Tropical Storm Lorenzo is churning in the central tropical Atlantic Ocean but is not threatening land, according to forecasters.

Leaf-peeping season has arrived in the Northeast and beyond, but weeks of drought have muted this year’s autumn colors, and sent leaves fluttering to the ground earlier than usual.

Maritime nations have gathered in London to discuss regulations aimed at reducing shipping emissions.

The death toll from last week’s torrential rains in east-central Mexico has jumped to 64.

Forecasters say Tropical Storm Lorenzo has gotten slightly stronger in the central tropical Atlantic Ocean but still is not threatening land.

Before white settlers came to Onondaga Lake and the city of Syracuse grew along its shore, it was a sacred place for the Onondaga Nation.

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so.

During a Friday state hearing, parents of July 4 flood victims said camps should prioritize the safety even if costs are high.

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction and more than half of bird species around the world are declining.

Tropical weather in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans is causing dangerous conditions in the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean.

A private energy company is abandoning a proposal to store nuclear waste at a site in southeastern New Mexico.

Senate Republicans have voted to roll back restrictions on mining and drilling in federal land in three Western states.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill to prevent the state’s plan that provides insurance to homeowners who can’t get private coverage from running out of money.

A federal judge has ordered a man charged in California’s deadly Palisades Fire to remain jailed amid concerns about his mental health.

Meteorologists say La Nina has arrived, bringing cooler weather patterns worldwide.

Ferrari has raised its 2025 financial forecast despite facing 15% tariffs on foreign car imports to the U.S. The company on Thursday unveiled the powertrain and chassis of its first fully electric vehicle the Ferrari Elettrica set for delivery late next year.

Leaders of the effort say they moved to rural Hood County for its quiet country charm, which was shattered by what locals call “that roar” from the facility.

Tropical Storm Raymond has formed in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

A Canadian government official familiar with the matter says Prime Minister Mark Carney raised the prospect of reviving the contentious Keystone XL pipeline project during his White House meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump this week.

Authorities have charged a 29-year-old man with igniting the January fire that destroyed Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades neighborhood.

Priscilla has lost hurricane strength as it churns off Mexico's western Pacific coast ever closer to the Baja California peninsula.

The white sandy beaches along a swath of Florida’s Gulf Coast were battered by three hurricanes last year, leading to a multimillion-dollar effort to repair a coastline that is the region’s economic engine.

The announcement comes six weeks after a judge struck down the local school district’s decision to give Exxon a tax break for the $10 billion plant in Calhoun County.

Buildings in the U.S. are turning to ice batteries for air conditioning — a technology that freezes water into ice at night when electricity is cheap and lets it thaw during the day to cool indoor spaces.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Jerry has strengthened in the Atlantic Ocean on a path toward the Caribbean.

Early-season snowfalls have stranded hikers in two mountainous areas in western China, including several hundred at the base of Mount Everest.

A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.

President Donald Trump on Monday ordered approval of a proposed 211-mile road through an Alaska wilderness to allow mining of copper, cobalt, gold and other minerals.

A Navajo tribe-owned company has bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana.

Several groups and nonprofit organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency over the canceling of a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans.

Meteorologists say a deadly tornado in North Dakota this summer has been upgraded to a top-of-the-scale EF5, and was the first on American soil in 12 years.

Southern right whales, after coming back from the brink of extinction, are swimming in greater numbers off the coast of Argentina’s Patagonia this year.

U.S. government lawyers say detainees at the Florida Everglades immigration detention center, known as "Alligator Alcatraz," likely include people who have never been in removal proceedings.

Rescuers are scouring India's tea-growing hill district of Darjeeling in the search for several missing people.

Hurricane Priscilla was strengthening early Monday in the Pacific Ocean with heavy rain and gusty winds threatening coastal areas of southwest Mexico.

Typhoon Matmo has strengthened before making landfall in China, leading to the evacuation of around 347,000 people from Guangdong and Hainan provinces.

Residents of the tiny village in southern Bosnia were marking one year since devastating floods and a landslide killed 19 people.

Several NFL stadiums in the U.S. are among the most sustainable sports venues in the world because of their solar panels, rainwater collection systems and on-site composting and recycling programs.

U.S. officials in coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade.

Lithium-ion batteries are increasingly being used to store power for electrical grids, but some localities are concerned about fire risks.

Federal officials have reimbursed Florida $608 million for an immigration detention center in the Everglades.

Have you heard replacing meat with plant-based foods is better for the planet and can be better for your health too, but you don’t know where to start.

A typhoon is blowing into the northern Philippines and complicating the disaster response to a deadly earthquake in a central province and two other recent storms.

Scientists are presenting new evidence that the worst effects of climate change can’t be avoided without a major transformation of food systems.

In the wake of Jane Goodall's death, the many scientists and others influenced by her are promising to do their best to carry on her legacy.

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state produced plutonium for most of America's nuclear arsenal through the end of the Cold War.

A new study shows that the world's most damaging wildfires are happening four times more often now compared to the 1980s.

The Trump administration has announced the cancellation of $7.6 billion intended for clean energy projects across 16 states.

Local leaders see data centers, which help power the world’s shift to artificial intelligence, as a way to keep their towns open. Residents worry their way of life — and water — is at stake.

The death toll in a powerful earthquake that hit the central Philippines late Tuesday has risen to 72 with nearly 300 others injured.

Crews across Bermuda have started clearing streets after Hurricane Imelda swiped past the tiny British territory as a Category 2 storm, downing trees, power lines and transformers.

Tributes are pouring in from around the world honoring the life and influence of famed primatologist Jane Goodall.

Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died.

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Domestic goats are reaching new heights on Vermont's ski slopes.

Hurricane Imelda is nearly on top of Bermuda as a Category 2 storm that forecasters have warned is expected to bring potentially destructive weather to the British territory.

The U.S. government is taking a minority stake in Lithium Americas, a company that is developing one of the world’s largest lithium mines in northern Nevada.

Swiss glaciers have faced significant melting this year, with a 3% drop in total volume, marking the fourth-largest annual decline on record.

The Environmental Protection Agency faces challenges during a government shutdown.

Six unoccupied houses along North Carolina’s Outer Banks have collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean.

This week, Matthew and Eleanor speak with Eric Goff, founder of an energy policy advising firm, about the growth of wind and solar power in Texas and whether it will continue after recent federal efforts targeting the industry.

Georgia farmers are still waiting for aid after Hurricane Helene, even as other states finalize agreements.

A wealthy enclave in Southern California that has been threatened for years by worsening landslides faced more land movement this week, but it suffered minimal damage.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is throwing his weight behind the Vatican’s environmental initiative.

More online platforms are giving secondhand shopping a digital upgrade, rolling out features like livestream shopping and AI-powered search to make thrifting faster and more exciting.

Scientists warn that “flying rivers” — invisible streams of moisture that carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean westward across the Amazon — are weakening as deforestation and climate change advance.

Almost one-third of Americans live in areas like Travis County’s Sandy Creek, where disaster aid can be spotty.

Lingering heavy rains from a former typhoon caused more flooding and landslides in Vietnam, raising the death toll to at least 26, with more missing.

The Trump administration said it will open 13 million acres of federal lands for coal mining and provide $625 million to recommission or modernize coal-fired power plants.

Air travel results in a lot of planet-warming emissions, but it's also sometimes necessary.

Texas’ congressional delegation obtained tentative funding for infrastructure improvements, university research and other initiatives, but the nearly 350 earmarks are all in jeopardy.

Authorities in the Bahamas have closed a majority of schools following mandatory evacuations for some islands in the archipelago as Tropical Storm Imelda drops heavy rain and unleashes flooding in the northern Caribbean, with two people killed in Cuba.

New Zealand’s annual bird election has crowned the kārearea, or New Zealand falcon, as Bird of the Year.

Tropical Storm Imelda has formed near the Bahamas and is forecast to become a hurricane curving away from the southeast U.S. seacoast early this week.

Vietnam has evacuated thousands from its central and northern provinces as Typhoon Bualoi approaches faster than expected.

Suriname has pledged to permanently protect 90% of its forests, far surpassing the global 30x30 goal.

A rare interaction between two tropical storms could happen soon in the Caribbean.

Crews have been preparing for a weather system forecast to hit South Carolina as a hurricane early next week.

Crews are preparing for a weather system forecast to near South Carolina as a hurricane early next week.

The U.N. cultural agency UNESCO has designated 26 new biosphere reserves.

The people of Seychelles are voting in an election to choose a new leader and parliament.

The White House is moving forward with a deal that would allow the U.S. government to take a small equity stake in a Canadian company that is developing one of the world’s largest lithium mines.

President Donald Trump's transportation department has been reversing grants for recreational trails and bicycle lanes.

A group of former national park superintendents is calling on the Trump administration to close the parks to visitors in case of a government shutdown.

Australian scientists have tested bite-resistant wetsuits by letting sharks bite them at sea.

The many conferences on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly’s annual gathering of world leaders offer a unique forum for companies and philanthropies to help shape an uncertain future.

A tropical storm has blown out of the Philippines and left at least 10 dead and prompted the evacuations of more than 430,000 people from landslide- and flood-prone villages.

Grand Canyon National Park will soon reopen portions of the North Rim to public access in the aftermath of a wildfire that destroyed a historic lodge and dozens of structures.

At the United Nations this week, four leaders showed why tackling climate change is complex.

NASA has released the first radar images from a new Earth-mapping satellite showing the Maine coast and Minnesota farmland in incredible detail.

The former Hurricane Gabrielle is expected to bring heavy rain, high winds and a storm surge to the Azores islands despite forecasters downgrading the system.

An undersea submersible has spotted crabs, worms and fish thriving on the surfaces of World War II explosives thought to be toxic to marine life.

A weakened Tropical Cyclone Ragasa is pushing west along the southern Chinese coast toward Vietnam.

A federal judge has ruled that it’s unconstitutional to require states to cooperate on immigration enforcement actions to get funding for disasters.

Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy said Wednesday it expects to pay about $640 million to settle lawsuits alleging it was responsible for starting Colorado’s most destructive wildfire that killed two people and destroyed nearly 1,000 homes in 2021.

China, the world’s largest carbon polluting nation, has announced a new climate fighting goal to cut emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035.

Brazilian authorities say a small aircraft has crashed in Brazil, killing four people including distinguished Chinese architect and urbanist Yu Kongjian.

A cluster of space weather satellites has blasted off to cast fresh eyes on solar storms.

Tropical Storm Humberto has formed in the Atlantic Ocean at the same time Hurricane Gabrielle races toward the Azores islands.

Humans first began foraging for food some 12,000 years ago, long before they developed agricultural tools that overshadowed the ancient act that helped sustain early humans.