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
Memphis’ water company has lifted a boil-water advisory for more than 600,000 people that was in place for five days due to freezing temperatures that caused pipes to break throughout the southern city
January 23, 2024
Scientists have spotted previously unknown colonies of emperor penguins in new satellite imagery
January 23, 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
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
An Oregon jury has awarded $85 million to nine victims of wildfires that ravaged the state in 2020
January 24, 2024
The groundwater that supplies farms, homes, industries and cities is being depleted across the world
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
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
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
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
President Joe Biden has vetoed a Republican measure that would have blocked a White House waiver that allows some foreign-made content in federally funded chargers for electric vehicles
January 24, 2024
A Montana felon previously convicted of killing eagles to sell their parts on the black market has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for related gun violations
January 24, 2024
In the age-old battle of man versus nature, nature usually wins
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 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
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
Two federal agencies are looking to better protect endangered whales amid a surge in offshore wind farm development
January 25, 2024
Officials say scores of sea turtles stunned by cold temperatures along the North Carolina coast have died
January 25, 2024
For years, John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua were the two most important people working on global warming
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
The Biden administration said Friday it is delaying consideration of new natural gas export terminals in the United States, even as gas shipments to Europe and Asia have soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
January 26, 2024
A year after the bird flu led to record egg prices and widespread shortages, the disease known as highly pathogenic avian influenza is wreaking havoc on California poultry farms
January 27, 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
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
GM to begin laying off about 1,700 workers at Kansas plant, WARN notice shows
Ireland drops plans for hate speech law, minister says
Trump explains why he will not accept CNN debate against Harris
Russia says it will take no part in follow-up to 'peace summit'
France gets a new government after weeks of uncertainty
Sullivan expresses worry over escalating Israel-Lebanon tension, calls Hezbollah strike as justice served
Court gives 5 days for X to validate its Brazil legal representative
WNBA playoffs set to begin Sunday with all four first-round series getting underway
She was born blind, but she travels the world by herself
Carolina Moment: Local corn maze marks 20 years with focus on charity, community aid