The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu is living with the daily realities of climate change, as intensifying cyclones, rising seas and saltwater intrusion reshape its coasts and disrupt life.
As global temperatures rise under climate change, the bees responsible for pollinating many crops are under increasing stress and scientists are trying to understand how they are affected.
A severe drought this summer in the Balkans has left over 1,000 cows and horses without water on a mountain in southeast Serbia, forcing the authorities to bring up emergency supplies.
In one of the top Arctic birding destinations in the world, environmental and health challenges are threatening some of the seabirds that are part of Norway’s unique coastal ecosystem.
The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees.
The owner of a factory where six workers died last year in flooding from Hurricane Helene won’t face charges after a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation found no criminal wrongdoing.
After the Palisades and Eaton fires scorched entire neighborhoods, the Army Corps of Engineers set up operations to recycle concrete and metal from mostly fire-damaged homes.
Asian countries are offering to buy more U.S. liquefied natural gas to ease trade tensions with the Trump administration.
President Donald Trump is granting two years of regulatory relief to coal-fired power plants, chemical manufacturers and other industries as he seeks to reverse Biden-era regulations he considers overly burdensome.
Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of powerful quakes within the last five years.
Louisiana is officially canceling a $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement.
All solar and wind energy projects on federal lands and waters must be personally approved by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.
North Carolina has declared a state of emergency after Tropical Storm Chantal caused severe flooding and at least six deaths.
For 37 years in a searing California desert, runners from across the globe have embarked on a 135-mile race through one of the hottest places on Earth.
With record temperatures hitting the U.S., pet owners have to protect their four-legged family members from dangers like heat stroke and dehydration.
A spokesman for Camp Mystic, the Texas enclave devastated by a July 4 flash flood, is raising concerns about communication failures during the disaster.
The nation’s largest public utility says it is looking at other sites for a new natural gas power plant after its preferred location in Tennessee drew heavy public scrutiny, including from country musician John Rich.
Communities along a 700-mile stretch of Alaska’s southern coast ordered their residents to higher ground after a powerful earthquake, but officials quickly downgraded and then canceled a tsunami warning in the area.
Twenty Democratic-led states have filed a lawsuit against the Federal Emergency Management Agency over the cancellation of a disaster mitigation grant program.
At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, a half-dozen workers are making what appear to be gray billiard balls.
The National Park Service is defending its handling of a lightning-sparked wildfire that destroyed the Grand Canyon Lodge.
MP Materials, the operator of the only rare earths mine in the United States, has signed a $500 million deal with Apple.
A weather system moving across Florida wasn’t even a tropical something but it has the potential to develop into a tropical depression as it moves across the Gulf later in the week.
A group of several dozen Indigenous youth from across the Klamath Basin recently emerged victorious after a month-long journey paddling the Klamath River.
The Trump administration has made it harder for people, local and state governments to find critical climate change reports.
Fast fashion relies heavily on synthetic fibers that are made from oil and gas, fossil fuels that cause climate change.
The Indian government has proposed requiring the lowest temperature setting on all new air conditioners to be 20 Celsius, or 68 Fahrenheit.
The search for those missing after Yemen’s Houthi rebels sank a ship in the Red Sea has ended as at least four people are presumed dead and 11 others remain unaccounted for.
The new tax law signed by President Donald Trump creates a federal tax deduction for interest on auto loans.
Wildfire smoke from Canada has made for bad air quality over parts of the Upper Midwest.
A study puts the spotlight on Texas as the leading U.S. state by far for flood-related deaths, with more than 1,000 of them from 1959 to 2019.
The osprey is in decline in one of its key territories and some scientists blame overfishing of menhaden, an important food for the birds.
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors.
The maker of a wind turbine blade that broke apart off Nantucket Island and washed onto beaches last summer has agreed to a $10 million settlement.
Along the banks of creeks and rivers outside of Austin, farmers growing everything from Christmas trees to ostriches have been affected by flooding.
Officials at the Comfort Volunteer Fire Department triggered a flood warning siren last week when the Guadalupe River began to swell.
A retired nurse, her son and a family friend say they were lucky to survive last week's flash floods in Texas that killed more than 100 people, including many summer campers.
Officials are tracking the largest swarm of earthquakes in more than 15 years at Mount Rainier in Washington.
Catastrophic floods often bring with them loss of power, cuts to key emergency communications and sudden hazardous situations that leave victims with only minutes or seconds to seek higher ground and stay safe.
Officials in southern New Mexico say the number of homes destroyed and damaged by a deadly flash flood will only rise as crews survey more neighborhoods in the mountain village of Ruidoso.
Each year from June to September, a series of heavy rains known as monsoons sweep through the Indian subcontinent, providing relief from heat, irrigating the country’s farms and replenishing its rivers.
Though natural disasters cycle across seasons and regions in the U.S., it’s often a shocking discovery for property owners how expansive and expensive flood and water damage can be when a major storm devastates their homes, businesses and communities.
Most U.S. adults who've experienced major flooding in the past five years think climate change was at least a partial cause.
Crews are working to clear twisted metal, broken trees and muddy debris from streets and homes a day after monsoon rains triggered a deadly flash flood in southern New Mexico.
Scientists have linked last week’s European heat wave to human-caused climate change and estimate that climate change was responsible for 1,500 deaths.
Just weeks ago, President Donald Trump said he wanted to begin “phasing out” the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this hurricane season to “wean off of FEMA” and “bring it down to the state level.”.
Experts say climate change is making extreme weather events more frequent and severe, but that our attitudes and actions haven't kept up.
Rescuers are searching for 19 people missing in severe flooding in Nepal that swept away a key bridge connecting the country with China.
Officials in Texas are facing questions about whether they did enough to get people out of harm’s way before a flash flood swept down the Guadalupe River and killed at least 120 people, including more than two dozen children and counselors at an all-girls Christian camp.
At least three people are missing in a mountain village that is a popular summer retreat in southern New Mexico after monsoon rains triggered flash flooding so intense an entire house was swept downstream.
The Trump administration is dropping plans to allow continued use of the last type of asbestos legally allowed in U.S. manufacturing after an outcry from asbestos opponents.
Intense rainstorms are becoming more frequent in most of the U.S. — though experts say where they occur and whether they cause catastrophic flooding is largely a matter of chance.
Flights to and from Marseille have been suspended and traffic at the city’s main train station was disrupted due to a wildfire near the southern French port city.
“Tiger King” star Bhagavan “Doc” Antle has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for illegally buying endangered animals.
Submerged in about 40 meters of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides and generate electricity.
Officials in North Carolina say floodwaters from the remnants of Tropical Storm Chantal swept a woman in her car from a rural road and killed her.
One local summer camp in the path of the disastrous flooding in central Texas was able to avoid any loss of life by closely monitoring weather reports.
Getting ready for a hurricane’s landfall means making sure everyone in your household is prepared, including your furry family members.
Hours before a massive wall of floodwater barreled down a river in the heart of Texas Hill Country before sunrise on Friday, forecasters with the National Weather Service warned people that dangerous conditions were brewing.
Flooding in Central Texas and the Texas Hill Country has killed at least 119 people, with 161 still missing in Kerr County. Rescue crews are still searching for missing people as more rain is expected. Here is a guide on how to help those affected.
Meteorologists say incredible amounts of moisture in the air fueled a storm that moved slowly over central Texas, creating conditions for fatal flash floods.
A swift-moving flood that swept through the Hill Country of Texas on Friday, killing at least 70 people and leaving many more missing, was a flash flood.
The Environmental Protection Agency says the sprawling tax and policy bill should give it a victory in its fight to freeze billions in funding for a green bank for climate friendly projects.
Scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and Tela Marine in Honduras are transplanting crossbred coral fragments onto a reef off Miami's coast.
The Environmental Protection Agency has placed on administrative leave 139 employees who signed a so-called “declaration of dissent” against the federal agency's policies.
Latin America's top human rights court has issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion linking states’ human rights obligations to their duty to address climate change.
Republicans in Congress have advanced a bill cutting clean energy tax credits, and the industry is bracing for the impacts.
Spanish authorities say two people have died in northeastern Spain in a wildfire that spread quickly before firefighters brought it under control.
The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.
The sprawling Republican budget bill approved by the Senate Tuesday removes a proposed tax on solar and wind energy projects but quickly phases out tax credits for wind, solar and other renewable energy.
Dozens of people are being evacuated by helicopter in Austria after a mudslide covered homes and mountain huts in the Gschnitztal valley in Tyrol in the southwest of the Alpine country.
A solar minigrid in a Goma neighborhood where almost everyone lacked access to electricity just five years ago is offering a flicker of hope despite widespread poverty and the city’s violent takeover by Congolese rebels early this year.
A Republican plan heading to a vote in the Senate would quickly end incentives for clean energy and impose new taxes on some wind and solar projects, while boosting production of coal used to make steel.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it is delaying by one month the planned cutoff of satellite data that helps forecasters track hurricanes.
No state may have more to lose than Georgia as Republicans in Congress look to gut federal subsidies that aid both the solar and electric vehicle industries.
