President Donald Trump's remodeled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has turned chartreuse from an algal bloom.

The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk’s companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in Mississippi.

A cluster of storms along the Gulf Coast of Texas could become the first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.

African and Commonwealth nations have called for a swift implementation of a landmark treaty protecting the high seas.

The International Energy Agency says Southeast Asia’s power sector is too open to risks from its dependence on imports of oil and gas from a limited number of suppliers.

Lawmakers are demanding the National Science Foundation stop dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a $386 million ocean monitoring network being wound down under President Donald Trump's administration.

The use of advanced sonar to catch fish has some anglers divided about the point of heading out onto the lake.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore sites changed under an executive order that sought to eliminate “inappropriate content” at national museums, parks and landmarks.

Residents in tornado-ravaged areas in Illinois and Indiana are grappling with damage to their homes and neighborhoods after a strong line of storms barreled through communities south of Chicago.

The return of the screwworm parasite to the U.S. has some politicians trying to figure out who to blame.

U.S. meteorologists say an El Nino has formed.

A reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant in Japan has resumed operations.

A new report by the National Park Service says construction of the 250-foot-high triumphal arch that President Donald Trump wants built near the Lincoln Memorial could occur 20 hours per day, year-round, as officials push to complete the project within three years.

New research shows that extreme floods in coastal areas are becoming more common as climate change causes sea levels to rise.

Even as President Donald Trump boosts coal over clean energy, solar power is hitting new milestones in the U.S. and remains the leading source of new power.

Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one outside Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a pest that could potentially devastate the nation’s cattle industry.

Make sure to take precautions when traveling during extreme summer heat.

Tropical Storm Boris has formed and is expected to bring heavy rain to parts of southern Mexico's Pacific coast.

Colombia’s presidential runoff between Iván Cepeda, an ally of President Gustavo Petro, and lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella, who has been endorsed by U.S. President Donald Trump, could have major implications for the Amazon rainforest, fossil fuel development and Indigenous communities.

The Energy Department says a small nuclear reactor under development at a national lab has reached a crucial milestone that could allow it to produce electricity in the next few years.

A federal judge in Washington has blocked a plan to loosen rules for fishing red snapper in the Atlantic, halting what was expected to be the longest recreational snapper season in years.

Two corporations bid on a handful of leases during the latest oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Popping a cold beer — or two or three — while watching sports at home, at a bar or during a live game is an age-old tradition.

A new study finds that smoke from larger wildfires is reversing more than a decade of American improvements in smog.

President Donald Trump is again seeking to boost the struggling U.S. coal industry.

The National Hurricane Center says the first tropical storm of the Pacific season has formed.

Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen’s home within the hive.

According to a United Nations University report, the environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries.

New York’s attorney general is suing the Trump administration over one of its deals to end an offshore wind project.

A bear has injured four people in a Japanese residential area in the latest case of attacks by the animals in the region.

Flamingos are flocking to the Venetian Lagoon in record numbers as ecological efforts restore damaged wetlands.

In the latest action to undo Biden-era regulations on climate change, the Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed repealing a rule that requires some public companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions and the risks they face from global warming.

A Brazilian court has ruled that officials must restore and preserve Fordlandia.

Residents in the East Java province of Indonesia have scattered flowers and paid their respects and prayed at the edge of a mud lake.

Rescue divers in Laos have safely evacuated the first of five villagers trapped in a cave for over a week due to floodwaters.

Crews have recovered the remains of six of nine workers who were missing after a chemical tank ruptured at at paper mill in Washington state, officials said Thursday.

A new report from the United Nations weather agency gives a three-out-of-four chance that the next five years will average more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures.

Your jeans have probably passed through cotton farms, dye houses and wash facilities before reaching your closet.

Crews are resuming the search for nine people presumed killed at a Washington state paper mill where a chemical tank ruptured.

Federal officials are considering cool water releases for the third consecutive year at Glen Canyon Dam in Northern Arizona this summer to safeguard the humpback chub, a federally protected fish.

A spring heat wave is scorching parts of Western Europe, breaking temperature records and triggering government warnings.

Officials have lifted evacuation orders for final 16,000 residents near a damaged chemical tank in California.

Europe is baking under unseasonal heat that is shattering temperature records and prompting government warnings after deaths were reported at amateur sports events in France.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is warning people to avoid buying gas from Chevron stations over Memorial Day weekend because of the high price at the pump.

Meteorologists predict a developing El Nino could dampen the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, but it won't eliminate storms.

The Trump administration is loosening a federal rule that requires grocery stores and air-conditioning companies to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment.

A heat wave has gripped large parts of India with roads and markets emptying during afternoons.

The U.N. General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to support strong action to prevent climate change despite recent diplomatic efforts by the United States to have the measure withdrawn.

Amid a punishing drought, tariffs and the high cost of fertilizers, farming wheat has become more uncertain as farmers in western Kansas are feeling the impact in their major wheat-producing region.

Climate change is pushing starving gray whales into the San Francisco Bay in unusual numbers, where ship strikes killed at least 40% of the 21 whales found dead last year.

More than 17,000 people are under evacuation orders as a wildfire continues to threaten suburban homes in Southern California.

Both the old best and worst case future scenarios in the fight against climate change are being jettisoned by the world’s top scientists as they prepare the next series of huge United Nations reports.

A biotech company that aims to resurrect lost creatures says it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment.

Divers have recovered the bodies of two Italian divers from an underwater cave in the Maldives.

A wildfire sparked by the fatal crash of a small medical plane in New Mexico has triggered evacuations for a rural area north of the Capitan Mountains and closures in the Lincoln National Forest.

Authorities have ordered thousands of people to evacuate as a wind-driven wildfire threatens suburban homes in Southern California.

Indigenous leaders say that federal contractors are desecrating sacred Native American places and cultural sites at an unprecedented pace in the rush to build more walls on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Hawaii's recent catastrophic flooding has devastated local farms, leaving many farmers struggling.

A great horned owl found stuck in a concrete mixer in Utah is now flying free after recovering at an animal sanctuary.

Global warming is causing rivers to slowly lose oxygen, threatening fish and other lives.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to relax limits that require coal-fired power plants to prevent the release of toxic heavy metals into streams and rivers.

Dust storms, heavy rain, and lightning have damaged homes and killed at least 96 people in northern India.

Two bald eagle hatchlings have been spotted in a Chicago park in what experts believe is a first for the Windy City in more than a century.

The Interior Department is canceling a rule that put public lands conservation on equal footing with development.

President Donald Trump is moving to suspend the federal tax on gasoline to help Americans shoulder surging fuel prices caused by the Iran war.

Use of electric vehicles in Africa is surging, led by Ethiopia, as soaring prices and fuel shortages compel countries to opt for cleaner and cheaper transport.

David Attenborough, the world’s most famous wildlife presenter, is celebrating his 100th birthday on Friday.

Global warming extinctions usually have people picturing the last polar bears or other furry critters disappearing.

Powerful storms that spawned at least three tornadoes tore through several Mississippi counties.

A new report reveals European companies have taken a third of the Indian Ocean's tropical tuna catch.

Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to figure out if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise.

Venezuela insists that a mineral-rich region of Guyana was fraudulently taken in the 19th century.

A late spring snowstorm has started to taper off in Colorado after closing schools, delaying flights and creating slushy conditions for commuters.

Tree cover globally cools nearly half the warming from built-up cities, but it’s doing it more in richer, cooler areas and less in hotter poorer areas where it’s needed most.

A deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that visited Antarctica has highlighted a growing tourism trend.

People in Colorado and Wyoming are getting out their snow shovels as a late-spring storm could bring Denver’s biggest snowfall of the season.

The National Park Service says debris from the demolition of the White House East Wing that was dumped at a nearby public golf course has tested positive for lead, chromium and other toxic metals.

Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation and mercury contamination.

The U.S. stock market rose to records after oil prices eased and companies kept reporting bigger profits for the start of the year than analysts expected.

President Donald Trump's administration supports a proposal to delay rules to protect a vanishing species of whale in favor of commercial fishing interests.

Another severe wildfire season is forecast for the Western U.S. due to record-breaking heat and an abysmal snowpack.

The Iran war has made life even more precarious for millions of foreign workers in the Middle East.

Nine Native American tribes are suing the federal government in a bid to stop exploratory drilling for graphite near a sacred site in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

U.S. stocks fell from their record heights, while oil prices jumped following escalations in the Middle East that may undermine the ceasefire in the war with Iran.

The world’s maritime nations preserved a plan to adopt the first global carbon fee on shipping, as they agreed to keep working on it in the fall and adjourned their meeting.

Mexico City is sinking nearly 10 inches every year, making it one of the world’s fastest-sinking metropolitan areas.

New Zealanders are working to bring the kiwi back to the hills around Wellington.

The U.S. stock market set more records after Apple, Estee Lauder and others joined the list of companies delivering fatter profits for the start of the year than analysts expected.

President Donald Trump has granted a key approval to a major new pipeline that would move oil from Canada into the central U.S. The three-foot-wide Bridger Pipeline Expansion would carry up to 550,000 barrels of oil a day from the Canadian border with Montana down through eastern Montana and Wyoming, where it would link up with another pipeline.

A massive sea lion nicknamed Chonkers is charming tourists and locals at San Francisco's Pier 39.

A Tennessee solar developer is betting that cattle-grazing and solar panels can coexist — and benefit farmers as well as the electric grid.

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The Trump administration is spending nearly $2 billion to get energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects.

Billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer is selling himself as a class traitor in his bid for California governor.

At Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center, a weather station 15 miles south of Boston, staff and volunteers have been using many of the same tools to monitor the weather since it opened in 1885.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is back on Capitol Hill defending the administration's plan to cut in half the EPA's budget.

Four critically endangered mountain bongos arrived in Kenya on their way to their native forests after years in the care of a zoo in the Czech Republic.

The 2022 World Cup tournament in Qatar was moved from summer to winter because of the threat of extreme heat.

Officials battling two large wildfires in southern Georgia say firefighters are bracing for a long battle even after weekend rains boosted their containment efforts.

Ministers and officials are gathered in Colombia for a high-level conference aimed at accelerating the shift away from fossil fuels, with financing emerging as a key challenge.