling plant and is assessing opportunities in, not has, around a dozen advanced recycling projects, in paragraph 10) By
May 08, 2024
Severe storms are tearing through the central and southeast U.S., spawning damaging tornadoes, producing massive hail, and killing two people in Tennessee and another in North Carolina
May 08, 2024
The nation’s largest public utility is moving ahead with a plan for a new natural gas plant in Tennessee despite warnings that its environmental review of the project doesn’t comply with federal law
May 08, 2024
A record 30% of global electricity was generated from renewables in 2023, according to a report released by Ember, a think tank based in London
May 07, 2024
The Biden administration on Tuesday set a new goal to protect vast U.S. water sources, from rivers to wetlands, as part of a series of announcements marking Earth Week.
May 07, 2024
Asia was the world's most disaster-hit region by climate related hazards last year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, with floods and storms causing the highest
May 07, 2024
In a world growing increasingly accustomed to wild weather swings, the last few days and weeks have seemingly taken those environmental extremes to a new level
May 07, 2024
US cities are doing green infrastructure, but in bits and pieces. Today’s climate-driven floods require a much broader approach to create true sponge cities that are built to soak up water.
May 07, 2024
Kenya’s government has begun bulldozing homes built in flood-prone areas and promising evicted families the equivalent of $75 to relocate after a deadline passed to evacuate amid deadly rains
May 07, 2024
Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described for the first time the basic elements of how they might be talking to each other, in an effort that could one day help better protect them
May 07, 2024
More than 80% of residents in Brazil's southern city of Porto Alegre don't have running water one week after major flooding
May 07, 2024
The EU needs to rethink its policies to make a 2035 ban on new petrol car sales feasible as electric vehicles (EVs) remain unaffordable and alternative fuel options
May 07, 2024
Europe is increasingly facing bouts of heat so intense that the human body cannot cope, as climate change continues to raise temperatures, the EU's Copernicus
May 07, 2024
The Biden administration proposal to hike fuel economy standards through 2032 is not feasible and could cost automakers a total of more than $14 billion in
May 07, 2024
Ford Motor Co said the Biden administration's proposal to drastically hike fuel economy standards through 2032 threatens "substantial economic hardship."
May 07, 2024
YouTube is making millions of dollars a year from advertising on channels that make false claims about climate change because content creators are using new tactics that evade the social
May 07, 2024
Crop-killing weeds such as kochia are advancing across the U.S. northern plains and Midwest, in the latest sign that weeds are
May 07, 2024
A second, more powerful atmospheric river storm was headed for Southern California this weekend, threatening to unleash potentially life-threatening floods and
May 07, 2024
Two climate-change activists were due to appear in court on Thursday after they were arrested for throwing pink powder on glass cases displaying the U.S.
May 07, 2024
A man who was indicted in Montana for hunting and killing bald eagles, the national symbol of the U.S. that nearly went extinct, has agreed to plead guilty in a plea deal
May 07, 2024
Tornadoes touched down Monday evening in rural Oklahoma as large hail pelted parts of Kansas
May 06, 2024
In an interview with The Associated Press, the new head of Liberia's forest management authority, Rudolph Merab, said he would work to increase timber exports and cut regulations
May 06, 2024
Nanoplastics are the smallest microplastics, far narrower than a human hair. Very little is known about their composition, structure or how they break down in the environment.
May 06, 2024
Authorities in the region of Kurgan in Russia's Urals mountains ordered an evacuation from several districts on Saturday due to rising river levels, after large snowfalls melted and
May 06, 2024
Mexican presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum on Friday said that if elected, her administration would focus on water management and renewable energy as
May 06, 2024
A political push to raise the first-ever "Amazonia Bond" has ramped up during talks to agree a "roadmap", yet the
May 05, 2024
A weekend spring storm that drenched the San Francisco Bay area and closed Northern California mountain highways also set a single-day snowfall record in the Sierra Nevada
May 05, 2024
High waters flooded neighborhoods around Houston on Saturday following heavy rains that have already resulted in crews rescuing more than 400 people from homes, rooftops and roads engulfed in murky water
May 04, 2024
Kazakhstan braced on Friday for levels on the Ural River to rise sharply, something that could threaten two of its western regions and key oil infrastructure, while
May 04, 2024
Arizona’s new heat officer said Friday that he is working with local governments and nonprofit groups to open more cooling centers and ensure homes have working air conditioners in a more unified effort to prevent another ghastly toll of heat-related deaths this summer
May 03, 2024
San Francisco’s famed Fisherman’s Wharf district is seeing a surge in sea lions
May 03, 2024
A U.K. High Court judge has ruled that the government acted unlawfully when it approved a plan to meet climate targets without evidence it could be delivered
May 03, 2024
The Biden administration on Thursday finalized new measures to protect the health of U.S. public lands, including by leasing acreage for conservation in much the same way
May 03, 2024
Holtec International, which is in charge of decommissioning the Indian Point nuclear power plant in New York, on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the state over its rules regarding the
May 03, 2024
Latin American nations must be on high alert as the weather phenomenon known as El Nino rapidly switches over to La Nina, experts said on Thursday, leaving populations and
May 03, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva officially recognized two more Indigenous territories on Thursday, but said he decided not to sign off on four others because they
May 03, 2024
The world is producing more electronic waste than ever — 62 million metric tons in 2022
May 03, 2024
Ruins of a centuries-old town have emerged at a dam parched by drought in northern Philippines, giving residents a rare
May 03, 2024
French officials have inaugurated a huge storage basin meant to keep cleaner the River Seine, which is to be the venue for marathon swimming at the Paris Games and the swimming leg of the Olympic and Paralympic triathlons
May 02, 2024
A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday rejected a long-running lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists who argued that the U.S. government’s role in climate change violated their constitutional rights
May 02, 2024
Practices such as redlining left marginalized groups in more disaster-prone areas with poorer quality infrastructure − and more likely to experience prolonged power outages.
May 01, 2024
Mountain tourism brings revenues to Nepal but leaves a mess behind. Local and international groups are offering new cleanup strategies.
May 01, 2024
Lawsuits are inevitable, but an environmental lawyer explains why the EPA’s new power plant regulations are on solid ground.
May 01, 2024
A South African aquarium is stretched beyond capacity after more than 500 baby sea turtles were washed up on beaches by a rare and powerful storm and rescued by members of the public
May 01, 2024
Under pressure to cope with the impact of rising temperatures, Greece's emergency response planners are shifting tactics this summer
May 01, 2024
Authorities say one person died when a tornado ripped through the small northeastern Kansas city of Westmoreland and destroyed houses, RVs and outbuildings
May 01, 2024
The U.S. House voted to end federal protection for gray wolves in 48 states, though the bill's ultimate prospects are uncertain
April 30, 2024
The Biden administration is out with new guidelines for tax credits for producers of sustainable aviation fuel
April 30, 2024
New Jersey is seeking a new round of proposals to build wind energy farms off its coastline, forging ahead with its clean energy goals even as local opposition and challenging economics create blowback to the effort
April 30, 2024
The torrential rains and deadly floods that have hit Kenya since March have been some of the most catastrophic in the country in recent years
April 30, 2024
Two men charged with cutting down the beloved 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree have made their first appearances in a northern England courtroom
April 30, 2024
Energy and environment ministers of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations have committed to phase out coal power by 2035
April 30, 2024
Rain-swollen water levels at two Kenyan hydroelectric dams are at “historic highs” and people downstream are being told to move away
April 30, 2024
Nations finished a round of negotiations early Tuesday on a treaty to end plastic pollution and made more progress than they have in three prior meetings
April 30, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a ban on consumer uses of methylene chloride, a chemical widely used as a paint stripper but known to cause liver cancer and other health problems
April 30, 2024
A new study finds that last year’s snow deluge in California, which quickly erased a two decade long megadrought, was essentially a once-in-a-lifetime rescue from above
April 29, 2024
For the first time, negotiators from most of the world’s nations are discussing actual text for what is supposed to become a global treaty to end plastic pollution
April 29, 2024
A professor who helped save Europe's largest saltwater lagoon is one of this year's winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize, known as the “Green Nobel."
April 29, 2024
Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, has resigned rather than face a no-confidence vote just days after he torpedoed a coalition with the Green Party by ditching a target for fighting climate change
April 29, 2024
A data analysis shows Indonesia had a 27% increase in primary forest loss in 2023
April 29, 2024
A lab in a Dutch zoo has presented special corals that bred themselves and nestled them in Europe's largest coral reef
April 26, 2024
A fire engine arrived within five minutes of the first reports of a wildfire last August on the edge of Lahaina, the historic Hawaiian resort town, according to the most
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration is set to reject the construction of an access road to the Ambler mining district in northern Alaska, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing two people with
April 26, 2024
The World Bank and other multilateral development banks are making good progress on reforms to expand their lending capacity to help countries brace for climate
April 26, 2024
Emerging countries will pay a record $400 billion to service external debt this year, and nearly four dozen cannot spend the money they need for climate adaptation
April 26, 2024
Miner Piedmont Lithium said that it had received a long-delayed permit for starting the construction its lithium mine from North Carolina regulators in a further boost to the supplies of
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration on Thursday said the U.S. had surpassed a goal of permitting more than 25 gigawatts of clean energy projects on public lands by 2025 and finalized
April 26, 2024
Every year, around 10 to 15 sea otter pups are found stranded off the California coast, often due to storms that separate mother and
April 26, 2024
Virginia utility regulators on Friday approved new solar projects with a total of 764 MW electricity capacity that will expand Dominion Energy's clean energy portfolio in the U.S. state.
April 26, 2024
China has initiated dispute consultations with the United States regarding tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act to promote the production of electric vehicles and renewable
April 26, 2024
Almost half of the energy companies Citi lends to are lacking plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the fourth-largest U.S. bank said in a climate report released
April 26, 2024
Halted shipping traffic from the Port of Baltimore, the second-largest U.S. hub for coal exports, will slow the growth in U.S. coal exports and reduce bunker fuel use, the Energy
April 26, 2024
Over half of U.S. landfills observed by aerial surveys are super-emitting sources of methane, according to a new study in the journal Science published on
April 26, 2024
China's commerce minister will travel to Europe in April for discussions about the European Commission's investigation into whether China's electric vehicle industry has
April 26, 2024
The current low-carbon transition plans of 10 of Europe's and North America's biggest listed oil and gas companies are not good enough to assess the risks involved,
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration on Tuesday gave final approval to Orsted and Eversource's Sunrise Wind offshore wind facility, which is expected to provide power to more than 320,000 homes in New
April 26, 2024
The shipping industry is under increasing pressure to decarbonize, but unclear regulatory guidelines, including around what sorts of cleaner fuels large
April 26, 2024
A record 263 climate-related shareholder resolutions have been filed so far this year for annual meetings of North American companies, a new tally showed on Tuesday,
April 26, 2024
When environmentalists talk about climate change, it's typically in stark terms, describing it as a crisis that threatens the future of the planet.
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration says its recent decision to scale back new climate regulations meant to force emissions cuts from cars and power plants will have a
April 26, 2024
U.S. efforts to build a domestic supply chain for solar energy components is stalled and will require urgent government action to support the factories needed to compete
April 26, 2024
The U.S. must improve its mine permitting process if it hopes to boost domestic supplies of critical minerals to power the clean energy transition, the CEO of
April 26, 2024
Cooperation between the U.S. and China on methane is advancing, the deputy U.S. special envoy on climate change said on Tuesday, saying there was an opportunity for
April 26, 2024
India's main reservoirs have hit their lowest March levels in five years, government data showed, indicating a possible squeeze on drinking water and power availability this
April 26, 2024
Chrysler parent Stellantis and the state of California reached an agreement on emissions on Tuesday after the company unsuccessfully sought to join a deal
April 26, 2024
Investors will be asking companies for data on indirect greenhouse gas emissions that new U.S. financial disclosure rules exclude, the International Sustainability
April 26, 2024
New U.S. climate-disclosure regulations should boost demand for services of the Big Four accounting firms and more specialized reviewers, and could sharpen a rivalry between
April 26, 2024
A major environmental group has sued to challenge new rules issued by the U.S.
April 26, 2024
California needs to triple its annual carbon emissions reductions to meet its 2030 target, a report by consulting firm Beacon Economics and San Francisco-based think
April 26, 2024
Last October, an Idaho farmer using a backhoe punched a hole into a 22-inch (56-cm) pipeline buried under a field, sending more than 51 million cubic feet of natural gas
April 26, 2024
Partners Group is exploring options, including a sale, FOR German renewable energy company VSB Group, six sources
April 26, 2024
California, Arizona and Nevada on Wednesday offered what they described as significant concessions on how much Colorado River water they claim, as their counterparts
April 26, 2024
Mexico is waiting for the United States to prove imported genetically modified (GM) corn is safe for Mexicans, said Deputy Agriculture
April 26, 2024
Wall Street's top regulatory body was meeting on Wednesday to vote on rules that would force public companies to disclose certain climate-related risks, in first-of-its-kind
April 26, 2024
The United States is concerned about China's ability to flood the electric vehicle market but U.S. incentives can increase the affordability of domestically-made EVs, the U.S.
April 26, 2024
Four of the biggest U.S. banks including the country's biggest JPMorgan are no longer signatories to the Equator Principles, an industry benchmark for assessing environmental and
April 26, 2024
A United Nations-backed alliance of banks is proposing its members disclose more information on their commitments to tackle
April 26, 2024
A blizzard that dumped up to 10 feet (3 meters) of snow on the California mountains in recent days has pushed snowpack levels above average for the first time this year, a
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration’s decision to exclude the existing U.S. fleet of natural gas power plants from upcoming carbon emissions regulations raises
April 26, 2024
U.S. refiner Valero Energy Corp is joining Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions' proposed carbon-capture and storage project, the private company said on Monday.
April 26, 2024
A Norfolk Southern train derailed on Saturday, spilling diesel fuel and polypropylene plastic pellets into the Lehigh River in eastern Pennsylvania, police said.
April 26, 2024
A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled that the federal government may give away thousands of acres in Arizona to Rio Tinto Plc for a copper mine, upholding a previous ruling and rejecting a
April 26, 2024
Fire crews in the Texas Panhandle on Friday were dousing lingering hot spots after the state's largest wildfire on record
April 26, 2024
Invesco on Friday became the fifth major U.S. investor to exit or scale back their involvement with the Climate Action 100+ coalition of investors, which aims to
April 26, 2024
Chevron has indefinitely idled two biodiesel production facilities in the U.S. Midwest, the company confirmed on Friday, citing poor market conditions.
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration will delay the planned Friday announcement of its revised climate emissions model for ethanol due to disagreements, two sources
April 26, 2024
Wildfires raging in the Texas Panhandle have destroyed grain in storage bins and likely killed tens of thousands of livestock, state Agriculture Commissioner Sid
April 26, 2024
Fire crews on Thursday fought to contain a deadly wildfire that has burned more than 1 million acres (404,686 hectares)
April 26, 2024
Global energy majors Exxon Mobil and Shell will work with Singapore to develop a cross-border carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, both companies said on Friday.
April 26, 2024
The views of the Pacific Ocean from Alan Ashavi's cliff-top property are breathtaking, but underneath lurks a danger to the dream home he has been
April 26, 2024
Wall Street's top regulator is expected to vote soon to adopt far-reaching changes to the way thousands of U.S.-listed companies tell investors how climate change will
April 26, 2024
A group representing nearly all major automakers raised concerns about the feasibility of California's proposal adopted by 11 other states to require all new vehicles sold by
April 26, 2024
The U.S. environment regulator said on Tuesday it is launching new cleanup projects at 25 hazardous waste sites from New Jersey to Oregon with $1 billion in
April 26, 2024
Electrified vehicles including hybrids and fully electric are becoming more desirable than their gasoline counterparts, influential U.S. magazine Consumer Reports said on Tuesday, while
April 26, 2024
A Chilean environmental court partially reversed a permit allowing Google to build a data center in the country on Tuesday, asking the U.S. company to revise its application to
April 26, 2024
Some U.S. residents will be going from wearing Bermuda shorts to snow pants in less than 24 hours, forecasters said on Monday, as a heat wave in the central plains and South
April 26, 2024
Israeli battery technology company Addionics plans to build a $400 million U.S. factory to make copper anodes for electric vehicle batteries starting in 2027 to eventually
April 26, 2024
Medium-term global growth prospects are the weakest in decades, but G20 major economies could boost growth prospects if they work together to address climate
April 26, 2024
Franco-Italian automaker Stellantis wants to stick to the European Union's goal to effectively ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035, CEO Carlos Tavares said in an
April 26, 2024
Guyana will delay until 2025 its biggest effort to capitalize on its energy bounty, a $1.9 billion gas-to-power project that was to start this year, using
April 26, 2024
The White House will approve a request from a group of Midwest governors to allow year-round sales of gasoline with higher blends of ethanol, but
April 26, 2024
Canada has secured the surrender of the last remaining permits for oil and gas development off its Pacific Coast, the federal natural resources minister said on Wednesday,
April 26, 2024
Nine days after a slick was first spotted by Trinidad and Tobago's Coast Guard, an oil leak from a capsized barge remains unplugged, according to
April 26, 2024
A plan launched by New Mexico's Democratic governor at COP28 to use $100 million in state funds to buy treated brackish or wastewater from oil and gas
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration is poised to announce an adjustment to its scientific modeling for ethanol that will show the corn-based fuel to be less effective at reducing
April 26, 2024
Trinidad and Tobago is considering declaring an international emergency to deal with an oil spill that has stained miles of its shores and threatens to spread to its
April 26, 2024
Energy ministers, oil executives and green investors gathered this week to mark a half-century since the formation of the International Energy
April 26, 2024
A California agency has rejected Chrysler-parent Stellantis's bid to void a 2019 state emissions deal with rival automakers.
April 26, 2024
A pair of atmospheric rivers that drenched California in recent weeks will bolster the state's hydropower systems by filling reservoirs and building up snowpack
April 26, 2024
Barclays, Britain's biggest lender to the oil and gas industry, told Reuters it will stop direct financing of new oil and gas fields and restrict
April 26, 2024
The population of monarch butterflies in the Mexican forests where they spend the winter fell to the second-lowest figure on record this season, offering a
April 26, 2024
Utility firm Duke Energy missed fourth-quarter profit estimates on Thursday on higher interest expenses and raised its five-year capex by $8 billion to support its transition to renewable
April 26, 2024
The U.S. farm spending bill being negotiated by Congress must preserve funding for climate-friendly farming and federal food benefits to get Democrats' votes, according to
April 26, 2024
The atmospheric river that has inundated California is a mixed blessing, at once easing drought conditions and promoting threatened fish species while also nourishing the
April 26, 2024
A massive Pineapple Express storm - the second in recent days - stalled over Southern California on Monday, drenching the Los Angeles area with torrential rain, bringing near-hurricane-
April 26, 2024
More than 600,000 homes and businesses were still without power in California early on Monday, according to data from PowerOutage.us, after an atmospheric river storm pounded the state
April 26, 2024
A group of 25 California counties have sued Elon Musk's Tesla, claiming the electric vehicle maker mishandled hazardous waste at its facilities across the state.
April 26, 2024
Ford Motor said on Tuesday it would supply more than 1,000 F-150 Lightning and Mustang Mach-E electric vehicles (EVs) to Ecolab to replace the water treatment firm's gas-powered vehicles
April 26, 2024
It is the end of an era for Big Oil in California, as the most populous U.S. state divorces itself from fossil fuels in its fight against climate change.
April 26, 2024
Investors that use shareholder resolutions to pressure companies on environmental and social issues said they are worried that an Exxon Mobil lawsuit
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden paused pending approvals of exports from new liquefied natural gas projects on Friday, a move cheered by climate activists that could
April 26, 2024
An effort by Republican U.S. lawmakers to reallocate $18 billion in climate-friendly agriculture funding under President Joe Biden's signature climate law would
April 26, 2024
Exxon Mobil Corp on Sunday filed a complaint in a Texas court seeking to prevent a climate proposal by activist investors from going to a vote during the company's
April 26, 2024
The world is entering a "new economic regime" that will see company performance driven by how boards manage mega-trends including the transition to a low-carbon
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration on Wednesday unveiled a proposal for solar energy projects on federal lands that identifies 22 million acres in 11 western states best suited for development.
April 26, 2024
Wind and solar are set to lead U.S. power generation growth for the next two years following new renewable energy instillations, Energy Information Administration (
April 26, 2024
Developers of renewable energy projects selling unused U.S. tax credits to other companies now account for a market worth between $7 billion and $9 billion, buoyed
April 26, 2024
The NFL playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and visiting Pittsburgh Steelers has been postponed until Monday due to a winter storm, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said on Saturday.
April 26, 2024
Grid operator Southwest Power Pool on Thursday issued a cold weather advisory for its 14-state region in the central U.S., warning of extreme arctic temperatures
April 26, 2024
A judge in New York ruled on Wednesday that Danone must face a lawsuit challenging its "carbon neutral" claim on bottles of Evian spring water.
April 26, 2024
Union Pacific Corp said on Tuesday it anticipates a 24- to 48-hour delay in shipments as its rail network in some states has been impacted by heavy snow, blizzard conditions, ice and power
April 26, 2024
South Korea's Qcells on Monday said it will supply Microsoft with 12 gigawatts of American-made solar panels through 2032 in what the companies called one of the largest
April 26, 2024
If Republican frontrunner Donald Trump wins the 2024 U.S. election it could harm the global effort to fight climate change, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in an
April 26, 2024
The U.S. offshore wind industry is eying a brighter 2024, with work expected to start on several projects following a year marked by stalled developments and
April 26, 2024
The fuel efficiency of the U.S. new vehicle fleet hit a record high in 2022 with the highest yearly improvement in nine years to an average of 26 miles per gallon (mpg), as the
April 26, 2024
The chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee wants Congress to vote on reversing the Treasury Department's electric vehicle tax credit guidance, saying it will
April 26, 2024
Almost half of 217 global firms cut their business travel carbon emissions by at least 50% between 2019 and 2022, analysis published on Monday found, as
April 26, 2024
It is important to reduce carbon emissions to preserve the planet, but oil and natural gas should not be demonized in the medium-term, Elon Musk, the founder of electric car maker
April 26, 2024
California's utilities regulator on Thursday granted a five-year extension to operate Pacific Gas and Electric's Diablo Canyon power plant, the state's only nuclear facility, to avoid
April 26, 2024
U.S. federal employees should rent electric vehicles and opt for rail trips when feasible on government travel to sharply reduce emissions, the White House
April 26, 2024
The U.S. environment regulator does not sufficiently verify that carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects keep emissions trapped underground and should boost
April 26, 2024
Two men have been indicted in Montana for allegedly hunting and killing bald eagles, the once nearly extinct national symbol of the United States, and selling feathers and
April 26, 2024
Mexico's Nuevo Leon state approved $153 million in incentives for Tesla as the carmaker prepares to build a factory, the state government said in a statement on Thursday.
April 26, 2024
The COP28 climate summit in Dubai started with all the ingredients for spectacular failure: It proposed an end to the fossil-
April 26, 2024
Europe's electric vehicle (EV) sector risks falling behind without a robust EU industrial strategy, autos group ACEA said on Thursday citing new report findings, amid China's
April 26, 2024
General Motors' Cadillac said on Thursday it would launch a new electric crossover called Vistiq, bolstering the luxury brand's shift to a mostly electric lineup by 2030.
April 26, 2024
U.S. wireless carrier AT&T will purchase some electric vehicles from startup Rivian in a pilot program to evaluate ways to reduce cost, cut carbon emissions
April 26, 2024
The COP28 climate summit adopted a final deal on Wednesday that for the first time calls on nations to transition away from fossil fuels to avert the worst impacts of climate change.
April 26, 2024
Electric automaker Tesla has received land-use permits from Mexico's federal environment ministry to build a planned "gigafactory" in the northern border state
April 26, 2024
The Arctic experienced the warmest summer on record this year, contributing to extraordinary wildfires and melting glaciers while threatening the rest
April 26, 2024
The COP28 climate summit has generated a lot of words over the past two weeks and some clear favourites have emerged.
April 26, 2024
Negotiators at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai remained far apart on the future role of fossil fuels on Sunday as talks at the Dubai summit
April 26, 2024
The Republican-led House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to bar the Biden administration from moving forward with stringent vehicle emissions
April 26, 2024
There is plenty of hand-wringing on display at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai about the slow pace of reducing the consumption of fossil fuels to fight climate
April 26, 2024
U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry on Tuesday launched an
April 26, 2024
The global wind power sector will add less capacity in the next decade than previously expected due to financial trouble in the U.S. offshore wind industry and sluggish approval and
April 26, 2024
Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are set to hit a record high this year, exacerbating climate change and fuelling more destructive extreme
April 26, 2024
Ford's commercial unit will collaborate with utility firm Xcel Energy to install 30,000 electric vehicle (EV) charging ports across the U.S. by 2030, the companies said on Tuesday.
April 26, 2024
After two days of back-to-back speeches by world leaders, the COP28 climate summit turns its attention on Sunday to the reality of climate change fuelling more sickness and disease.
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration on Saturday unveiled final rules aimed at cracking down on U.S. oil and gas industry releases of methane, part of a global
April 26, 2024
Pope Francis said on Sunday that it was essential for all world religions to unite in opposing the "rapacious" devastation of the environment.
April 26, 2024
The United States will announce a $3 billion contribution to the Green Climate Fund, sources familiar with matter said on Saturday.
April 26, 2024
Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods on Saturday rejected the International Energy Agency's recent claim that using wide-scale carbon capture to fight climate change was an implausible "
April 26, 2024
Climate advocate and former U.S.
April 26, 2024
The world's top multilateral development banks are set to launch a global "task force" at the COP28 climate summit in the coming days to scale-up the number and size
April 26, 2024
Exxon Mobil Corp Chief Executive Darren Woods is making plans to attend the COP28 climate summit in Dubai next week, two people close to the
April 26, 2024
Chemours, Dupont De Nemours and Corteva have reached a settlement agreement with the U.S. state of Ohio for $110 million to resolve claims associated with toxic "forever chemicals", the
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration on Tuesday will auction off 35,000 acres (14,164 hectares) of land in Wyoming to oil and gas drillers, the first in a series of such sales that will coincide with
April 26, 2024
Britain came out on top when 21 teams from around the world gathered in Tokyo this week to collect litter in the inaugural SpoGomi World Cup, an initiative aimed at raising awareness
April 26, 2024
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday said it struck down the Biden administration's decision to deny small refiners "hardship waivers" that exempt them from nation's biofuel
April 26, 2024
Technologies that capture carbon dioxide emissions to keep them from the atmosphere are central to the climate strategies of many world governments as they seek to follow
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration announced on Tuesday it has opened up $2 billion in grants for lower-income communities overburdened by pollution and vulnerable to
April 26, 2024
The U.S. will lay out the first international strategy for commercializing nuclear fusion power at the upcoming UN climate summit in
April 26, 2024
Canada's government will present legislation this month to start paying subsidies for carbon capture and net-zero energy projects, a source with direct knowledge of
April 26, 2024
The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation members on Friday adopted new trade and investment principles that seek to boost environmental sustainability and social well-being
April 26, 2024
New York state sued PepsiCo on Wednesday, accusing the beverage and snack food giant of polluting the environment through its single-use plastic bottles, caps and wrappers.
April 26, 2024
BMW North America on Tuesday said it would expand its electric vehicle (EV) charging service, ChargeForward, to 48 states in the U.S., increasing its footprint in the electric mobility
April 26, 2024
The auto industry's drive to make electric vehicle motors with little to no rare earth content has hit high gear, with European, U.S. and
April 26, 2024
The U.S. drive to develop sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using ethanol could be slowed because of growing opposition to proposed pipelines
April 26, 2024
The United States and China have reached "understandings and agreements" on climate issues that will help ensure progress is made at the COP28 talks starting
April 26, 2024
Corporate loans whose costs are linked to environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals are being redesigned by banks in response to
April 26, 2024
Pope Francis will have nearly an entire day of bilateral meetings with world leaders attending the COP28 climate conference in Dubai next month, according
April 26, 2024
A highly anticipated speech by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at the International Monetary Fund was delayed on Thursday after climate protestors disrupted the event.
April 26, 2024
El Nino weather conditions will continue through the Northern Hemisphere during April-June 2024 with a 62% chance, a U.S. government weather forecaster said on Thursday.
April 26, 2024
Large parts of the U.S. and Canada power grid serving around 180 million people could be left without enough electricity during extreme cold again this winter, a group that sets North
April 26, 2024
Europe's biggest copper smelter Aurubis will invest around $700 million to build a smelter for complex recycling materials in North America, the company said on Wednesday.
April 26, 2024
A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld an injunction barring California from requiring businesses to warn consumers that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup weedkiller,
April 26, 2024
Danish energy firm Orsted's shock decision to cancel two offshore wind farms off New Jersey this week was based in large part on big delays securing the ship it needed to
April 26, 2024
Swiss-based sustainability group Better Cotton said on Thursday it has added new functions to a platform that big retailers use to trace materials through their supply
April 26, 2024
The United States' goal of rapidly ramping up production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) may encounter strong headwinds as producers balk at the low margins for the
April 26, 2024
China's veteran climate change envoy, Xie Zhenhua, is set to retire in December at the end of this year's COP28 climate talks in Dubai, a government official
April 26, 2024
A group of local U.S. government officials from 18 states on Tuesday urged the Environmental Protection Agency to phase out food waste disposal in landfills by 2040 to cut
April 26, 2024
The presidency of next month's COP28 climate summit and two renewable energy organisations on Monday urged governments to triple renewable
April 26, 2024
Electric utility Duke Energy said on Friday it would build a project to create clean energy using an end-to-end system to produce, store and combust 100% green hydrogen, in Florida.
April 26, 2024
SeaWorld San Diego has welcomed the hatching of an emperor penguin for the first time in 13 years, announcing on Wednesday that the female chick came out of its shell with help from zoo
April 26, 2024
The endangered red wolf, the lone wolf species native only to the United States, is slowly coming back thanks to a breeding and reintroduction
April 26, 2024
High interest rates are derailing the ambitions of climate regulators and automakers to accelerate the shift to electric vehicles, underscored Wednesday by the scrapping of
April 26, 2024
Emerging markets will need $1.5 trillion in investment before 2035 to make new and existing buildings environmentally friendly and avoid a jump in
April 26, 2024
California governor Gavin Newsom met Chinese president Xi Jinping on Wednesday to discuss climate change and other issues, Newsom told reporters.
April 26, 2024
Antarctica has not always been a desolate land of ice and snow. Earth's southernmost continent once was home to rivers and forests teeming with life.
April 26, 2024
More than 80% of ships are speeding through "go slow" zones set by environmental regulators along the U.S.
April 26, 2024
By Gloria Dickie LONDON - With climate warming leading to more air conditioning use worldwide, dozens of countries including China, India and the United States are being asked to commit to a global
April 26, 2024
California governor Gavin Newsom will visit China next week to discuss climate cooperation, promote bilateral economic development and tourism and encourage cultural exchanges, his office
April 26, 2024
By Gloria Dickie Hurricanes spinning across the Atlantic Ocean are now more than twice as likely to strengthen from a weak Category 1 storm to a major Category 3 hurricane in just 24 hours, new
April 26, 2024
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday said she will pursue electric vehicle (EV) tax credits and directed the state to transition to EV to achieve a zero-emission vehicle
April 26, 2024
The California Trucking Association (CTA) has asked a federal judge to stop a state rule that would require truckers to switch to zero-emissions vehicles by 2042, calling it "a
April 26, 2024
Amazon.com has 10,000 Rivian electric delivery vehicles making routes across the U.S.
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden will highlight clean-energy jobs created by his climate legislation on Monday while visiting a Colorado Congressional district represented by
April 26, 2024
Record debts, high interest rates, the costs of climate change, health and pension spending as populations age and fractious
April 26, 2024
The World Bank on Friday said it is bolstering collaboration with nine multilateral development banks (MDBs) to accelerate its vision of a liveable planet free of
April 26, 2024
World Bank president Ajay Banga on Friday laid out ambitious plans to widen the development lender's mission to include climate change and other global
April 26, 2024
New York regulators on Thursday denied requests by developers of offshore wind projects and dozens of land-based renewable projects seeking billions of dollars in additional funding for
April 26, 2024
California's new emissions laws could force companies to reveal more about their carbon footprint to the U.S.
April 26, 2024
Global economic losses could reach $5 trillion under a "plausible increase" in extreme weather events linked to climate change that cause crop failures and food and water shortages,
April 26, 2024
World Bank President Ajay Banga will come under pressure this week to focus on climate change, but the former Mastercard CEO first
April 26, 2024
Billions of people could struggle to survive in periods of deadly, humid heat within this century as temperatures rise, particularly in some of the world's largest
April 26, 2024
European Union leaders resolved on Friday to strengthen the bloc's competitiveness, be at the forefront of new green and digital technologies and reduce its
April 26, 2024
Pope Francis on Wednesday appealed to climate change deniers and foot-dragging politicians to have a change of heart, saying they cannot gloss over its
April 26, 2024
The United States and partners are working on 15 projects to secure supplies of critical minerals needed for electric vehicles and the energy transition, a senior U.S
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration proposal to hike fuel economy standards through 2032 would cost General Motors $6.5 billion in fuel economy fines and Chrysler parent Stellantis $3
April 26, 2024
Torrential downpours after a week of mostly steady rainfall triggered flash flooding in New York City on Friday, disrupting subway service in
April 26, 2024
Torrential downpours after a week of mostly steady rainfall that brought flash flooding to New York City on Friday was an impact of climate change and likely reflects a "
April 26, 2024
The agency that oversees one-fifth of U.S. lands said on Thursday that it had finalized plans to phase out single-use plastics in public spaces like national parks and wildlife refuges
April 26, 2024
A judge says a plan by federal agencies to rebuild the sardine population in the Pacific was not properly implemented and failed to prevent overfishing
April 25, 2024
The federal government plans to restore grizzly bears to an area of northwest and north-central Washington
April 25, 2024
A new report says circumstantial evidence points to climate change as worsening the deadly deluge that flooded Dubai and surroundings
April 25, 2024
For decades, big-box retailers have evaded federal regulation of the pollution their operations generate. But a new air emission rule in Southern California could become a model for state controls.
April 25, 2024
Scotland’s leader is facing a potential battle for survival after ending a three-year power-sharing agreement with the Scottish Green Party following a clash over climate change policies
April 25, 2024
A rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency would force power plants fueled by coal or natural gas to capture smokestack emissions or shut down
April 25, 2024
As Mexico’s drought drags on, angry subsistence farmers have begun taking direct action against thirsty avocado orchards and berry fields of commercial farms that are drying up streams in the mountains west of Mexico City
April 24, 2024
Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff’s office asking why they can hear sirens or a loud roar
April 23, 2024
Skies over southern Greece have turned an orange hue as dust clouds blown across the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa engulfed the Acropolis and other Athens landmarks
April 23, 2024
Dams holding vast amounts of uranium mine tailings above the fertile Fergana valley in Central Asia are unstable, threatening a possible Chernobyl-scale nuclear
April 23, 2024
Thousands of negotiators and observers representing most of the world’s nations are gathering in the Canadian city of Ottawa this week to craft a treaty to end the rapidly escalating problem of plastic pollution
April 23, 2024
The Biden administration has taken a significant step in its expedited environmental review of what could become the third lithium mine in the U.S. That's assuming it can withstand anticipated legal challenges from conservationists who fear it will lead to the extinction of an endangered Nevada wildflower near the California line
April 23, 2024
California will open its first new state park in a decade this summer
April 22, 2024
Thousands of Indigenous people are gathering in Brazil's capial for what is expected to become a protest against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's unfulfilled promises to create reserves and expel illegal miners and land-grabbers from their territories
April 22, 2024
A new report finds that the Mexican government has largely abandoned protection and enforcement measures for loggerhead sea turtles
April 22, 2024
Dozens of the children of Flint, Michigan's lead-contaminated water crisis have turned their trauma into advocacy 10 years after it began
April 22, 2024
From synthetic fabrics to car exhaust to wildfires, exposure to environmental pollutants push the skin microbiome to adapt in ways that reduce its ability to protect the skin.
April 22, 2024
President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants to provide residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities
April 22, 2024
Major rivers, waterways and reservoirs in China's Guangdong province are threatening to unleash dangerous floods, forcing the government on Sunday to
April 21, 2024
A Pakistani province has issued a flood alert because of glacial melting and is warning of a heavy loss of life if timely safety measures aren't undertaken
April 20, 2024
Federal wildlife officials have decided not to place lake sturgeon on the endangered species list, ensuring annual spearing seasons in Wisconsin and Michigan can continue
April 19, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency is allowing the sale of gasoline containing a higher blend of ethanol for the third summer in a row
April 19, 2024
The man who will run this year’s United Nations climate talks in November views the upcoming negotiations as a key link in international efforts to curb worsening global warming — if they can be successful
April 19, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency has designated two forever chemicals used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances
April 19, 2024
Wild turkeys were overhunted across the US through the early 1900s, but made a strong comeback. Now, though, numbers are declining again. Two ecologists parse the evidence and offer an explanation.
April 19, 2024
The Biden administration has finalized rules that would restrict new oil and gas leasing and development in portions of a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska that are considered particularly sensitive as the Arctic continues to warm
April 19, 2024
Street vendors in Mali’s capital of Bamako peddle water sachets, ubiquitous for this part of West Africa during the hottest months
April 19, 2024
The Biden administration is moving to let conservationists lease government land for restoration
April 18, 2024
Booming sales of cold drinks at Starbucks stores have created a problem: growing amounts of plastic waste from the single-use cups that Frappuccinos, Refreshers, cold brews and other iced drinks are served in
April 18, 2024
The last time that these two groups of cicadas emerged from underground together, Thomas Jefferson was president.
April 18, 2024
Indonesian authorities closed an international airport and residents left homes near an erupting volcano due to spreading ash, falling rocks and the possibility of a tsunami
April 18, 2024
The United Arab Emirates is struggling to recover from the heaviest recorded rainfall ever to hit the desert nation, as its main airport worked to restore normal operations even as floodwater still covered portions of major highways and roads
April 18, 2024
Officials are still trying to determine exactly what went wrong when the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century burned through a historic Hawaii town, more than a half-year after the disaster
April 18, 2024
A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 45% of U.S. adults say they have become more concerned about climate change over the past year
April 18, 2024
California regulators adopted a drinking water limit on toxic hexavalent chromium, a chemical compound made infamous by the movie “Erin Brockovich."
April 17, 2024
With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn’t really pour or flood — at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai
April 17, 2024
Twenty-three Republican attorneys general are attacking the Biden administration's stated goal of pursuing environmental justice
April 17, 2024
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S. These three slinky predators are genetically identical to a single animal frozen back in the 1980s
April 17, 2024
Indonesian authorities have issued a tsunami alert after eruptions at Ruang mountain sent ash thousands of feet high
April 17, 2024
A new study says climate change will reduce future global income by about 19% in the next 25 years compared to a fictional world that’s not warming, with the poorest areas and those least responsible for heat-trapping gases taking the biggest monetary hit
April 17, 2024
Filtering out PFAS is only the first step. These ‘forever chemicals’ still have to be destroyed, and there are many questions about how to do that safely.
April 17, 2024
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently ruled that it won’t approve energy projects on Native lands without tribal consent. But many more applications are pending.
April 17, 2024
When wildfires broke out across the Hawaiian island of Maui last August, some firefighters carried victims piggyback over downed power lines to safety and sheltered survivors inside their fire engines
April 17, 2024
Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the United States are slightly more likely than the overall adult population to believe in human-caused climate change
April 17, 2024
Plumbing problems at the dam holding back the second-largest reservoir in the U.S. are spurring concerns about future water delivery issues to Southwestern states supplied by the Colorado River
April 16, 2024
Ecuador has started to ration electricity in its main cities as a drought linked to the El Niño weather pattern depletes reservoirs and limits output at hydroelectric plants
April 16, 2024
The world installed 117 gigawatts of new wind power capacity in 2023, a 50% increase from the year before, making it the best year for new wind projects on record, according to a new report by the industry’s trade association
April 16, 2024
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that can leak from oil and gas wells, pipelines and landfills. Satellites can spot the releases fast enough to get them fixed and help protect the climate.
April 16, 2024
Greece aims to create two large marine parks as part of an $830 million program to protect biodiversity and marine ecosystems, with the plans to be formally announced at an international oceans conference starting in Athens Tuesday
April 16, 2024
Heavy rains have lashed the United Arab Emirates, flooding out portions of major highways and leaving vehicles abandoned on roadways across Dubai
April 16, 2024
The Maui Fire Department is expected to release a report Tuesday detailing how the agency responded to a series of wildfires that burned on the island during a windstorm last August
April 16, 2024
Wildlife experts are bringing butterflies back to the Presidio National Park in San Francisco as part of an effort to restore native ecosystems
April 15, 2024
The mayor of Colombia’s capital has announced new measures to reduce water consumption in the city of eight million people, where a drought associated with the El Niño weather pattern has already prompted officials to ration water in most neighborhoods and ask residents to change their showering habits
April 15, 2024
A stretch of the Ohio River near Pittsburgh remains closed to maritime traffic as crews equipped with sonar look for a barge believed to have sunk over the weekend
April 15, 2024
Reef scientists say coral reefs around the world are experiencing global bleaching for the fourth time due to prolonged warming of the oceans
April 15, 2024
A severe drought has pushed Colombia's capital to start rationing tap water
April 12, 2024
An orphaned killer whale stranded in a remote Vancouver Island lagoon is proving difficult for rescuers to catch
April 12, 2024
Oil and gas companies will have to pay more to drill on public lands and satisfy stronger requirements to clean up old or abandoned wells under a final rule from the Biden administration
April 12, 2024
Extreme downpours and droughts, both fueled by rising global temperatures, are taking a toll on water infrastructure. Communities trying to manage the threats face three big challenges.
April 12, 2024
When nature shows its wrath, it leaves an impact not only on the land but also on the hearts and lives of those who faced the storm. As we delve into the first-hand accounts of survivors who have stared into the eye of the storm, a common thread emerges a newfound awareness of the critical gaps in their readiness. Paul Sprela, a resident of Long Beach, New York, experienced the fury of a natural disaster during the Hurricane Sandy in 2012.His home and business were inundated, causing significant damage. Sprela, who works in flood insurance, learned a crucial lesson about
April 11, 2024
The Biden administration has approved construction of a deepwater oil export terminal off the Texas coast that would be the largest of its kind in the United States
April 11, 2024
The cement industry is one of the largest emitters of carbon dioxide and is responsible for some 8% of global emissions each year
April 11, 2024
The Biden administration is handing out almost $830 million in grants for 80 projects around the country aimed at toughening infrastructure against the extreme weather of climate change
April 11, 2024
Utah state officials are hurriedly trying to shore up a rural Utah dam after a 60-foot crack opened and sent water pouring into a creek and endangering the 1,700 residents of a downstream town
April 10, 2024
Rescuers on Wednesday were searching for a 30-foot-long gray whale with its tail entangled in a massive gill net last spotted off Northern California’s coast
April 10, 2024
These chemicals are now found on almost every part of the planet, including in the bodies of a large percentage of the American public. An environmental health scientist explains the risks.
April 10, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency announced new limits on certain types of PFAS chemicals in drinking water
April 10, 2024
Japan is giving the U.S. 250 new cherry trees to help replace the hundreds that will be ripped out this summer as construction crews work to repair the crumbling seawall around the capital Tidal Basin
April 10, 2024
The United Nations climate chief says humanity has only two years left “to save the world” by making dramatic changes in the way it spews heat-trapping emissions
April 10, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced its first-ever limits for several common types of PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances
April 10, 2024
More than 200 chemical plants nationwide must reduce toxic emissions likely to cause cancer under a new Environmental Protection Agency rule
April 09, 2024
Forecasters are warning that the potential for wildfires will be above normal in some areas across the United States over the coming months as temperatures rise and rain becomes sparse
April 09, 2024
Iran has released two conservationists who worked to save the endangered Asiatic cheetah before spending five years in prison on espionage charges
April 09, 2024
Europe’s highest human rights court will rule on a group of landmark climate change cases aimed at forcing countries to meet international obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
April 09, 2024
Cambodian authorities are investigating the abuse of monkeys at the famous Angkor UNESCO World Heritage Site
April 09, 2024
The European climate agency says Earth was record hot for the 10th consecutive month in March
April 09, 2024
A coastal scientist explains why marshes, mangroves and other wetlands can’t keep up with the effects of climate change, and how human infrastructure is making it harder for them to survive.
April 08, 2024
A new study shows how front yards can serve as windows into the inner lives of their residents – and their feelings about their home, neighborhood and city.
April 08, 2024
State media say Russia’s government has declared the situation in flood-hit areas in the Orenburg region a federal emergency
April 07, 2024
A raft of agreements between African countries and Dubai-based company Blue Carbon could give the company control over large swaths of land for conservation projects
April 07, 2024
It's been almost 25 years since federal authorities, responding to news reports of deaths and illnesses, descended on the small northwestern Montana town of Libby to clean it up
April 07, 2024
India's southern Andhra Pradesh state has become a positive example of the benefits of natural farming, a process of using organic matter as fertilizers and pesticides that makes crops more resilient to bad weather, and advocates say active government support is the primary driver for the state’s success
April 07, 2024
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is among dozens of people who have been detained by police in The Hague as they removed protesters who were partially blocking a road in the Dutch city
April 06, 2024
Floods caused by rising water levels in the Ural River broke a dam in a city near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan, forcing some 2,000 people to evacuate, local authorities said
April 06, 2024
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs last year, growing at near-record fast paces
April 05, 2024
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday said it would pause the implementation of its new climate disclosure rule while it defended the regulation in court
April 05, 2024
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday defended a new $20 billion federal “green bank” program
April 05, 2024
Snow showers are lingering as the cleanup begins following a major spring storm that brought heavy snow, rain and high winds to the Northeast
April 05, 2024
A beloved giraffe at a zoo in South Dakota has died
April 04, 2024
A study conducted in Brazil found that Yanomami people examined from nine villages have been contaminated with high levels of mercury
April 04, 2024
Pretty soon it will be beach season again at the Jersey Shore
April 04, 2024
As more storms approach California, officials have closed a scenic stretch of iconic Highway 1 where a giant section collapsed into the ocean
April 04, 2024
The big question: Would climate engineering like sending reflective particles into the stratosphere or brightening clouds help reduce the national security risks of climate change or make them worse?
April 04, 2024
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $20 billion in grants for clean energy projects combating climate change, including residential heat pumps, electric vehicle charging stations and community cooling centers
April 04, 2024
Senior finance and central bank officials from Southeast Asia and major economies are meeting in the scenic Laotian city of Luang Prabang to discuss ways to help the region build resilience against shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters brought on by climate change
April 04, 2024
Plans are underway to airlift a stranded killer whale calf out of a remote tidal lagoon off Canada's northern Vancouver Island in an effort to reunite the young orca with its extended family
April 03, 2024
An environmental group is challenging the U.S. Energy Department's decision to award over $1 billion to help keep California’s last nuclear power plant running beyond 2025
April 03, 2024
A $62 million project to dredge Puerto Rico’s biggest and most important seaport has started amid fierce opposition from environmentalists and a pending lawsuit
April 03, 2024
Zimbabwe’s president has declared a state of disaster over a devastating El Nino drought sweeping across much of southern Africa
April 03, 2024
Thai wildlife officials laid out a plan on Wednesday to bring peace to a central Thai city after at least a decade of human-monkey conflict
April 03, 2024
Officials say the aftermath of last year’s fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio doesn’t qualify as a public health emergency because widespread health problems and ongoing chemical exposures haven’t been documented
April 03, 2024
The Biden administration approved a new wind project off the Massachusetts coast Tuesday that is large enough it will provide more electricity than the state’s former coal-fired generating station
April 02, 2024
Thousands of homes and businesses were without power as severe weather roared through several states, causing at least one death and spawning possible tornados
April 02, 2024
Not all activists are in the media spotlight, but they’re crucial to promoting action to slow climate change.
April 02, 2024
New charts and data show how corporate demand could boost clean energy investment in regions where renewable energy potential is strong but wind and solar power have lagged.
April 02, 2024
Federal researchers indicate the gray whale population along the West Coast is showing signs of recovery five years after hundreds washed up dead on the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington state and Alaska, as well as Canada and Mexico
April 01, 2024
Motorists crept along one lane of a scenic stretch of California's iconic Highway 1 after a giant chunk of the highway collapsed into the ocean following heavy weekend rains
April 01, 2024
The periodical cicadas that are about to infest two parts of the United States aren’t just plentiful, they’re downright weird
April 01, 2024
It’s common to see solar panels on rooftops and fields, but they aren’t widespread on cars − yet.
April 01, 2024
Carbon capture is turning the oil and gas industry into a critical player for mitigating climate change – while its products continue to heat up the planet.
April 01, 2024
A new drought has left millions facing hunger in southern Africa as they experience the effects of extreme weather that scientists say is becoming more frequent and more damaging
March 31, 2024
The largest uranium producer in the United States is ramping up work at a mine less than 10 miles from the rim of the Grand Canyon
March 30, 2024
In Indonesia, environmental groups continue to point to deforestation and environmental degradation worsening the effects of natural disasters such as floods, landslides, drought and forest fires
March 30, 2024
Ontario’s Niagara Region has declared a state of emergency as it prepares to welcome up to a million visitors for the solar eclipse in early April
March 30, 2024
Wild horse advocates in Nevada have scored a rare legal victory
March 29, 2024
A new study says climate change is making giant heat waves crawl slower across the globe and they are baking more people for a longer time with higher temperatures over larger areas
March 29, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency has set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles
March 29, 2024
As authorities begin removing twisted wreckage from the the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, they’re confronting the potential for environmental fallout
March 29, 2024
Experts say rebuilding Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge could take anywhere from 18 months to several years
March 29, 2024
The largest crane on the Eastern Seaboard is arriving by barge so crews can begin removing the wreckage from the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse
March 29, 2024
A U.S. judge in Texas struck down a climate rule adopted by the Biden administration requiring states to measure and set declining targets
March 28, 2024
A nonprofit organization has sued the U.S. National Park Service over a plan to remove Puerto Rico’s famous stray cats from a historic district in the U.S. territory
March 28, 2024
Endangered smalltooth sawfish, marine creatures virtually unchanged for millions of years, are showing erratic behavior, spinning around and dying in unusual numbers in Florida waters
March 28, 2024
Georgia lawmakers have agreed to change a state law so that a private utility can provide water service to homes near Hyundai's upcoming electric vehicle plant without permission from local governments
March 28, 2024
The Biden administration has restored rules to protect imperiled plants and animals that had been rolled back back under former President Donald Trump
March 28, 2024
Electric vehicle charging ports are a key part of President Joe Biden’s effort to encourage drivers to move away from gasoline-powered cars and trucks that contribute to global warming, but only four states have them
March 28, 2024
A bridge engineering expert discusses the costs and limitations of building structures to withstand extreme events – and what it takes to prepare the next generation of civil engineers.
March 28, 2024
The coach of Oxford’s crew taking part in the Boat Race has described the pollution in London’s River Thames as a “national disgrace” as the company responsible for its upkeep faces mounting financial difficulties that critics say will need it to be taken back into state hands
March 28, 2024
The Biden administration has issued a final rule aimed at limiting methane leaks from oil and gas drilling on federal and tribal lands, its latest action to crack down on emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to global warming
March 27, 2024
Some companies planning to use new U.S. tax credits to deploy hydrogen projects urged the Treasury Department this week to ease proposed environmental
March 27, 2024
New York is on track to become the first U.S. city with congestion tolls on drivers entering its downtown
March 27, 2024
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is calling out China’s excess production in green energy, calling it unfair competition that “distorts global prices” and hurts companies and workers around the world
March 27, 2024
An environmentally themed mural by elusive street artist Banksy that appeared last week on a London street has been encased in plastic and surrounded by fencing after an apparent act of vandalism
March 27, 2024
A new United Nations report estimates that 19% of the food produced around the world went to waste in 2022
March 27, 2024
Southern California's Imperial Irrigation District supplies water to farmers who grow most of the nation’s winter vegetables
March 27, 2024
The Brazilian and the French presidents announced on Tuesday a plan to invest 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) on the Amazon, including its part in neighboring French Guiana
March 27, 2024
Top officials were gathering Tuesday in southern New Mexico to mark the 25th anniversary of the nation’s only underground repository for radioactive waste
March 26, 2024
The city of Berkeley, California, has agreed to halt enforcement of a ban on natural gas piping in new homes and buildings that was successfully opposed in court by the California Restaurant Association
March 26, 2024
The stunning collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge is diverting shipping and trucking around one of the busiest ports on America’s East Coast
March 26, 2024
A large suburban Philadelphia county has joined dozens of other local governments around the country in suing the oil industry, asserting that major oil producers systematically deceived the public about their role in accelerating global warming
March 26, 2024
The newest endangered baby gorilla at the London Zoo is more than six weeks old but doesn’t yet have a name
March 25, 2024
The world’s governments have agreed they want to triple renewable energy by 2030, a goal laid out at the U.N. climate summit in December
March 25, 2024
These are turbulent times for wind and solar energy
March 25, 2024
A major European Union plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc has been indefinitely postponed
March 25, 2024
The industrial sector is getting $6 billion in federal funding for projects that will slash planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, the largest-ever U.S. investment to decarbonize domestic industries
March 25, 2024
Nissan has announced plans to expand its electric vehicle lineup, develop more powerful batteries and cut production costs
March 25, 2024
Heavy rain and quarter-sized hail fell in Southern California as the National Weather Service predicted lightning and wind gusts approaching 60 mph in the mountain area Sunday
March 25, 2024
Hardy souls across New England were spending their Sunday shoveling out after a major storm dumped more than two feet of snow in some areas, causing multiple road accidents, downing power lines and leaving hundreds of thousands across the Northeast waiting for their electricity to be restored
March 24, 2024
The National Guard has joined in fighting wildfires that erupted this week in West Virginia
March 22, 2024
As global warming raises temperatures, a California work safety board has approved standards that would require companies to protect employees from excessive indoor heat, particularly in warehouses
March 22, 2024
Champions of organic farming have long portrayed it as friendlier to humans and the earth
March 22, 2024
Avian influenza is killing tens of thousands of seals and sea lions in different corners of the world, disrupting ecosystems and flummoxing scientists who don’t see a clear way to slow the devastating virus
March 22, 2024
Michigan attorneys have pressed a federal appellate panel in Cincinnati to move their lawsuit seeking to shut down a portion of an aging petroleum pipeline beneath the Straits of Mackinac from federal to state court
March 21, 2024
A study by an environmental scientist and the European Central Bank finds that food prices and overall inflation will rise as temperatures climb with climate change
March 21, 2024
Federal meteorologists predict that the United States can expect a nice spring break from past too rainy or too dry extremes
March 21, 2024
Over 30 leaders and delegations from around the world are backing the idea to use nuclear energy to help achieve the goal of a climate-neutral globe while giving more countries an added sense of economic and security independence
March 21, 2024
An expected long legal battle has begun over a new rule that requires companies to disclose some emissions and climate-related information
March 20, 2024
The Biden administration has announced new automobile emissions standards that officials call the most ambitious plan ever to cut planet-warming emissions from passenger vehicles
March 20, 2024
U.N. agencies have warned that waste from electronics is piling up worldwide while recycling rates remain low and are likely to fall even further
March 20, 2024
A Dutch court says the government has systematically put the interests of the aviation sector above those of people who live near Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport
March 20, 2024
A Washington state man accused of helping kill thousands of birds is expected to plead guilty to shooting eagles on an American Indian reservation in Montana and selling their feathers and body parts on the black market
March 20, 2024
Landslides occur around the world and have helped shape the Earth as we know it
March 20, 2024
Communities in southeast Alaska have long co-existed with landslide risks
March 20, 2024
Friday marks 10 years since the side of a mountain collapsed, raced across a river and buried an entire neighborhood in rural Washington state, killing 43 people in the nation’s worst landslide disaster
March 20, 2024
The Yurok Tribe will be getting back a slice of its ancestral land dotted with redwoods and a key creek for salmon spawning
March 19, 2024
BP’s sprawling oil refinery in northwest Indiana has resumed normal operations more than six weeks after a power outage prompted the energy giant to temporarily shut down the complex and evacuate workers
March 19, 2024
The state of New York is moving to update its fracking ban
March 19, 2024
The Biden administration this week is expected to announce new automobile emissions standards that relax proposed limits for three years but eventually reach the same strict standards proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency
March 19, 2024
The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice
March 19, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency has announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and that kills thousands of Americans every year
March 18, 2024
Bengaluru in southern India is witnessing an unusually hot February and March, and in the last few years, it has received little rainfall in part due to human-caused climate change
March 17, 2024
State environmental offiicals say an 11-foot alligator was seized from an upstate New York home where it was being kept illegally
March 15, 2024
France’s parliament has unanimously approved a pioneering bill to curb the environmental impact of fast fashion, marking a significant step towards sustainability in the global fashion industry
March 15, 2024
In the Arizona desert, a Danish company is building a massive solar farm that includes batteries that charge when the sun is shining and supply energy back to the electric grid when it’s not
March 15, 2024
When Frank Herbert sat down in 1963 to start writing ‘Dune,’ he wasn’t thinking about how to leave Earth behind. He was thinking about how to save it.
March 15, 2024
Once a glittering weekend getaway for wealthy residents of Mexico City, Valle de Bravo has been reduced to a shrinking muddy puddle by a combination of drought, water transfers to the capital, bad planning and lawlessness
March 14, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency is imposing stricter limits on a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment after finding a higher-than-expected cancer risk at facilities that use ethylene oxide to clean billions of devices including catheters and syringes
March 14, 2024
America's first commercial-scale offshore wind farm is officially open, a long-awaited moment that helps pave the way for a succession of large wind farms
March 14, 2024
The Interior Department will be allocating more than $120 million to tribal governments to fight the impacts of climate change
March 14, 2024
Public health officials in Arizona’s most populous county report they confirmed a staggering 645 heat-associated deaths last year
March 13, 2024
Federal prosecutors say a Montana rancher illegally used tissue and testicles from wild sheep that were killed by hunters in central Asia and the U.S. to breed “giant” sheep hybrids for sale to private hunting preserves in Texas
March 13, 2024
A Massachusetts beach community is scrambling after a weekend storm washed away nearly $600,000 worth of sand that had been trucked to protect the homes, roads and other infrastructure
March 13, 2024
A new study calculates that U.S. oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the government thinks
March 13, 2024
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is unveiling a plan to fight climate change
March 13, 2024
The head of the U.N. atomic agency has told local Japanese representatives at a meeting in Fukushima that the ongoing discharge of treated radioactive wastewater at the ruined nuclear power plant has met safety standards and that any restrictions on products from the region are not scientific
March 13, 2024
Employees of the Richmond Wildlife Center in Virginia are doing their best to act like mother foxes as they feed and care for an orphaned kit that found her way into their care
March 12, 2024
Advocates for some 200 wild horses roaming North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park are hoping a signal of support from Congress will prevent the removal of the beloved animals
March 12, 2024
The race for the White House isn't the only one with big stakes for climate policy
March 12, 2024
Students are provided the opportunity to use America’s national parks as case studies for environmental issues and tough conversations in this course.
March 12, 2024
Germany’s vice chancellor has launched a program initially worth up to 4 billion euros to help heavy industry shift to more climate-friendly production over a 15-year period
March 12, 2024
The head of the United Nations’ atomic agency is in Japan to examine discharges of treated radioactive wastewater from the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and to discuss further cooperation with Japan to promote peaceful use of nuclear energy and non-proliferation
March 12, 2024
A 14-foot-long white shark might not be something swimmers want to see at the beach
March 11, 2024
The U.S., Canada and several indigenous groups have agreed to address pollution from coal mining in British Columbia that's been contaminating waterways on both sides of the border for many years
March 11, 2024
Europe is facing growing climate risks and is unprepared
March 11, 2024
Florida wildlife officials say a sperm whale that became famous after beaching itself on a sandbar has died
March 11, 2024
Heat pumps that fit in an apartment window could make a big impact in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change
March 11, 2024
Sales growth of electric vehicles in the U.S. has started to slow, and polls show it’s due in part to anxiety over running out of battery power and too few charging stations
March 11, 2024
Japan is marking 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country’s northern coasts, killing nearly 20,000 people, wiping out whole towns and destroying the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
March 11, 2024
A religious procession in downtown Barcelona has celebrated the appearance of long-awaited rain after nine days of praying for relief from a severe drought
March 10, 2024
Once-lush fields lie barren
March 10, 2024
Local officials in Hawaii plan to open an office that will speed up Maui County’s notoriously slow processing of building permits to help the town of Lahaina to recover from last year’s deadly wildfire
March 09, 2024
New Mexico’s State Land Office will withhold lease sales indefinitely on its most promising tracts for oil and gas development in the Permian Basin as it seeks approval for the state Legislature to increase top-tier royalty rates
March 08, 2024
A federal judge has ruled that Norfolk Southern alone will be responsible for paying for the cleanup after last year's fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio
March 08, 2024
Electric truck maker Rivian says it's pausing construction of a $5 billion manufacturing plant in Georgia
March 07, 2024
The utility provider Xcel Energy says its facilities appeared have played a role in igniting a massive wildfire in the Texas Panhandle that grew to the largest blaze in state history
March 07, 2024
An unusually warm winter has left the Great Lakes all but devoid of ice and sent scientists scrambling to understand the possible consequences as climate change accelerates
March 07, 2024
Scientists calculate that for the ninth straight month Earth has obliterated global heat records
March 07, 2024
A study raises more questions than it answers about how tiny specks of plastic might affect the heart
March 06, 2024
Twenty-four Republican-led states have filed a lawsuit challenging a new Biden administration rule that sets tougher standards for deadly soot pollution
March 06, 2024
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to vote Wednesday on a rule that formalizes what companies have to report publicly about their greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks
March 06, 2024
The wild population of Mexican gray wolves in the southwestern U.S. is still growing
March 05, 2024
Tumbleweeds, the gnarled icon of the Old West, rolled in over the weekend and kept rolling until blanketing some homes and streets in suburban Salt Lake City
March 05, 2024
A federal agency is examining soil beneath homes in a small suburban St. Louis subdivision to determine if residents are living atop Cold War era nuclear contamination
March 05, 2024
Where the buffaloes roam can be a problem in South Africa
March 05, 2024
John Kerry feels he’s going out on a high note as he retires from leading U.S. efforts in international negotiations to confront ever-worsening climate change
March 04, 2024
Strong winds have spread flames and prompted at least one evacuation while airplanes dropped fire retardant over the northern Texas Panhandle as firefighters worked to stop the largest wildfire in state history
March 04, 2024
A volcano on an uninhabited island in the Galapagos has begun erupting and lighting up the nighttime sky as lava tumbles down its sides toward the sea
March 03, 2024
A deadly wildfire burned more than 2,000 buildings in the Hawaiian town of Lahaina on Maui in August and left behind piles of toxic debris
March 03, 2024
A vibrant fishing industry, some of the world’s largest coral reefs and desalination plants supplying millions with drinking water
March 02, 2024
Firefighters battling the largest wildfire in Texas history face increasingly difficult weather conditions
March 02, 2024
A powerful blizzard is dumping snow in the Sierra Nevada as gusty winds and heavy rain hit lower elevations
March 02, 2024
The only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition that first conquered Mount Everest says the world’s highest peak is too crowded and too dirty and the mountain is a god that needs to be respected
March 02, 2024
Native American groups have struggled with mining interests over a decade over Oak Flat, a piece of national forest land in central Arizona
March 02, 2024
An Apache group that has fought to protect land it considers sacred from a copper mining project in central Arizona has suffered a significant blow
March 02, 2024
Ranchers in the fire-scarred Texas Panhandle are facing a grim task of disposing possibly thousands of dead cattle killed by smoke and flames
March 01, 2024
New York City’s tradition of piling garbage bags on the sidewalk for pickup is going the way of the dinosaur
March 01, 2024
America’s lobster fishing business dipped in catch while grappling with challenges including a changing ocean environment and new rules designed to protect rare whales
March 01, 2024
Environmental activists are staging a protest in a forest near Berlin against plans to expand the grounds of electric car maker Tesla’s first plant in Europe and are vowing to stay in place for weeks
March 01, 2024
Up to 12 feet (3.66 m) of snow is forecast to fall in California's Sierra Nevada mountains through the weekend, as a one-two punch of dual brutal cold fronts slams into the
March 01, 2024
The largest wildfire in Texas history has killed two people and left behind a desolate landscape of scorched prairie, dead cattle and burned-out homes in the Texas Panhandle
March 01, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it is delaying planned rules for existing natural gas plants that emit harmful air pollutants and contribute to global warming
February 29, 2024
It’s cherry blossom season again, and officials in the nation's capital are predicting a banner year for the signature pink blooms
February 29, 2024
Hatch watch is underway in Southern California mountains
February 29, 2024
Zambia’s president Hakainde Hichilema has declared the country’s debilitating drought a national disaster and emergency
February 29, 2024
A new study says U.S. ski areas lost $5 billion from 2000 to 2019 as a result of human-caused climate change
February 29, 2024
A billionaire-backed proposal to build an eco-friendly California city from scratch is off to a bumpy start in qualifying its voter initiative for the Nov. 5 ballot
February 29, 2024
Forecasters say a Pacific storm packing powerful winds and heavy snow is headed for parts of Northern California
February 29, 2024
A cluster of wildfires is scorching the Texas Panhandle
February 29, 2024
The small town of Fritch is again picking through the rubble of a Texas wildfire, a decade after another destructive blaze burned hundreds of homes and left deep scars in the Panhandle community
February 29, 2024
A Native American tribe with one of the largest outstanding claims to water in the Colorado River basin is closing in on a settlement
February 29, 2024
Fast-food wrappers and packaging that contain so-called forever chemicals are no longer being sold in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration says the voluntary effort that began in 2020 between the agency and U.S. food manufacturers has been completed
February 28, 2024
Government scientists have cooked up a new concept for how to potentially cool an overheating Earth: Fiddle with the upper atmosphere to make it a bit drier
February 28, 2024
Wildfires raging in the Texas Panhandle have been growing at a staggering rate, resulting in widespread evacuations
February 28, 2024
A nuclear weapons facility was forced to evacuate most of its staff due to threats from a fast-moving wildfire blazing across the Texas Panhandle
February 28, 2024
Authorities say an offshore oil spill that prompted Trinidad and Tobago to declare a national emergency earlier this month has reached the shores of the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire hundreds of miles away
February 28, 2024
Local activists and international environmental groups want Nigeria’s government to delay approving the $2.4 billion sale of oil company Shell’s onshore assets
February 28, 2024
Severe thunderstorms with large hail and several possible tornadoes have toppled trees, taken down power lines and damaged homes in parts of the Great Lakes
February 28, 2024
A new UN report finds that the true global cost of producing food is $12.7 trillion more than consumers pay at the checkout counter. We pay those uncounted costs in other ways.
February 28, 2024
A small drone has flown inside one of the damaged reactors at the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in hopes it can examine some of the molten fuel debris in areas where earlier robots failed to reach
February 28, 2024
Rapidly expanding wildfires fueled by surging winds have prompted safety warnings for several towns and at least one evacuation order in the far northern Texas Panhandle
February 27, 2024
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is under investigation for allegedly harassing a humpback whale while riding a personal watercraft off Sao Paulo’s coast last year
February 27, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency says 25 toxic waste sites in 15 states will be cleaned up as part of a $1 billion infusion to the federal Superfund program
February 27, 2024
Wild fluctuations in temperatures are being recorded across much of the United States this week
February 27, 2024
A Washington state man accused of helping kill more than 3,000 birds including eagles on a Montana Indian reservation then illegally selling their feathers intends to plead guilty to federal criminal charges
February 27, 2024
A top court has ruled that two residents of the tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda have the right to challenge construction of an airstrip that critics say endangers fragile ecosystems and was begun without any permits
February 27, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration is announcing funding for 17 projects to expand renewable energy access on Native American reservations and in other rural areas
February 27, 2024
The European Union is on the brink of approving a major plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc after protests from farmers and opposition from the biggest party in parliament led it to be diluted
February 27, 2024
Southern California Edison will pay $80 million to settle claims on behalf of the U.S. Forest Service connected to a massive wildfire that destroyed more than a thousand homes and other structures in 2017
February 26, 2024
An Ohio commission has awarded bids to frack oil and gas under state parks despite statewide backlash and an ongoing investigation into possibly fraudulent support
February 26, 2024
Germany's vice chancellor says the country plans to enable underground carbon storage at offshore sites, pushing ahead with a much-discussed technology in an acknowledgement that time is running out to combat climate change
February 26, 2024
A warm front is sweeping springlike weather across a large swath of the country in what is usually one of the coldest months of the year
February 25, 2024
The Biden administration, leaders of four Columbia River Basin tribes and the governors of Oregon and Washington have signed papers formally launching a $1 billion plan to help recover depleted salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest
February 23, 2024
Kayakers have been paddling in one of the driest places on Earth after a series of storms battered California’s Death Valley and replenished Lake Manly
February 23, 2024
South Dakota's Legislature has made it easier for the city of Sioux Falls to find new homes for more than 150 taxidermy animals of its arsenic-contaminated collection
February 23, 2024
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has rejected several proposed hydropower projects on the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. The commission has also created a policy that essentially gives tribes veto power over such projects early on
February 23, 2024
A new study has concluded that former Hurricane Hilary was actually no longer a tropical storm but essentially had the same impact when its destructive remnants entered California last August
February 22, 2024
Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin have passed a bill that would unlock $125 million to fight so-called forever chemicals
February 22, 2024
Drivers in eight Midwestern states will be able to fuel up with a higher blend of ethanol throughout the year under a ruled finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency
February 22, 2024
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has set a target to further increase aquaculture production to meet rising demand for seafood and to fight global hunger and undernourishment
February 22, 2024
A whale as long as a train car that died after straying into a port in Osaka last month is set to be buried until it naturally becomes a skeletal specimen for a local museum
February 22, 2024
As the aviation sector seeks ways to make air travel less polluting and more sustainable, aerospace company Embraer and South Korean automaker Hyundai are among the companies betting on a new form of air travel -– air taxis
February 22, 2024
California's rainy season got off to a slow start but gained momentum with storms that have unleashed flooding and mudslides
February 22, 2024
India is renewing its push to add rooftop solar to meet the needs of a fast-growing nation that's hungry for energy
February 22, 2024
A U.S. appeals court has struck down a moratorium on coal leasing from federal lands
February 21, 2024
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears skeptical of the federal government’s argument that the Environmental Protection Agency should be allowed to continue enforcing its anti-air-pollution rule in 11 states
February 21, 2024
First, there were trackers on Taylor Swift and other celebrities’ private jet usage
February 21, 2024
What if plants in the area surrounding a nuclear reactor could act as radiation detectors, with the help of a drone?
February 21, 2024
Hundreds of farmers are driving their tractors towards central Madrid as part of ongoing protests against European Union and local farming policies
February 21, 2024
The U.S. Coast Guard is embarking on one of its most unique missions yet in Puget Sound: a pilot program to alert vessels of whale sightings
February 21, 2024
Maine's governor says a state-owned site on the coast of Maine will serve as the location of an offshore wind port critical to developing the nation’s first floating offshore wind power research array
February 20, 2024
Large parts of Appalachia’s forests, once owned by coal companies, now make money for investors by storing carbon. But the results bring few jobs or sizable investments for residents.
February 20, 2024
On a small, remote island in the Pacific Ocean, an unlikely predator feasts on the world’s largest albatross colony. Researchers are trying to figure out how to stop these murderous mice.
February 20, 2024
The Biden administration says it is distributing another $5.8 billion for water infrastructure projects around the country, paid for by one of its key legislative victories
February 20, 2024
The latest in a series of wet winter storms is gaining strength in California
February 19, 2024
The latest in a series of wet winter storms is blowing ashore in Northern California
February 18, 2024
Two years after California launched an effort to keep organic waste out of landfills, the state is behind on getting food recycling programs up and running
February 18, 2024
Federal authorities said the second critically endangered North Atlantic right whale found dead in the last month showed injuries consistent with a collision with a ship
February 17, 2024
Researchers are finding that record hot seawater killed more than three-quarters of human-cultivated coral that scientists had placed in the Florida Keys in recent years
February 16, 2024
A hot, dry summer on the heels of a wet winter raises the risk of wildfires.
February 16, 2024
As spring approaches each year, wildflowers erupt across Israel
February 16, 2024
Government scientists say a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale has been found dead off the coast of Georgia, marking the rare species' second fatality in the past month
February 15, 2024
Hard rock minerals like gold, silver, copper and lithium on public lands belong to the American public, but under a 150-year-old law, the US gives them away for free.
February 15, 2024
Conservationists in Kenya are celebrating as rhinos were returned to a grassy plateau that hasn’t seen them in decades
February 15, 2024
Scientists say the back-to-back storms that lashed the Northeast in January were more of a sign of things to come than an anomaly
February 15, 2024
Officials say the first tornadoes ever recorded in Wisconsin in the usually frigid month of February caused more than $2.4 million in damages
February 15, 2024
A team of scientists says extreme wind and rain may contribute to bigger and worse desert locust outbreaks
February 14, 2024
A nuclear power plant in Georgia has begun splitting atoms in the second of its two new reactors, in a key step toward providing carbon-free electricity
February 14, 2024
The United Nations chief is warning that climate chaos and food crises are increasing threats to global peace
February 14, 2024
The Biden administration says it's expanding a program to help rural communities with serious sewage problems get technical help to plan improvements and apply for funding
February 13, 2024
Two climate activists have targeted Botticelli’s masterpiece “The Birth of Venus” hanging at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, attaching images of recent flood damage in the Tuscany region on the protective glass
February 13, 2024
With Arctic sea ice shrinking from climate change, many polar bears have to shift their diets to land during parts of the summer
February 13, 2024
Lab-created diamonds come with sparkling claims: that they are ethically made by machines running on renewable energy
February 13, 2024
Cotton is one of the world’s largest crops and is harvested with large, heavy machines. Robotic harvesting could yield higher-quality cotton with less damage to plants and soil.
February 13, 2024
Phosphorus and nitrogen contribute to water pollution and cause harmful algal blooms. New research shows how mats of floating flower beds can take advantage of these nutrients while cleaning the water.
February 13, 2024
Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister says a large oil spill near the twin-island nation in the eastern Caribbean has caused a “national emergency.”
February 12, 2024
A new United Nations report says nearly half of the world's migratory species are in decline
February 12, 2024
President Joe Biden will travel to East Palestine, Ohio, about a year after a Norfolk Southern train derailed there and spilled a cocktail of hazardous chemicals
February 11, 2024
A company's plan to mine near the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp is nearing approval by Georgia regulators, despite conservationists' concerns that it could irreparably damage the swamp and its vast wildlife refuge
February 09, 2024
A volcanic eruption in southwestern Iceland appears to have subsided, though scientists are warning that the area may experience further eruptions in the coming months
February 09, 2024
Tradeoffs between strong growth and a healthy environment are not dominating the headlines in the runup to the Feb. 14 presidential election in Indonesia, the world's third-largest democracy
February 09, 2024
Federal wildlife officials have agreed to conduct a year-long review to determine whether a tiny snail found only in high-desert springs near a huge lithium mine being built along the Nevada-Oregon line should be listed as a threatened or endangered species
February 08, 2024
California would ban all plastic shopping bags in 2026 under a new bill in the state Legislature
February 08, 2024
A company’s plan in southeast Utah to extract lithium is adding to an anxiety familiar in this part of the arid American West: how the project could affect water from the Colorado River
February 08, 2024
The strong El Niño that started in 2023 will still have big impacts at least through March. Here’s what to watch for next.
February 08, 2024
On Feb. 7, 2024, the EPA strengthened the federal limit for annual levels of fine particulate air pollution, or PM2.5. Many serious health effects have been linked to PM2.5 exposure.
February 08, 2024
The European climate agency says for the eighth straight month in January, Earth was record hot
February 08, 2024
Over 500 mudslides
February 08, 2024
Experts say the number of monarch butterflies at wintering areas in Mexico dropped by 59% this year to the second lowest level since record keeping began
February 07, 2024
As Puerto Rico struggles with chronic power outages and a decaying electric grid, federal officials believe the U.S. territory that is heavily dependent on fossil fuels can fully shift to clean energy by 2050, according to a new study that has been two years in the making
February 07, 2024
Researchers tracked power outages after 8 major storms to see how wealth corresponded to recovery time.
February 07, 2024
The Biden administration is setting tougher standards for deadly soot pollution
February 07, 2024
Japanese officials say a pod of killer whales that was trapped in drift ice off the northern main island of Hokkaido, prompting concern from environmental groups, has apparently safely escaped
February 07, 2024
A storm that parked itself over Southern California for days, unleashing historic downpours that caused hundreds of landslides, is expected to move out of the region after one final drenching
February 07, 2024
When rainstorms like this week’s powerful atmospheric river hit California, the earth begins to move
February 06, 2024
The Postal Service says a mix of environmental initiatives and cost-cutting business practices are going to reduce its planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions by 40% over five years
February 06, 2024
An adorable, furry baby Hoffman’s two-toed sloth has made its debut at zoo in Florida
February 06, 2024
The signs that remind you to pick up after your pet are not just trying to keep public spaces clean; they’re urging you to help safeguard your community’s health.
February 06, 2024
Rainfall from one of the wettest storms in Southern California history is easing off but forecasters say floods are still possible and saturated ground raises the threat of potentially deadly landslides
February 06, 2024
It’s easy to forget that a river runs through the heart of Los Angeles
February 06, 2024
Weather and climate extremes, such as wildfires, drought and flooding, are taking a toll around the world
February 05, 2024
A handful of super powerful tropical cyclones in the last decade has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6
February 05, 2024
At least 112 people have been killed by wildfires in central Chile
February 05, 2024
A handful of centuries-old sponges from the Caribbean are causing some scientists to theorize that human-caused climate change began sooner and has warmed the world nearly a degree Fahrenheit more than most scientists previously thought
February 05, 2024
Volunteers in central Chile are trying to remove charred metal, broken glass and other debris in neighborhoods destroyed by forest fires that have killed at least 122 people in densely populated areas over the past three days
February 05, 2024
The second of back-to-back atmospheric rivers churned through California, flooding roads, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands and leading forecasters to warn of possible hurricane-force winds and mudslides
February 05, 2024
Powerful winds and heavy rain are expected to hammer the Central Coast of California, as a second atmospheric river in days threatens to soak the state and cause flooding and mudslides
February 04, 2024
Parisians are voting whether to muscle SUVs off the French capital’s streets by making them much more expensive to park
February 04, 2024
Officials say intense forest fires burning around a densely populated area of central Chile have left at least 19 people dead and destroyed about 1,100 homes
February 03, 2024
Federal wildlife officials have decided not to extend protections to wolves across portions of six states, allowing hunting to continue in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming
February 02, 2024
Extreme heat and wildfire smoke on their own are harmful to the human body, but the combination of both increases damage to people’s hearts and respiratory systems, according to a study released Friday
February 02, 2024
A judge has acquitted climate activist Greta Thunberg of a charge that she had refused follow a police order to leave a protest that blocked the entrance to a major oil and gas industry conference in London last year
February 02, 2024
Scrutiny over Taylor Swift’s travel in private jets has been bubbling up online, with people pointing out the planet-warming emissions that are let off with each flight
February 02, 2024
A group of residents of towns near Japanese nuclear plants has submitted a petition asking regulators to halt safety screening for the restart of idled reactors until damage to a plant that partially lost external power and spilled radioactive water during a recent powerful earthquake is fully examined
February 02, 2024
The United Nations' climate chief says to keep Earth from overheating too much, the nations of the world need to put fewer loopholes in climate agreements and far more money — trillions of dollars a year — into financial help for poor nations
February 02, 2024
With international climate talks failing to make progress fast enough, activists are shifting their emphasis to local battles − in the streets, political arenas and courtrooms.
February 02, 2024
Much of Alaska has plunged into a deep freeze, with temperatures colder than minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit in recent days in some places
February 02, 2024
Daily life largely returned to normal for the nearly 5,000 residents of East Palestine, Ohio, months after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and spilled a cocktail of hazardous chemicals that caught fire a year ago
February 02, 2024
Rising seas and frequent storms are taking their toll on California's iconic public piers and raising questions about the future of the landmarks
February 02, 2024
The storm that pummeled California this week was fueled by an atmospheric river, a plume of moisture that extended over the Pacific to near Hawaii
February 01, 2024
Warm weather has forced the federal officials to suspend the annual wolf-moose count in Isle Royale National Park for the first time in more than six decades
February 01, 2024
The National Hurricane Center will add inland predictions to its forecast of the location and ferocity of tropical storms
February 01, 2024
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is on trial for protesting outside a major oil and gas industry conference in London last year
February 01, 2024
Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia has declared a drought emergency for the area of some 6 million people including the city of Barcelona
February 01, 2024
The first of two back-to-back atmospheric rivers is drenching Northern California
February 01, 2024
The first of two back-to-back atmospheric rivers is pushing into California, triggering statewide storm preparations and calls for people to get ready for potential flooding, heavy snow and damaging winds
January 31, 2024
White House senior adviser John Podesta will replace John Kerry as U.S. special climate change envoy, according to a person familiar with the appointment
January 31, 2024
A large study ties contaminated drinking water at North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune to an expanded range of cancers
January 31, 2024
A new study shows the return of sea otters and their voracious appetites has helped rescue a section of California marshland
January 31, 2024
The death of a protester in 2023 at the site of the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center has brought renewed attention to radical environmentalism in the United States.
January 31, 2024
Driving an electric vehicle during winter is different from driving a gas- or diesel-powered vehicle
January 31, 2024
Floridians could soon be able to kill bears threatening them on their property with no consequences — if they don’t bait or provoke them first or turn them into a meal or a living room rug later
January 30, 2024
Researchers say the number of western monarch butterflies overwintering in California dropped by 30% last year, likely due to how wet it was
January 30, 2024
Farmers have captured France’s attention by showering government offices with manure and snarling Parisian traffic with barricades of tractors and hay bales
January 30, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency will pair artists with federal officials overseeing treasured bodies of water in the United States as part of a new initiative to use arts and culture to support water restoration and climate resiliency
January 30, 2024
Many scientists have long assumed that moths and other flying insects were simply drawn to bright lights
January 30, 2024
A new study shows how artificial light at night scrambles insects’ normal flight patterns, pulling them off course into orbit around the light.
January 30, 2024
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pledging to fast-track more than half a dozen projects to remove or bypass dams that have blocked salmon
January 30, 2024
These giant rivers in the sky are bringing more intense rainfall as the planet warms.
January 30, 2024
The U.N.’s weather agency has confirmed a reading of 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 degrees Fahrenheit) in Sicily two years ago as the hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe
January 30, 2024
Even by Alaska standards, there's a lot of snow this winter
January 30, 2024
A group of climate activists who infuriated many in Germany by gluing themselves to streets to block traffic says it will abandon the tactic and move on to holding what it calls “disobedient assemblies.”
January 29, 2024
Green plants produce a specific gas when under attack to both directly ward off herbivores and pathogens and indirectly lure in herbivore predators.
January 29, 2024
Two climate activists have hurled soup at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris and shouted slogans advocating for a sustainable food system
January 28, 2024
Two climate activists have hurled soup at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris and shouted slogans advocating for a sustainable food system
January 28, 2024
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has joined a march in southern England to protest the use of private jets and the expansion of an airport
January 27, 2024
Since catastrophic flooding hit Vermont in July and upended plantings, some farmers are trying to figure out how to get to the next season
January 26, 2024
Authorities in Denmark are working against the clock to stop a slow-moving landslide of contaminated soil from reaching a nearby water source
January 26, 2024
For years, John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua were the two most important people working on global warming
January 26, 2024
Officials say scores of sea turtles stunned by cold temperatures along the North Carolina coast have died
January 25, 2024
Two federal agencies are looking to better protect endangered whales amid a surge in offshore wind farm development
January 25, 2024
Colombia’s government has issued a disaster declaration and requested help from the international community to combat raging wildfires affecting the South American country
January 25, 2024
A 350-pound black bear is dead months after captivating a northern Michigan neighborhood in May by perching in a tree
January 25, 2024
A group of more than 4,700 auto dealers in the United States have sent a letter to President Joe Biden, urging the president to halt regulators' efforts to require cars to emit less pollution
January 25, 2024
As the climate changes and weather warms, the freezing line is shifting, bringing rain and ice to regions not prepared for it.
January 25, 2024
Land subsidence is a factor as preparations are made for rising sea levels and strengthening storms. Human infrastructure, including buildings and groundwater extraction, increases vulnerabilities.
January 25, 2024
A rhinoceros is pregnant through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that conservationists said could be used to try to save the nearly extinct northern white rhino subspecies
January 25, 2024
In the age-old battle of man versus nature, nature usually wins
January 25, 2024
A new lawsuit says opening a spillway as a flood-control measure in 2019 sent polluted fresh water from the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico and killed bottlenose dolphins that live in saltwater
January 24, 2024
The company seeking permits to mine minerals just outside the Okefenokee Swamp's vast wildlife refuge has agreed to pay a $20,000 fine to Georgia environmental regulators
January 24, 2024
Human-induced global warming, and not El Niño, was the primary driver of the severe drought in the Amazon last year that sent rivers to record lows, isolated hundreds of river communities and killed dozens of endangered dolphins
January 24, 2024
Rapid and accelerating groundwater level declines are widespread in dry climates where groundwater is used for irrigation. But some communities have found ways to turn things around.
January 24, 2024
The groundwater that supplies farms, homes, industries and cities is being depleted across the world
January 24, 2024
An Oregon jury has awarded $85 million to nine victims of wildfires that ravaged the state in 2020
January 24, 2024
Billionaire businessman-environmentalist Tom Steyer has a book out this spring that combines personal and professional stories with a message on how to battle climate change
January 24, 2024
A science-oriented advocacy group has announced that their famous “Doomsday Clock” will remain at just 90 seconds before midnight for a second year as several existential threats endanger life on Earth
January 23, 2024
Scientists have spotted previously unknown colonies of emperor penguins in new satellite imagery
January 23, 2024
Flash floods that raged through parts of San Diego were spawned by a torrential storm that produced the city’s fourth-wettest day on record, in stark contrast to its image as a balmy seaside playground
January 23, 2024
The recent blast of cold weather has given alligators a chance to show off their way of coping with freezing temperatures
January 23, 2024
Microplastic pollution is a growing problem − one lab is looking at tiny insects as inspiration for how these pollutants might move through water.
January 22, 2024
A study of dozens of city gardens and urban farms across the US and Europe found several ways to boost their benefits, not just for their neighborhoods, but for the planet.
January 22, 2024
The EPA’s newest assessment of water quality and nutrient pollution in U.S. rivers and streams shows almost no progress on cutting the nitrogen pollution that comes primarily from farm chemical runoff
January 21, 2024
Winter storms and biting cold that have gripped much of the United States in recent days with deadly consequences are expected to persist through this weekend, the National
January 20, 2024
Sarah Nance uses geologic data and a variety of artistic media to help people think about their place in the landscapes they use and occupy.
January 19, 2024
President Biden has called for protecting large, old trees from logging, but many of them could be cut while the regulatory process grinds forward.
January 19, 2024
The federal agency in charge of emergency management is changing its program that helps those who survive wildfires, hurricanes and other natural disasters
January 19, 2024
A California judge has ruled that the state does not have permission to borrow billions of dollars for a water project
January 18, 2024
A new layer of ice has formed over parts of Tennessee just days after a deadly snowy, frigid storm, as bitterly cold weather continued impacting the U.S. from Oregon to the Northeast
January 18, 2024
Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. coast
January 18, 2024
Artificial reefs are structures that humans put in place underwater that create habitat for sea life. A new study shows for the first time how much of the US ocean floor they cover.
January 18, 2024
Hawaii lawmakers are opening a new session of the state Legislature vowing to address glaring problems laid bare by the deadly wildfire that destroyed the historic town of Lahaina in August
January 18, 2024
A severe drought that began last year has forced authorities to slash ship crossings by 36% in the Panama Canal, one of the world’s most important trade routes
January 18, 2024
For nearly a week, frigid temperatures from Chicago to northern Texas have made life difficult for electric-vehicle drivers
January 17, 2024
The world can expect fewer severe cold events as average temperatures rise, but people still need to be prepared for wintery blasts.
January 17, 2024
The Defense Department will install solar panels on the Pentagon as part of a Biden administration plan to promote energy conservation and clean energy
January 17, 2024
Iceland, Hawaii and Italy have all tried to control lava to save cities in the past. A volcanologist explains the methods.
January 17, 2024
Sacred forests may be large woodlands, smaller groves or even grasslands that are revered by different faith traditions
January 17, 2024
The northeast Indian state of Meghalaya is home to more than 125 sacred forests
January 17, 2024
Mauritius has lifted its highest storm alert and eased a nationwide curfew after a cyclone battered the Indian Ocean island and nearby French island of Reunion
January 16, 2024
Kenya has embarked on its biggest rhino relocation project and has begun the difficult work of tracking, darting and moving 21 of the critically endangered beasts to a new home
January 16, 2024
A survey of Miami-Dade residents found bipartisan support for protecting Biscayne Bay − though most locals were not aware of the extent of its decline in recent years.
January 16, 2024
A tropical cyclone has caused heavy flooding and at least one death in Mauritius as cars were washed away by surges of water in the Indian Ocean island’s capital city and other places
January 15, 2024
Iceland’s president says the country is battling “tremendous forces of nature” after molten lava from a volcano consumed several houses in the evacuated town of Grindavik
January 15, 2024
A volcano has erupted in southwestern Iceland for the second time in less than a month, sending semi-molten rock spewing toward a nearby settlement
January 14, 2024
Hawaii lawmakers are due to convene this week for the first time since the burning of historic Lahaina awakened the state to the deadly and costly threat posed by wildfires in an age of climate change
January 14, 2024
More than a dozen states have given themselves the power to override local zoning restrictions that block large-scale renewable energy projects
January 14, 2024
John Kerry, the U.S. special envoy on climate, is stepping down from the Biden administration in the coming weeks
January 13, 2024
A prolonged dry spell is sweeping across the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir during the harshest phase of winter, leaving many people sick and farmers worried about impending water shortages
January 13, 2024
Icy winter weather is blanketing the U.S. as a wave of Arctic storms threatens to break low-temperature records in the heartland and spread cold and snow from coast to coast
January 13, 2024
Oil and natural gas companies would have to pay a fee for methane emissions that exceed certain levels under a new rule proposed by the Biden administration
January 12, 2024
The Mississippi State Health Department says Jackson's water is safe to consume
January 12, 2024
The latest calculations from several science agencies showing Earth obliterated global heat records last year may seem scary
January 12, 2024
Your washing machine is polluting the ocean.
January 12, 2024
The combination of the source of the CO₂ and its end use determines its environmental and economic benefits or consequences.
January 12, 2024
A second avalanche has been reported at a California resort near Lake Tahoe, one day after a major avalanche roared down an adjoining mountain, trapping several people and killing a 66-year-old man
January 11, 2024
Tons of garbage floats down a river at least twice a year and ends up near the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad behind a barrier installed by a local hydroelectric plant
January 11, 2024
A new initiative is pinpointing areas in the world’s oceans that are key habitats for sharks and their relatives, so that governments can consider protecting these areas.
January 11, 2024
The Biden administration is awarding $623 million in grants to help build an electric vehicle charging network across the nation
January 11, 2024
The amount of renewable energy installed around the world last year grew at its fastest rate in the past 25 years
January 11, 2024
An avalanche has roared through a section of expert trails at a California ski resort near Lake Tahoe
January 10, 2024
Engine maker Cummins Inc. will recall 600,000 Ram trucks as part of a settlement with federal and California authorities that also requires the company to remedy environmental damage caused by illegal software that let it skirt diesel emissions tests
January 10, 2024
Areas across the globe have seen spring snowpack shrink over the last 40 years, and a new study says for many of them climate change is clearly to blame
January 10, 2024
A study suggests an ancient species of great ape was likely driven to extinction by environmental changes
January 10, 2024
At one time, perhaps as many as 2 million gray wolves roamed the North American continent. But now those numbers are down to a few thousand.
January 10, 2024
Pakistan’s prime minister has called for unified efforts to tackle global infectious diseases like COVID-19 and emergencies caused by climate change, nearly 1 1/2-year after devastating floods killed 1,700 people in his nation
January 10, 2024
A new report says climate-altering pollution from greenhouse gases declined by nearly 2% in the United States in 2023, even as the economy expanded at a faster clip
January 10, 2024
While electric vehicles are gaining the lion’s share of the attention for carbon-neutral technology at CES 2024, hydrogen energy has snuck its way back into the conversation thanks to two automotive giants
January 10, 2024
The shattering of global annual heat records last year is prompting people to ask: what can be done
January 09, 2024
An atmospheric scientist explains how rising temperatures are helping to fuel extreme storms, floods, droughts and devastating wildfires.
January 09, 2024
Serbian authorities have started evacuating nearly 200 animals that have been stranded on a river island for weeks and were facing hunger and cold as temperatures dropped
January 09, 2024
Earth shattered global annual heat records last year and it's flirting with the warming threshold that nations wanted to stay within to avoid the worst consequences of climate change
January 09, 2024
One of the world's largest renewable energy developers will be getting hundreds of wind turbines from General Electric business GE Vernova as part of a record equipment order and long-term service deal
January 09, 2024
Countless tiny plastic pellets are washing up on the shores of northern Spain and local authorities have declared an environmental emergency after a shipping container fell off a transport vessel last month
January 09, 2024
Four people have been charged over an alleged plot to smuggle hundreds of Australian native reptiles from Sydney to Hong Kong
January 09, 2024
A federal judge in Montana has issued an arrest warrant for a man accused of killing thousands of birds, including bald and golden eagles, after he failed to show up for an initial court appearance
January 08, 2024
New research shows that the average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics
January 08, 2024
The Supreme Court has rejected Alaska’s bid to revive a proposed copper and gold mine that was blocked by the Environmental Protection Agency
January 08, 2024
There are so many fish in the ocean that if you took them out, important habitats and food sources for many creatures would be lost.
January 08, 2024
The United Arab Emirates has acknowledged it is conducting a mass trial of 84 inmates previously reported by dissidents as it hosted the United Nations COP28 climate talks last month
January 06, 2024
Azerbaijan’s ecology minister has been named to lead the United Nations’ annual climate talks later this year
January 05, 2024
These tiny songbirds have extraordinary memories for the tens of thousands of spots where they hide food. But that doesn’t help when heavy snow blocks their access.
January 04, 2024
A bill to ban oil and gas production within a mile (1.6 kilometers) of schools and day care centers across New Mexico is among the first published proposals as the state Legislature prepares for a 30-day session that could bring an overhaul to fundamental oil and gas regulations
January 04, 2024
A new study reveals that 75% of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are hidden from public view.
January 03, 2024
For the first time in the United States, turbines are sending electricity to the grid from the sites of two large offshore wind farms
January 03, 2024
Redwoods grow in networks that house unique communities of plants and animals high in the air. They offer life lessons about adapting over time.
January 03, 2024
A salt patch on the island of Kauai is one of the last remaining in all of Hawaii
January 03, 2024
Temperatures have fallen below minus 40 degrees Celsius in the Nordic region for a second day in a row, with the coldest January temperature recorded in Swedish Lapland in 25 years
January 03, 2024
Klee Benally, a Navajo man who advocated on behalf of Indigenous people and environmental causes, has died
January 01, 2024
The U.S. Coast Guard says a lithium-ion battery fire on a cargo ship is out after days of burning off the coast of Alaska
December 31, 2023
Southern California's Ventura County issued a temporary evacuation warning for some residents living along the coast due to high surf
December 31, 2023
Bulldozers have built giant sand berms to protect beachfront homes in one of the California coastal cities hit hard this week by extraordinary waves generated by powerful swells from Pacific storms
December 29, 2023
Documents show the risks toxic substances posed in the underground capsules and silos where Air Force nuclear missile crews have worked since the 1960s
December 29, 2023
The Biden administration is granting Louisiana's request to administer its own permit program for wells that store carbon dioxide
December 28, 2023
Powerful surf is rolling onto beaches on the West Coast and Hawaii as a big swell generated by the stormy Pacific Ocean pushes toward shorelines
December 28, 2023
Led by new solar power, the world added renewable energy at breakneck speed in 2023, a trend that if amplified will help Earth turn away from fossil fuels and prevent severe warming and its effects
December 27, 2023
Japanese nuclear safety regulators are lifting an operational ban imposed on a plant owned by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, the operator behind the Fukushima disaster
December 27, 2023
A wildfire that tore through the heart of the Hawaii island of Maui this summer showed how older residents are at particular risk from disasters
December 27, 2023
On Dec. 28, 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act
December 27, 2023
Firefighters and volunteers worked overnight to reinforce dikes in northern and eastern Germany against rising floodwaters as heavy rain falling on already soaked ground pushed rivers and streams over their banks and forced several towns to evacuate residents
December 26, 2023
A Nevada tribe is gearing up for a different kind of fight against the U.S. government as it tries to build more public support for protecting Native American sacred sites
December 24, 2023
Residents of the small fishing town in Iceland where a volcano erupted this week have been told they can return home
December 22, 2023
The Biden administration released its highly anticipated proposal for doling out billions of dollars in tax credits to hydrogen producers Friday, in a massive effort to build out an industry that some hope can be a cleaner alternative to fossil fuel power
December 22, 2023
Some California farming communities have been plagued for years by problems with their drinking water due to nitrates and other contaminants in the groundwater that feeds their wells
December 22, 2023
Officials say a wildfire burning out of control on the outskirts of the Australian west coast city of Perth has destroyed at least two homes and injured two men
December 21, 2023
Three trafficked Sumatran orangutans have been sent back from Thailand to Indonesia as part of a joint effort between the countries to tackle the illegal wildlife trade
December 21, 2023
A state appeals court in Oregon has decided that the rules for a program designed to limit and drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel companies are invalid
December 21, 2023
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in February on whether the Environmental Protection Agency can continue enforcing its anti-air-pollution “good neighbor” rule in 10 states
December 20, 2023
Oil companies have offered $382 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico after courts rejected the Biden administration’s plans to scale back the sale to protect an endangered whale species
December 20, 2023
America’s automakers have staked their futures on the notion that electric vehicles will dominate sales in the coming years, spurred by buyers determined to reduce carbon emissions and save on fuel
December 20, 2023
Heavy rains are drenching parts of California, bringing the threat of flooding and mudslides as millions of people gear up for holiday travel
December 20, 2023
The Bosnian capital of Sarajevo has been intermittently engulfed in a toxic haze since the start of December, with air quality so bad it was placed first on a list of the world’s most polluted cities for a second straight day
December 20, 2023
The UN climate conference brought some progress. A former UN official who has been involved in international climate policy for years explains what has to happen now for that progress to pay off.
December 20, 2023
One of Pennsylvania’s leading natural gas companies is poised to drill and frack in the rural community where it was banned for a dozen years for polluting the water supply
December 20, 2023
Authorities in a western Brazil state are taking aim at deforestation of the Amazon with a slew of lawsuits against slaughterhouses and farmers accused of illegally raising cattle in a protected area
December 19, 2023
When ships sink, they add artificial structures to the seafloor that can quickly become diverse, ecologically important underwater communities.
December 19, 2023
For decades, Christmas tree growers and breeders have been preparing for a future of hotter weather and warming soil
December 19, 2023
In an unusual series of legal actions, Brazilian prosecutors have sued multinational meatpacker JBS and three smaller slaughterhouses for allegedly buying cattle directly from illegal ranches in a protected area
December 19, 2023
The White House is lending its support to an auto industry effort to standardize Tesla’s electric vehicle charging plugs for all EVs in the United States, part of a broad effort to stimulate their sales to help combat climate change
December 19, 2023
The US saw a record number of billion-dollar disasters in 2023, even when accounting for inflation. The number of long-running heat waves like the Southwest experienced is also rising.
December 19, 2023
Utility crews are working to restore power to hundreds of thousands of customers in Maine and some rivers continued to rise following a powerful storm that hit the northeastern U.S. At least five people were killed
December 19, 2023
California regulators have approved new rules to let water agencies recycle wastewater and put it right back into the pipes that carry drinking water to homes, schools and businesses
December 19, 2023
Wildlife officials have released five gray wolves into a remote forest in Colorado, kicking off a voter-approved reintroduction program
December 19, 2023
A volcano has erupted in southwestern Iceland with a flash of light into the evening sky in the land known for fire and ice
December 19, 2023
The Environmental Protection Agency says it is conducting more on-site inspections of polluting industrial sites than at any time since the COVID-19 pandemic began
December 18, 2023
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has pledged to lead efforts to simultaneously achieve decarbonization, economic growth and energy security in Asia
December 18, 2023
An interdisciplinary group of researchers at Penn State ran computer models on two Philadelphia census tracts. The neighborhood with more vulnerable residents was also hotter.
December 18, 2023
Flood risk and climate change are pushing millions of people to move from their homes, according to a new study by the risk analysis firm First Street Foundation
December 18, 2023
German farmers are gathering in Berlin to protest against planned cuts to tax breaks for diesel used in agriculture, part of a deal reached by the government to plug a hole in the country’s budget
December 18, 2023
A late-year storm has unleashed heavy rain and gusty winds as it barrels up the East Coast
December 17, 2023
Residential solar is gaining traction in the U.S., with about 4.5 million homes now with solar rooftops
December 16, 2023
A federal judge has denied a request to halt the reintroduction of gray wolves in Colorado just days away from the predators’ release
December 16, 2023
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green says he he wants 3,000 condos and homes normally rented to Maui tourists converted to long-term housing for displaced wildfire survivors who are still living in hotels
December 15, 2023
Two wildlife conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against BNSF Railway over delays in finalizing a plan to reduce the number of federally protected grizzly bears that are killed by trains in northwestern Montana and northern Idaho
December 15, 2023
A group of scientists in New York set traps for local wildlife, such as possums and raccoons, for months, ranging from Staten Island to Queens. Their goal was not to tag and release the animals but rather to thoroughly examine and swab them for pathogens that could be harmful to humans before the creatures disappeared back into the shadows of the city. Their goal is to shield city people from animal diseases that might be hidden among the furry residents who live off the main road in the large city. The Columbia University researchers aim specifically to trace coronaviruses and
December 15, 2023
It might seem counterintuitive to suggest timber harvesting when the goal is to restore forests, but that gives landholders the economic incentive to protect and manage forests over time.
December 15, 2023
The Treasury Department is spelling out the rules for tax credits designed to stimulate production of sustainable aviation fuel
December 15, 2023
A donor-advised fund devoted to supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals has leapt from being a relatively minor charity to one with an asset size comparable to behemoths like the Andrew W
December 15, 2023
Guatemala violated Indigenous rights by permitting a huge nickel mine on tribal land almost two decades ago, according to a ruling from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
December 15, 2023
Water shortages are one of the greatest problems created by a warming world. A decentralized water system is a compelling counterargument to the notion that bigger is better.
December 15, 2023
Germany's parliament has approved plans to raise the country’s levy on carbon dioxide emissions from fuel by more than previously planned next month
December 15, 2023
California energy regulators have voted to allow the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant to operate for an additional five years, despite calls from environmental groups to shut it down
December 15, 2023
The U.S. government said Thursday it plans to spend $1 billion over the next decade to help recover depleted populations of salmon in the Pacific Northwest
December 15, 2023
New oil and natural gas leasing will be prohibited on New Mexico state land surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park for the next 20 years
December 14, 2023
The Biden administration is initiating a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic black smoke following a fiery train derailment earlier this year in eastern Ohio
December 14, 2023
A federal grand jury indictment says two men killed about 3,600 birds, including bald and golden eagles, during a “killing spree” on Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation and elsewhere
December 14, 2023
The climate negotiations that just finished in Dubai hit upon the essence of compromise, finding common language that everyone accepted, at times grudgingly
December 14, 2023
Migrating birds need stopover locations en route where they can rest and feed. A new study shows that artificial light draws them away from sites they would normally use and into risky zones.
December 14, 2023
Though progressive politics at the turn of the 20th century called for the protection of America’s national parks, it did so for the enjoyment of white people.
December 14, 2023
A federal judge says she will decide by Friday whether to temporarily halt the impending reintroduction of gray wolves to Colorado under a voter-approved initiative
December 14, 2023
At least 15 people who registered for Saudi Arabia’s delegation to the COP28 climate conference in Dubai appear to be undeclared employees of the Saudi state oil company, according to research by an environmental nonprofit
December 13, 2023
Over 14 days of U.N. climate talks, delegates from nearly 200 countries debated, made proposals, lobbed criticisms and did their best to convince each other how best to stop the planet from warming at a dangerous pace
December 13, 2023
Mauna Kea is a 14,000-foot shield volcano in Hawaii’s Big Island
December 13, 2023
Maine's environmental board is set to decide next week whether the state should adopt California-style regulations limiting the sale of new gas-powered vehicles
December 13, 2023
Dengue is sweeping across the Western Hemisphere in numbers not seen since record-keeping began in 1980 as experts warn that rising temperatures and rapid urbanization are accelerating the pace of infections
December 13, 2023
Negotiators at United Nations COP28 climate talks agreed Wednesday that the world must transition away from planet-warming fossil fuels
December 13, 2023
Tropical Cyclone Jasper has crossed Australia’s northeast coast as a category 2 storm, lashing the sparsely populated region with winds of up to 87 miles an hour
December 13, 2023
A Mexican gray wolf that traveled far beyond the boundaries set in the Southwestern U.S. for managing the endangered species is back in captivity after being captured Saturday in northern New Mexico
December 12, 2023
The early heat melted snow and warmed rivers, heating up the land and downstream ocean areas. The effects harmed salmon fisheries, melted sea ice and fueled widespread fires.
December 12, 2023
The Colorado cattle industry association filed a lawsuit Monday against state and federal agencies over the reintroduction of gray wolves just weeks away from the predators' release
December 12, 2023
With the United Nations climate talks wrapping up in Dubai, foundations and other funders pledged at least $2.1 billion in new financing to reduce climate impacts, especially from agriculture
December 12, 2023
Interpol and the World Customs Organization say they seized 53 primates, four big cats and more than 1,300 birds in their sweeping annual crackdown on wildlife and timber trafficking
December 12, 2023
United Nations climate negotiators have declared the world must transition away from oil, gas and coal
December 12, 2023
A major, long-shot effort is gearing up to mobilize money to save Planet Earth by helping poorer countries go greener
December 12, 2023
As this year's global climate talks reach a conclusion, activists are hoping that negotiators will listen to their stories as they weigh what to do about the fossil fuels that are warming the planet
December 12, 2023
Hopes for finishing a critical climate summit on time faded early Tuesday as countries were still far apart on key issues, including an agreement on what to do about the fossil fuels that are causing dangerous global warming
December 12, 2023
The heart of the historic town of Lahaina that burned in a deadly wildfire that killed at least 100 people on the Hawaiian island of Maui is reopening to residents and business owners holding day passes
December 12, 2023
The International Union for Conservation of Nature, the leading tracker of global biodiversity, released their new Red List of Threatened Species on Monday at the United Nations climate conference in Dubai
December 11, 2023
Organizers of the Paris Olympics say work will resume this week to prepare the surfing venue in Tahiti after an uproar over damage to a coral reef put efforts on hold
December 11, 2023
A combination of heavy rain, snow, and wind is bringing threats of flooding and power outages to the Northeast
December 11, 2023
As countries at the COP28 climate talks are wrangling over deadlines for lowering their carbon dioxide emissions, a Danish-led group of countries has decided to set the ultimate goal: to remove more CO2 from the atmosphere than they emit
December 11, 2023
Indigenous women at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai are coming together to share some of their innovative ideas on how communities on the front lines of climate change can contend with it
December 11, 2023
Countries at United Nations-led climate talks in Dubai moved closer to reaching a final deal on Monday, but critics condemned a draft agreement as a watered-down document that won't stop dangerous climate change
December 11, 2023
It’s the killer detail in international climate talks: Consensus
December 11, 2023
Central Tennessee residents and emergency workers are digging out from devastating weekend storms that killed six people, toppled houses and cut power to tens of thousands
December 10, 2023
The European Union’s plan to impose a tax on the carbon pollution emitted to make goods imported from countries like India and China has sparked a debate at the United Nations climate conference in Dubai, as poorer countries argue that the tax will harm livelihoods and economic growth
December 10, 2023
Negotiators have been urged to narrow down their options and agree on how to save Earth from disastrous levels of warming as the clock runs down on United Nations climate talks and the summit’s president is determined to finish up talks by Tuesday
December 10, 2023
Visitors walking along the river that flows through downtown Rotterdam might be surprised to see a three-tiered structure moored in the water, with a top level occupied by brown and white cows grazing on hay dropped from a conveyor belt
December 10, 2023
This year’s global climate summit in Dubai set aside Sunday to spotlight food and agriculture, a sector that accounts for about a third of the world’s emission
December 10, 2023
At last year's climate talks, then Brazilian President-elect Inacio Lula da Silva was received as a hero with chants of “Lula
December 09, 2023
Activists designated Saturday a day of protest at the COP28 summit in Dubai
December 09, 2023
An agreement at the United Nations-led climate conference to transition away from fossil fuels brought a measure of relief for climate activists, even as many said it doesn’t go far enough
December 09, 2023
After purple urchins helped nearly wipe out 96% of California's iconic underwater bull kelp forests over a six-year span, biologists say they are seeing promising signs that efforts to save them may be helping
December 09, 2023
Veteran climate negotiation observers say the oil industry is starting to sweat as United Nations climate talks heat up and threaten to plug fossil fuel-belching wells for good
December 09, 2023
Pope Francis has made his first public appearance outdoors since being stricken by bronchitis two weeks ago, which forced him to cancel a planned trip to the COP-28 climate conference in Dubai
December 08, 2023
A bold, innovative project begun nearly a generation ago to erect a “green-city” in the United Arab Emirates has run into realities and largely missed its mark
December 08, 2023
As United Nations climate talks enter their second week, negotiators who are largely focused on how to curb climate change have another thing on their plates: how to adapt to the warming that’s already here
December 08, 2023
Young people have been at the forefront of environmental and climate change movements in recent years: initiatives like school strikes for climate action, protests at United Nations climate talks and around the world, and local clean ups have often been youth-led
December 08, 2023
In Florida, this year has been a tale of two states as far as rainfall totals, with the southeast coast deluged by sometimes-record rainfall and much of the Gulf coast facing a major precipitation deficit
December 08, 2023
Teams of veteran negotiators fanned out Friday at the United Nations climate conference with orders to get the strongest, most ambitious agreements possible, especially on the central issue of the fading future of fossil fuels in a dangerously warming planet
December 08, 2023
Environmental watchdogs have accused a Mexico-based startup of violating international trade law that protects the endangered totoaba fish
December 07, 2023
Top U.S. officials say they are entering a new era of collaboration with Native American and Alaska Native leaders in managing public lands, water and other resources
December 07, 2023
An international team of climate scientists says the ongoing catastrophic rains in East Africa have been made worse by human-induced climate change
December 07, 2023
Wyoming officials have decided to hold off on auctioning a pristine and valuable chunk of state-owned land within Grand Teton National Park
December 07, 2023
The mood is about to shift, the hours grow longer and the already high sense of urgency somehow amp up even more as United Nations climate talks head into its final week
December 07, 2023
House Republicans have approved a bill to block strict new tailpipe pollution limits proposed by the Biden administration, calling the plan a back-door mandate for electric vehicles
December 06, 2023
Fifty-two endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles suffering from “cold stun” are rehabbing at four facilities in Florida after a flight on a private plane from the New England Aquarium in Massachusetts
December 06, 2023
Authorities in Oregon are investigating the deaths of two people whose bodies were found in creeks this week as an atmospheric river brings heavy rain, flooding and unseasonably warm temperatures to the Pacific Northwest
December 06, 2023
Off the coast of eastern Long Island, an 800-foot tall turbine has begun sending electricity onto the U.S. grid from what’s set to be the country’s first commercial offshore wind farm
December 06, 2023
New research provides evidence for the first time that the primary chemical in Roundup is reaching people in nearby homes, and it isn’t just from the food they eat.
December 06, 2023
This year’s United Nations climate talks may have seen record numbers registered to attend, but activists who have spent years demonstrating at the annual event say their space to voice their demands is shrinking year on year
December 06, 2023
After a first-day blur of rare quick action and agreement, negotiators at a critical United Nations climate conference Wednesday are finishing up their first week in a more familiar place for them: the murky middle where momentum and roadblocks intertwine
December 06, 2023
Federal investigators have concluded that a 2021 rupture of an undersea oil pipeline off the Southern California coast was likely caused by the proximity of anchored shipping vessels
December 05, 2023
The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued five people from floodwaters in Washington state as an atmospheric river brings heavy rain, flooding and unseasonably warm temperatures to the Pacific Northwest
December 05, 2023
How many years you reuse a fake holiday tree matters. So does what happens to a live tree when you’ve packed up the ornaments.
December 05, 2023
South of Cape Cod, fiddler crabs and marsh grass have long had a mutually beneficial relationship. It’s a different story in the North, where the harms can ricochet through ecosystems.
December 05, 2023
Inert ingredients are added for purposes other than killing pests and are not required under federal law to be tested for safety or identified on pesticide labels.
December 05, 2023
The United States will work with other governments to speed up efforts to make nuclear fusion a new source of carbon-free energy, U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry said Tuesday, while in Dubai for U.N. climate talks
December 05, 2023
Norway’s government has made a deal with two large opposition parties to open the Arctic Ocean to seabed mineral exploration, despite warnings by environmental groups that it would threaten biodiversity
December 05, 2023
The U.N. weather agency is reporting that glaciers shrank more than ever from 2011 and 2020 and the Antarctic ice sheet lost 75 percent more compared to the previous ten years, as it released its latest stark report about the fallout on the planet from climate change
December 05, 2023
For Lebanon’s Christians, the cedars are sacred, these tough evergreen trees that survive the mountain’s harsh snowy winters
December 05, 2023
After days of shaving off the edges of key warming issues, climate negotiators Tuesday are zeroing in on the tough job of dealing with the main cause of what’s overheating the planet: fossil fuels
December 05, 2023
Shifting to renewable energy is a key issue at the ongoing COP28 climate summit
December 05, 2023
A powerful storm has made landfall along India’s southeast coast, unleashing torrential rains and strong winds
December 05, 2023
Pictures released by a conservation group Soundwatch Boater Education Program show a young humpback whale breaching in front of the Space Needle as it visited the waters off Seattle last week, capturing a rare display of wildlife next to a major city
December 05, 2023
A team of scientists reported that the world this year pumped 1.1% more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than last year because of increased pollution from China and India
December 05, 2023
The influence of fossil fuels was a focal point Monday at the United Nations annual climate conference known as COP28
December 04, 2023
Wildlife officials have captured hundreds of invasive carp from the Mississippi River near Trempealeau, Wisconsin
December 04, 2023
A Hawaii official says landing gear from a U.S. Navy jet pulverized coral when it landed in a bay after overshooting a military runway
December 04, 2023
Britain’s polar research ship has crossed paths with the largest iceberg in the world
December 04, 2023
The French parliament is considering a ban on single-use, disposable electronic cigarettes that are popular with teenagers for their sweet flavors and are under scrutiny as a new source of trash
December 04, 2023
A storm is dropping a mix of rain and snow on parts of New England, with some locations recording more than a half-foot of snow to start the week
December 04, 2023
Former Vice President Al Gore says don’t trust the oil and gas industry to report their actual carbon pollution and he adds that the man running United Nations climate talks runs one of the dirtiest oil companies out there
December 04, 2023
Fewer airplanes and helicopters will be flying tourists over Mount Rushmore and other national monuments and parks as new regulations take effect that are intended to protect the serenity of some of the nation’s most beloved natural areas
December 04, 2023
At least 1,300 employees of organizations representing fossil fuel interests registered to attend this year’s United Nations climate talks in Dubai
December 04, 2023
Thousands of people have marched through the center of Brussels in a boisterous rally highlighting the dangers of climate change, as the COP28 climate summit draws to an end in the United Arab Emirates
December 03, 2023
With Planet Earth running a fever, U.N. climate talks have turned their focus on contagious effects on human health
December 03, 2023
As participants at the United Nations’ COP28 climate talks filed in for another day of talks, they found themselves greeted by a rare sight in the United Arab Emirates — a protest
December 03, 2023
Vice President Kamala Harris has engaged in a quick round of diplomacy with Arab leaders while attending the U.N. climate summit in the United Arab Emirates
December 02, 2023
Fifty oil companies representing nearly half of global production are pledging to reach near-zero methane emissions and end routine flaring in their operations by 2030
December 02, 2023
The United States is now committed to the idea of phasing out coal power plants, joining 56 other nations in kicking the coal habit
December 02, 2023
Food systems are increasingly disrupted by climate disasters, while also being a major contributor to climate change. World leaders at COP28 vowed to do something about it.
December 02, 2023
The United States has taken action to reduce methane emissions from oil and natural gas production
December 02, 2023
Leaders of developing nations launched into the second-day of a U.N. climate summit to press rich industrialized countries to share their knowhow to fight global warming and ease the financial burdens they face
December 02, 2023
U.S. officials are proposing a $31 million recovery plan for Canada lynx to help a snow-dependent wildcat species that scientists say could be wiped out in parts of the contiguous U.S. by the end of the century
December 02, 2023
Friday was a day for speechmaking at the United Nations annual climate conference known as COP28, as heads of state each gave short speeches to deliver their views on the planet’s climate crisis, what their nation is doing and what they think others should do
December 01, 2023
Dozens of world leaders said they know the planet’s dangerously overheating and they are trying to keep it from getting worse
December 01, 2023
The annual U.N. climate talks are nearly two weeks of delegates meeting
December 01, 2023
A Kichwa tribal leader has been shot to death in an area of the Peruvian rainforest that’s seen high tension between Indigenous people and illegal loggers
December 01, 2023
A Kichwa tribal leader has been shot to death in an area of the Peruvian rainforest that’s seen high tension between Indigenous people and illegal loggers
December 01, 2023
A busy Atlantic hurricane season is now coming to a close
November 30, 2023
The world wants more nuclear energy as a means to fight climate change and supply an ever-growing demand for electricity, part of a generational shift in thinking on atomic power
November 30, 2023
A central question remains unresolved in the draft treaty: Is plastic pollution basically a waste management problem, or can it be solved only with a cap on production?
November 30, 2023
Nearly all the world’s nations finalized the creation of a fund to help compensate countries struggling to cope with loss and damage caused by climate change, seen as a major first-day breakthrough at this year’s U.N. climate conference as early cash started going into it
November 30, 2023
A veteran of UN climate talks lays out the top themes and their sticking points, including concerns about the host country’s oil interests.
November 30, 2023
The pressure to phase out fossil fuels is mounting on the oil company chief who is leading fragile international climate negotiations in what some say are contradictory dual roles
November 30, 2023
Researchers in South Africa say they have rediscovered a mole species that has an iridescent golden coat and the ability to “swim” through sand dunes after it hadn't been seen for more than 80 years and was thought to be extinct
November 30, 2023
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed the strongest overhaul of lead in drinking water rules in more than three decades
November 30, 2023
The U.N. weather agency says 2023 is all but certain to be the hottest year on record, and warning of worrying trends that suggest increasing floods, wildfires, glacier melt, and heat waves in the future
November 30, 2023
The Middle East plays host to its second straight U.N. climate conference over the next two weeks, with countries hoping to agree on new ways to keep the planet from catastrophic heating by the end of the century
November 30, 2023
The U.S. Navy says underwater footage shows two points where a large plane is touching coral in a Hawaii bay
November 30, 2023
Vice President Kamala Harris will join the United States delegation at the upcoming United Nations conference on climate change in Dubai
November 29, 2023
A group of residents have sued a public utility company in the U.S. Virgin Islands after authorities there reported finding high levels of lead and copper in the tap water on St. Croix
November 29, 2023
Industry is a leading climate polluter: Our road map shows what’s needed to cut industrial emissions in fast-growing countries.
November 29, 2023
Tighter water restrictions for drought-stricken northeast Spain have gone in effect as authorities in Catalonia say that Barcelona may need to have fresh water shipped in by boat in the coming months
November 29, 2023
The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed threatened species protections under a Biden administration proposal
November 29, 2023
Fed Chair Jerome Powell bristles at talk of managing climate change, but the damage it is doing the US economy is hard to ignore, as the latest National Climate Assessment shows.
November 29, 2023
AI is exciting and scary, but it’s also a very useful tool. Here’s how AI is helping farmers shore up their bottom lines, protect the environment and boost food security.
November 29, 2023
The Emirati president-designate for the upcoming United Nations COP28 climate talks has forcefully denied a report alleging his nation planned to use the summit to strike oil and gas deals, a day before the summit was due to begin
November 29, 2023
Experts say the world is heading for considerably less warming than projected a decade ago, but that good news is overwhelmed by much more pain from current climate change than scientists anticipated
November 29, 2023
Pollution is causing respiratory illnesses and deaths to rise in Indonesia's island of Java, including the capital, Jakarta
November 29, 2023
A survivor of the deadly landslide in Alaska last week says the force of the impact threw her around like a "piece of weightless popcorn."
November 29, 2023
Officials say that hundreds of stray cats that roam a historic seaside tourist area of Puerto Rico’s capital will be removed over the coming year
November 28, 2023
Pope Francis has canceled his trip to Dubai for the U.N. climate conference on doctors’ orders
November 28, 2023
Google announced Tuesday that an advanced geothermal project has begun pumping carbon-free electricity onto the Nevada electric grid to feed Google data centers there
November 28, 2023
France's government plans to ban smoking on all beaches, in public parks, forests and some other public areas
November 28, 2023
Tornadoes have been forecast for the Black Sea region after a storm left more than 2 million people without electricity in Crimea, Russia and Ukraine
November 28, 2023
Dubai is preparing to host the COP28 climate talks as world leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden and Pope Francis have signaled they will not be attending the negotiations
November 28, 2023
Worries about future water supplies from ancient aquifers are bubbling up in western rural Arizona
November 28, 2023
The U.S. Navy says it has removed nearly all of the fuel from a plane that overshot a Hawaii runway and landed in an environmentally sensitive bay
November 27, 2023
Over ten years ago, an Australian wildlife park with special features such as a large preserved great white shark suddenly shut down, leaving numerous animals withering behind locked gates. However, just recently, Luke McPherson entered the deserted building and posted impressive and disturbing pictures of its eerie insides. The most noticeable feature is the 16-foot-long preserved shark named Rosie, which is still floating completely intact in a tank of chemicals. The tank’s broken glass no longer entirely covers her dried-out carcass. The tale began in 1998 with Rosie’s accidental capture in South Australian tuna nets, likely spurring her unnatural death.
November 27, 2023
Mexico is celebrating national conservation day
November 27, 2023
Kenya's government is urging people living in flood-prone areas to relocate to higher ground as heavy rains and flash floods continued to wreak havoc across East Africa
November 27, 2023
President Joe Biden plans to skip the upcoming climate talks in Dubai, an event that is expected to draw heads of state and diplomats from more than 200 nations and the Vatican
November 27, 2023
Negotiating global progress on climate change involves walking a fine line, as a former UN official explains.
November 27, 2023
A Sumatran rhino has given birth to a male calf in Indonesia, a welcome addition to a critically endangered species that numbers fewer than 50 animals
November 27, 2023
A powerful weekend storm in the Black Sea region toppled trees, tore down power lines and caused coastal flooding, and government officials and media reports said more than half a million people were without power in southern Russia and Ukraine
November 27, 2023
Earth's climate is in trouble, and the signs could be seen around the world this summer
November 27, 2023
The British Antarctic Survey says that one of the world’s largest icebergs is drifting beyond Antarctic waters after being grounded for more than three decades
November 25, 2023
The energy used by cars and their CO2 emissions could have dropped by over 30% in the past decade if not for the world’s growing taste for SUVs, a new report from the Global Fuel Economy Initiative suggests
November 25, 2023
A growing number of states are working to keep food out of landfills over concerns the waste is taking up too much space and posing environmental problems
November 25, 2023
Academics in Mexico City are asking for donations to protect axolotls, an iconic fish-like type of salamander
November 24, 2023
Authorities have identified those missing or killed in an Alaska landslide this week as five family members and their neighbor, a commercial fisherman who made a longshot bid for the state's lone seat in the U.S. House last year
November 24, 2023
Ahead of international climate talks, U_N_ Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited globally-important Antarctica, where ice that’s been frozen for millions of years is melting due to human-caused climate change, sending the message that “we absolutely need to act immediately.”
November 24, 2023
When Daniel Skousen scrubs at the ash and soot covering his Maui home, he worries about the smell
November 24, 2023
It's been a record-breaking year for sea turtles in Florida
November 24, 2023
Searchers looking for three people who remain missing after a massive landslide that killed three others and injured a fourth have changed their strategy from holding an active search to a reactive search that will involve methodically clearing the highway
November 23, 2023
The longest-running study of its kind reviewed death records in the path of pollution from coal-fired power plants. The numbers are staggering − but also falling fast as US coal plants close.
November 23, 2023
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is visiting Antarctica just before the COP28 climate talks begin in Dubai
November 23, 2023
Australian authorities say dozens of residents have been evacuated and at least 10 homes have been destroyed by a wildfire that's burning out of control during heat wave spring conditions on the northern fringe of the west coast city of Perth
November 23, 2023
In Zimbabwe, rains are finally bringing relief to its second-largest national park
November 23, 2023
About 200 wild horses roam free in a western North Dakota national park
November 23, 2023
First, some families fled drought and violence
November 23, 2023
Animal welfare advocates are suing to stop Wisconsin's new wolf management plan
November 23, 2023
Peruvian scientists say Peru has lost more than half of its glacier surface in the last six decades due to climate change
November 22, 2023
Three people are dead and three others remain missing after a landslide ripped through a remote Alaska fishing community this week
November 22, 2023
President Joe Biden declared an emergency over lead-in-water contamination in the U.S. Virgin Islands earlier this week after tests on St. Croix revealed levels more than 100 times the limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency – among the worst results a U.S. community has seen in decades
November 22, 2023
Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana and other northern states are making preparations to stop an invasion of wild pigs from Canada
November 22, 2023
A fund to compensate developing nations for the impacts of climate change was the supposed big breakthrough at last year's United Nations-led climate talks in Egypt
November 22, 2023
In an ambitious global experiment, scientists are unleashing millions of engineered mosquitoes carrying virus-blocking bacteria upon dense urban landscapes as an ecological solution to infectious diseases transmitted by the insects’ bites. Initial trials suppressing dengue spread by up to 80 percent bolster hopes of harnessing evolution to vanquish humankind’s most lethal animal foe, responsible for nearly a million annual deaths. But realizing lasting impacts across continents presents daunting financial and logistical hurdles. At dedicated factories in Colombia, technicians mass-produce Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with the Wolbachia parasite, which largely prevents transmission of viruses like dengue. The ambitious aim: completely replace
November 21, 2023
Veterinarians across multiple states are investigating an unusual respiratory illness spreading among dogs that resists antibiotics and can lead to pneumonia. First detected a few months ago, over 200 cases have now emerged in Oregon, with additional reports from Colorado, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and potentially Illinois. Experts remain unsure of the exact cause but describe the disease as a likely viral infection passed through close contact, resulting in coughing, discharge and lethargy. While researchers characterize the outbreak more as a chronic nuisance than major threat, they advise vigilance and caution from owners as they work to pinpoint the
November 21, 2023
Gov. Josh Shapiro says he'll appeal a court ruling that blocked a state regulation to make Pennsylvania’s power plant owners pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions
November 21, 2023
As much as 1.1 million gallons of oil may have been discharged into the Gulf of Mexico from a pipeline system off Louisiana’s southeast coast
November 21, 2023
The Biden administration is making $2 billion available to community groups, states and tribes to clean up pollution and develop clean energy in disadvantaged communities in what officials called the largest-ever investment in environmental justice
November 21, 2023
Three people have been killed and three more are missing after a landslide ripped through a remote Alaskan fishing community
November 21, 2023
From dark dragonflies becoming paler to plants flowering earlier, some species are slowly evolving with the climate. Evolutionary biologists explain why few will evolve fast enough.
November 21, 2023
France, backed by the United States, plans to seek a halt to private financing for coal-based
November 21, 2023
The eruption of Papua New Guinea’s tallest volcano is subsiding but thick ash still billowed into the sky and coated roofs and palm trees nearby
November 21, 2023
With the annual U.N.-led climate summit known as COP to convene later this month in Dubai, activists are urging policymakers to respond to climate change’s disproportionate impact on women and girls
November 21, 2023
In a move that may soon be replicated elsewhere, the Gila River Indian Community recently signed an agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to put solar panels over a stretch of irrigation canal on their land south of Phoenix
November 20, 2023
A new United Nations report calculates that the globe is speeding to 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius (4.5 to 5.2 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming since pre-industrial times, set to blow well past the agreed upon international climate threshold
November 20, 2023
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the U.K. is setting up a new science initiative to help develop flood-tolerant rice, disease-resistant wheat and other crops that are more resilient to climate change
November 20, 2023
The operator of Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear plant says the release of a third batch of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean has ended safely as planned
November 20, 2023
South African abalone, a curious fist-sized sea snail, is a highly prized morsel in East Asia and the unwitting instigator of 30 years of trouble for fishing communities along Africa’s southern coast
November 20, 2023
In the first two weeks of November, fires fueled by unusually dry and hot weather destroyed nearly 770,000 hectares (1.9 million acres) of the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands
November 19, 2023
Following historic rainfall and flooding earlier this summer, farmers in Graves County, Kentucky sustained field damage and crop loss
November 19, 2023
State and federal wildlife agencies have developed a new weapon to slow down invasive carp across the Great Lakes region: traitor fish
November 19, 2023
People in southwest Iceland are on edge, waiting to see whether a volcano rumbling under the Reykjanes peninsula will erupt
November 18, 2023
Far off the Texas coast there is a beautiful surprise in the Gulf of Mexico that draws divers from around the world: a stunning amount of coral coverage on undersea mountains
November 18, 2023
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its “plant hardiness zone map” for the first time in a decade
November 18, 2023
Residents in the northern Mexican state of Sonora are battling a new train line that threatens to displace their homes and cut up the local ecosystem
November 18, 2023
Forty-one workers remain trapped in a collapsed road tunnel in northern India for a seventh day as a new drilling matching arrived on site to replace the damaged one
November 18, 2023
It’s been a long journey from the forests of Arizona, across the dusty high desert of central New Mexico to the edge of what is known as the Yellowstone of the Southwest for one lone Mexican gray wolf
November 17, 2023
The United States and the Philippines have signed a nuclear cooperation pact under which U.S. investment and technologies are to help the Southeast Asian nation transition to cleaner energy and bolster its power supply
November 17, 2023
A book about an inferno that ravaged a Canadian city and has been called a portent of climate chaos has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize
November 16, 2023
One of the thorniest problems of the 21st century is how to get people to eat less meat
November 16, 2023
The European Commission will continue the use of the controversial chemical herbicide glyphosate in the European Union for 10 more years after the 27 member countries again failed to find a common position
November 16, 2023
Developed nations may have achieved their overdue promise of $100 billion to help poorer countries cope with climate change in 2022, the OECD said on Thursday, an
November 16, 2023
The United States and 13 partners in the Indo-Pacific region are announcing a signed deal on supply chains and agreements in principle on climate and anti-corruption efforts
November 16, 2023
New York state has sued PepsiCo in an effort to hold the soda-and-snack food giant partly responsible for litter that winds up in bodies of water that supply the city of Buffalo with drinking water
November 15, 2023
It's still spring in Brazil, but a dangerous heat wave is sweeping the country, prompting health alerts and driving up energy demand as people turn to air conditioning and fans to stay cool
November 15, 2023
A recent study focusing on how offshore wind farms in Massachusetts waters could affect endangered right whales does not call for slowing the projects, but says monitoring will be critical.
November 15, 2023
European Union negotiators have reached a deal to reduce highly polluting methane gas emissions from the energy sector across the 27-nation bloc
November 15, 2023
China and the U.S. have pledged to accelerate their efforts to address climate change ahead of a major U.N. meeting on the issue
November 15, 2023
A German thinktank has reported that to prevent global warming from surpassing the critical threshold of 1.5 Celsius, major Asian economies must ensure they can get half of their total electricity from renewables by 2030
November 15, 2023
The state of California operates a little-known program to lease land under freeways that is now under scrutiny after an arson fire under Interstate 10 in Los Angeles
November 15, 2023
A federal appeals court has ordered the Biden administration to carry on with an auction of oil and gas drilling leases for Gulf of Mexico waters in 37 days — rejecting arguments by environmentalists
November 15, 2023
Colombia has begun the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s
November 14, 2023
Does Paris have too many SUVs
November 14, 2023
Jesmyn Ward’s slave narrative “Let Us Descend” and Jake Bittle’s exploration of climate change’s impact “The Great Displacement” are among the finalists for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in fiction and nonfiction
November 14, 2023
Scientists found PFAS hot spots in Miami’s Biscayne Bay where the chemicals are entering coastal waters and reaching the ocean. Water samples point to some specific sources.
November 14, 2023
Flagship EU legislation that's meant to force European companies to screen out climate harms from their business operations faces being dramatically watered down
November 14, 2023
Two global reports say humanity’s fight to curb climate change is failing in dozens of ways with people getting sicker and dying as the world warms and the fossil fuels causing it get more subsidies
November 14, 2023
A massive new federal government report says revved-up climate change now permeates Americans’ daily lives with harms that are already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States
November 14, 2023
The tiny Caribbean island of Dominica is creating the world’s first marine protected area for one of earth’s largest animals: the endangered sperm whale
November 13, 2023
Rapidly changing temperatures and sensory environments are challenging the nervous systems of many species. Animals will be forced to evolve to survive.
November 13, 2023
Efforts to create a landmark treaty to end global plastic pollution are advancing at a meeting where participants are discussing the treaty's draft language for the first time
November 13, 2023
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been briefly interrupted by a man who approached her on stage after she invited a Palestinian and an Afghan woman to speak at a climate protest in the Dutch capital
November 12, 2023
Millions of Indians are celebrating Diwali, the Hindu festival of light, with a Guinness World Record number of bright earthen oil lamps as concerns about air pollution soared in the South Asian country
November 12, 2023
Activists protesting environmental abuses, poor working conditions and the Israel-Hamas war are protesting a global trade summit
November 12, 2023
A wildfire burning in a remote Hawaii rainforest is underscoring a new reality for the normally lush island state just a few months after a devastating blaze on a neighboring island leveled an entire town and killed at least 99 people
November 12, 2023
Volunteers are taking part in an effort to extend the habitat of the most emblematic and endangered species of Rio de Janeiro’s rural interior — the golden lion tamarin
November 11, 2023
Residents of a fishing town in southwestern Iceland have left their homes after increasing concern about a potential volcanic eruption caused civil defense authorities to declare a state of emergency in the region
November 11, 2023
Mexican officials have imposed severe, monthslong cuts to Mexico City’s water supply just a month after initial restrictions were ordered as drought dries the capital’s reservoirs
November 11, 2023
The Biden administration’s plan to build new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas calls for a “movable” design that frustrates both environmentalists and advocates of stronger border enforcement
November 11, 2023
Four homeless people have died in the last week on the streets of Anchorage as a major winter storm dropped more than 2 feet on snow on Alaska’s largest city
November 10, 2023
A European company has cancelled plans to build blades for offshore wind turbines in coastal Virginia
November 10, 2023
More than two weeks ago Otis went from tropical storm to Category 5 hurricane in a record 12 hours
November 10, 2023
Environmental activist Jill Stein is launching another long-shot Green Party bid for the presidency
November 10, 2023
French President Emmanuel Macron says melting glaciers pose “an unprecedented challenge for humanity.”
November 10, 2023
With many countries planning fossil fuel production increases and continuing subsidies, negotiators have their work cut out for them when the COP28 climate summit begins.
November 10, 2023
In recent years, koi have become hugely popular in Asia, with exports doubling over the past decade
November 10, 2023
Australia is offering the island nation of Tuvalu a lifeline to help residents escape the rising seas and increased storms that climate change is bringing
November 10, 2023
More than a year after California endorsed a proposal to extend the lifespan of its last nuclear power plant, disputes continue to swirl about potential safety risks and future costs tied to the decades-old reactors
November 10, 2023
A pond in Hawaii has turned so bubble-gum pink it could be from the set of “Barbie.”
November 10, 2023
A federal judge has upheld the Biden administration’s approval of the Willow oil-drilling project on Alaska’s remote North Slope, a massive project that drew the ire of environmentalists who accused the president of backpedaling on his pledge to combat climate change
November 09, 2023
The Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, one of Iceland’s biggest tourist attractions, has closed temporarily as a swarm of earthquakes put the island nation’s most populated region on alert for a possible volcanic eruption
November 09, 2023
The 12 months ending in October were the hottest ever recorded on Earth and likely the planet’s hottest 12-month period ever recorded, according to a report from the nonprofit science research group Climate Central
November 09, 2023
Toxic gray smog has sickened tens of thousands of people in Pakistan’s cultural capital of Lahore, forcing authorities to shut schools, markets and parks for four days
November 09, 2023
South Pacific leaders are heading to the stunning island of Aitutaki to discuss climate change and other regional concerns
November 09, 2023
Debate over proposed regulations for deep-sea mining will stretch into next year as a U.N. agency that presides over the international seabed has concluded its last meeting of the year
November 08, 2023
A fire at a chemical plant in rural Texas had sent a massive plume of black smoke into the sky
November 08, 2023
Close to 400 people connected to fossil fuel industries in some way or another attended last year’s United Nations’ climate talks in Egypt
November 08, 2023
Close to 400 people connected to fossil fuel industries in some way or another attended last year’s United Nations climate talks in Egypt
November 08, 2023
Smart water management isn’t just good for the earth. It’s good for business.
November 08, 2023
As COP28 looks for solutions to the climate crisis, retaining biodiversity is crucial to the planet’s future. But not every species can be saved from extinction. Here’s one approach.
November 08, 2023
A new study says the three-year drought that has left millions of people in Syria, Iraq and Iran with little water wouldn’t have happened without human-caused climate change
November 08, 2023
October was the fifth straight month that Earth set a record for the hottest month in recorded history
November 08, 2023
A new study finds that endangered cheetahs are more likely to hunt at dawn and dusk on hot days, which increases their odds of conflict with other nocturnal predators
November 08, 2023
Electric vehicle maker Rivian says it will allow other companies to purchase its delivery vans, ending its exclusive agreement with Amazon
November 07, 2023
A Florida woman was viciously attacked by a 9-foot alligator while snorkeling at a recreation area over the weekend, suffering bite wounds to her forehead. Marissa Carr was swimming at Alexander Springs near Ocala on Sunday when the massive reptile emerged and bit her head before retreating, she recounted to local media. Incredibly, a photographer happened to capture graphic photos of the immediate aftermath showing blood streaming down her face as she exited the water. The terrifying encounter demonstrates the random danger alligators pose to humans even in designated swimming areas within their habitat. Carr said she was snorkeling with
November 07, 2023
Chile’s National Forestry Corporation has permanently closed a popular glacier, sparking outrage from adventurers and local guides
November 07, 2023
‘Living materials’ made with genetically engineered bacteria and Jell-O-like gel could make pollutants in water bodies nontoxic.
November 07, 2023
The Air Force is asking Congress to restrict further construction of the towering wind turbines that have edged closer to its nuclear missile sites in Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, Nebraska and Colorado
November 07, 2023
Masks are back on the New Delhi streets as residents grapple with the annual surge in air pollution that has engulfed the Indian capital region
November 07, 2023
Efforts to rebuild a California town nearly wiped out by wildfire five years ago are being stymied by high home insurance costs
November 07, 2023
Paradise is still recovering five years after a wildfire destroyed most of the northern California town
November 07, 2023
An Indian maker of solar-powered dryers, a soil carbon marketplace and groups that work to make electric car batteries cleaner, restore Andean forests and deter illegal fishing were awarded the Earthshot Prize at a ceremony in Singapore
November 07, 2023
Homeowners in Los Angeles who want to stay cool and reduce energy expenses are opting for “cool roofs” – roofs constructed with reflective materials that absorb less sunlight. Due to climate change causing higher temperatures, cool roofs offer a straightforward option to reduce excessive roof heat absorption. Studies indicate that they have the potential to decrease air conditioning usage by an average of 20% and lower indoor temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit. “A roof and a wall that reflect light are straightforward and dependable passive methods that only require you to make the correct decision when it’s
November 06, 2023
Offshore wind power company Orsted is trying to get out of a $300 million guarantee it agreed to pay New Jersey in the event it failed to build its first wind farm off the state’s coast
November 06, 2023
Two climate change protesters have been arrested after they smashed a protective glass panel covering a famous Diego Velázquez oil painting at London’s National Gallery
November 06, 2023
Global warming plus leverage equals a big mess for companies.
November 06, 2023
The same instruments used to measure earthquakes pick up vibrations as ocean waves put pressure on the sea floor. Four decades of data tell a story about ocean storms.
November 06, 2023
French power network operator Enedis says one of its technicians was killed as it battles to restore electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes in the wake of major storms
November 05, 2023
Climate change is increasing billion-dollar disasters, many of them from intensifying hurricanes
November 05, 2023
Prince William has arrived in Singapore for the Earthshot Prize awards, the first to be held in Asia, to support environmental innovators with solutions to battle climate change and save the planet
November 05, 2023
Negotiators on a climate-related loss and damages fund have agreed the World Bank will temporarily oversee the international fund to help poor countries hit hard by a warming planet
November 05, 2023
Some California entrepreneurs and farmers are betting agave could be a promising crop for the state
November 05, 2023
Federal regulators will review the use of a chemical found in tires after a petition from Native American tribes in California and Washington state
November 05, 2023
By Gloria Dickie and Valerie Volcovici Countries moved a step closer on Saturday to getting a fund off the ground to help poor states damaged by climate disasters, despite reservations from developing
November 04, 2023
The cancellation of two large offshore wind projects in New Jersey is the latest in a series of setbacks for the nascent U.S. offshore wind industry, jeopardizing President Joe Biden's goal of powering 10 million homes by towering ocean-based turbines by the end of the decade
November 04, 2023
Panama's president has signed into law an indefinite moratorium on new mining concessions
November 04, 2023
How will Earth’s vast boreal forests look in a warmer world? Combining satellite-based research with fieldwork shows that the planet’s largest wilderness may be changing in unexpected ways.
November 03, 2023
A wildfire abetted by winds from Storm Ciarán has burned some 2,000 hectares (4,900 acres) of land in eastern Spain and forced the evacuation of 850 people from four towns
November 03, 2023
New Delhi’s government has shut primary schools and banned polluting vehicles and construction work in an attempt to reduce the worst haze and smog of the season
November 03, 2023
Record-breaking rain provoked floods in a vast swath of Tuscany as storm Ciarán pushed into Italy overnight
November 03, 2023
Fishing communities in Fukushima feared devastating damage to their businesses from the tsunami-wrecked nuclear power plant’s ongoing discharge of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea
November 03, 2023
One of modern climate science’s pioneers is warning that the world isn’t just steadily warming, but is dangerously accelerating
November 02, 2023
The tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began its third release of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the sea after Japanese officials said the two earlier releases ended smoothly
November 02, 2023
Pope Francis says he will go to Dubai for three days during the COP28 climate conference hosted there
November 01, 2023
Firefighters are making progress against a Southern California wildfire but authorities say thousands of homes still remain threatened
November 01, 2023
Dog parks have become a wildly popular fixture in many communities across the United States. However experts say these off-leash play spaces come with several risks that dog owners should consider before frequenting them. While surveys show that around 90% of Americans view dog parks as beneficial amenities, canine behavior specialists caution that they are not always ideal environments for dogs. Concerns around socialization, injuries, disease transmission and misreading dog body language are frequently cited by professionals. Still, dog parks remain enticing to many urban and suburban owners looking for spaces where their pets can exercise and interact with other
November 01, 2023
With last year’s undersea volcano injecting massive amounts of water high into the atmosphere, scientists were bracing for a big Antarctica ozone hole this fall
November 01, 2023
Wind energy developer Orsted is writing off $4 billion, due largely to the cancellation of two large offshore wind projects in New Jersey whose financial challenges mirror those facing the nascent industry
November 01, 2023
The Environmental Protection Agency spent more than a year investigating whether Louisiana's oversight of industrial air emissions discriminated against Black residents
November 01, 2023
A ferry that had ran aground last month off southeastern Sweden and started leaking oil into the Baltic Sea has been pulled free and anchored nearby
November 01, 2023
Huge ash columns have erupted from Eurasia’s tallest active volcano and forced authorities to close schools in two towns on Russia’s sparsely populated Kamchatka Peninsula
November 01, 2023
A business group that advocates for clean energy estimates that 403,000 jobs will be created by the 210 major energy projects announced since the Inflation Reduction Act took effect in mid-2022
November 01, 2023
Danish energy developer Orsted is scrapping two large offshore wind power projects off the coast of New Jersey, adding uncertainty to a nascent industry the Biden administration is counting on to help transition away from the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels
October 31, 2023
A power company’s plans for an enormous offshore wind farm off Virginia's southeast coast have received key federal approval
October 31, 2023
Growing up in Ganado, a small town in Navajo Nation in eastern Arizona, Nikyle Begay always wanted to visit their grandmother’s sheep
October 31, 2023
Curbing climate change — and extreme weather for future generations — depends squarely on society’s ability to rapidly build new clean energy infrastructure despite the messy puzzle of local, state and federal reviews projects must overcome
October 31, 2023
Three energy companies including U.S. Westinghouse, France’s EdF and Korea’s KHNP, have submitted their final bids to build the Czech Republic’s newest reactor at the Dukovany nuclear power station as the country strives to become more energy-independent and wean itself off fossil fuels
October 31, 2023
A pair of recent reports from the Environmental Protection Agency put striking numbers on America's problem with food waste
October 31, 2023
Police who frantically tried to save people from the wildfire that devastated the historic Maui town of Lahaina this summer also faced another challenge: keeping people from heading back toward the flames
October 31, 2023
Saleemul Huq, a pioneering climate scientist from Bangladesh who pushed to get the world to understand, pay for and adapt to worsening warming impacts on poorer nations, has died
October 30, 2023
Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Pilar has already caused two deaths in El Salvador as it meanders off the Pacific coast
October 30, 2023
A new study says that in a little more than five years the world will likely be unable to stay below the internationally agreed temperature limit for global warming if it continues to burn fossil fuels at its current rate
October 30, 2023
Raising sheep is a way of life for many people in Navajo Nation, but a host of factors threaten that livelihood
October 30, 2023
Some pumpkin farmers in the West, particularly wholesalers in places like Colorado and New Mexico, are feeling the pinching effects of drought
October 29, 2023
A group of poultry producers, including the world’s largest, are asking a federal judge to dismiss his ruling that they polluted an Oklahoma watershed
October 28, 2023
The Environmental Protection Agency will soon strengthen lead in drinking water regulations, after decades when they essentially remained the same
October 28, 2023
Hawaii’s land board says it will hand over state land on Maui to be used for a wildfire memorial and fire debris disposal
October 28, 2023
The Biden administration has designated four tracts of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas and Louisiana coasts for development of wind energy
October 27, 2023
Drought
October 27, 2023
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