Hyundai Motor Group confirms it's moving forward with expanding its Georgia plant.

Tax incentives that have saved U.S. residents thousands of dollars on home efficiency upgrades, clean energy installations and electric vehicles are expiring this year.

Australia has set a new target of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by between 62% and 70% below 2005 levels by 2035.

Yellow-crested cockatoos have found a sanctuary in Hong Kong's urban parks, but they face housing troubles similar to their human neighbors.

The suit, filed in 2023 after the launch of SpaceX's Starship in Boca Chica ended in an explosion, accused the agency of not properly assessing environmental impacts.

Playwright David Bar Katz is helping artists facing financial stress through The Relentless Award, the largest annual cash prize in American theater.

The National Academy of Sciences says evidence supporting a 2009 U.S. government finding that climate change threatens public health is “beyond scientific dispute” and that evidence supporting that finding has only grown stronger.

Robert Redford, who died Tuesday at 89, was known for his deep commitment to activism, especially for Native American rights and the environment.

A report by Global Witness reveals that at least 146 land and environmental defenders have been killed or gone missing worldwide in 2024.

“The EPA is taking decisive action to protect the community and the San Jacinto River,” Jackie Medcalf, CEO and Founder of the Texas Health and Environment Alliance (THEA) said. “This is a victory for all of the residents who have been pushing for the cleanup of this environmental hazard for so many years.”

Spain says that this summer was the hottest on record for the country.

Scientists in Colombia’s Amazon are capturing and testing endangered pink river dolphins to monitor mercury contamination from illegal gold mining and deforestation.

Rivian Automotive is starting to build a long-delayed electric vehicle plant in Georgia, despite tough challenges in the U.S. market.

Two dads helped lead Camp Mystic parents to advocate for new camp rules in the Texas Legislature. What they wanted most was to have their daughters back.

Young climate activists and their attorneys who won a landmark global warming trial against the state of Montana are challenging President Donald Trump's energy agenda.

McDonald’s said Monday it plans to invest $200 million over the next seven years to promote regenerative agriculture practices on cattle ranches.

Nearly 200 shipping companies said Monday they want the world’s largest maritime nations to adopt regulations that include the first-ever global fee on greenhouse gases to reduce their sector’s emissions.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians, is making his first visit in four years to the United States.

The soaring price of gold is fueling a mercury boom in central Mexico.

A World Trade Organization agreement aimed at reducing overfishing has taken effect.

Youth in Lahaina, Hawaii, have been struggling since wildfires destroyed their hometown two years ago.

Tornadoes destroyed several homes in southeastern Utah over the weekend, but authorities say there were no reports of people injured.

The California Legislature has voted to extend the state's cap-and-trade program.

President Donald Trump has approved federal disaster aid for six states and tribes following storms and floods this spring and summer.

A European Union court has ruled that nuclear energy and natural gas can be considered environmentally sustainable investments.

A growing population, leaking pipes and changing climate threaten the state’s water supply. Texas lawmakers hope a $20 billion investment will help.

A new study finds well-preserved areas of Amazon rainforest occupied and managed by Indigenous peoples show lower incidences of multiple diseases in the regions around them.

Texas’ Solar for All program was intended to bring solar panels and batteries to low-income neighborhoods and create jobs by training workers to install the technology.

A new study has determined that 55 heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wants to cancel a public land management rule that sought to put conservation on equal footing with industry.

Paradise, California, is slowly recovering from the devastating 2018 Camp Fire.

Indonesian rescuers have recovered the bodies of at least 15 people while authorities say 10 people are missing after flash floods struck two provinces of the archipelago nation.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing a dilemma over the immigration detention center built in the Florida Everglades.

Does Florida’s Everglades National Park represent a slight to development in America.

A Georgia judge says he's going to dismiss racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of trying to stop the construction of a police and firefighter training facility known as “Cop City."

An Associated Press analysis reveals that survivors of major natural disasters in the U.S. are waiting longer for federal aid.

Disaster survivors are waiting longer for federal aid.

Tropical Storm Kiko is creating high surf and rip currents for parts of Hawaii, even as it weakens north of the islands.

Researchers say they have confirmed the presence of an invasive species of tick in Maine for the first time, marking the farthest northeast in the U.S. where the pest has been discovered.

New research suggests that a tiny phytoplankton that is an essential part of the marine food web may decline sharply as oceans warm.

Forecasters say the risk of direct impacts from Hurricane Kiko has decreased.

A new study finds that climate change is increasing sugar consumption in the United States.

At the Port of Los Angeles on a site that once housed oil tanks, seven steel structures that look like small blue boats are lowered into the ocean, where they gently bob up and down with the waves to generate power.

Pakistani officials say rescuers backed by troops have evacuated more than 25,000 people from a city in eastern Pakistan as rising rivers threatened to flood the region.

Former U.S. Congressman John Burton has died at age 92.

Forecasters say Hurricane Kiko is weakening as it continues on a track forecast to take the storm north of the Hawaiian islands in coming days.

An expanding iron-ore mine and a deposit of rare-earth minerals are fragmenting the land in northern Sweden and altering ancient reindeer migration routes.

Peru’s Congress has rejected a long-delayed proposal to create the Yavari Mirim Indigenous Reserve.

Scientists conducting a first-of-its-kind drilling operation have extracted samples of fresh water hiding in massive reservoirs deep under the ocean.

Hurricane Kiko has intensified again to a Category 4 hurricane in the Pacific Ocean.

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein is taking a more collaborative approach with Republican opponents in his first eight months in office despite disagreeing with them on many issues.

India’s clean energy appetite is helping the country’s solar power industry wean itself off imported Chinese parts and continue growing even as it faces a tougher sell to its biggest foreign customer, the United States.

Kapalua Golf Resort has been without irrigation water for seven days as it grows worried about keeping the Plantation course in shape for the PGA Tour season opener.

The federal government has filed two lawsuits against Southern California Edison, alleging the utility’s equipment sparked fires in the Los Angeles area that destroyed thousands of structures and killed 17 people.

The world's largest iceberg, A23A, is breaking into smaller pieces and may not last beyond November.

Rhode Island, Connecticut and the developer of an offshore wind farm that would power 350,000 homes in the two states are suing the Trump administration for stopping the nearly completed project.

Lorena has weakened to a tropical storm, but forecasters warn of life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides in parts of Mexico's Baja California peninsula.

Heavy rains have led to some of the worst flooding and landslides in decades in large parts of Northern India.

Officials say rivers are swelling to dangerous levels in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, forcing more than half a million people to flee their homes in the past 24 hours.

Both legislative chambers adjourned without agreeing on changes to Senate Bill 2, which aimed to create new training and licensing requirements for local officials.

The eastern Mediterranean and Middle East are in the grips of one of their worst droughts in decades, which is drying rivers and lakes, shriveling crops and even leading to water cutoffs in major cities.

A new study says climate change has made extreme weather conditions, like those fueling wildfires in the Iberian Peninsula, 40 times more likely.

The parents of children who died at Camp Mystic advocated for the new legislation, which now heads to Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature.

Marine biologists on Florida's Space Coast have released June Cleaver, a 230-pound loggerhead turtle, back into the ocean.

Two California-based companies accuse the state of government overreach for banning the sale of their products for the next two years.

The House refused Senate changes allowing exports to continue while the state studies its underground water supply. Lawmakers left the Capitol without reaching a compromise.

A new study says the world has far fewer places to securely store carbon dioxide deep underground than previously thought, steeply lowering its potential to help stem global warming.

Search teams have recovered around 100 bodies from a remote village in Sudan's Darfur region after a landslide devastated the area over the weekend.

Officials say nearly 300,000 people have been evacuated in the past 48 hours from flood-hit areas of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, bringing the total number displaced since last month to 1.3 million.

The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Kiko is now a Category 4 storm in the Pacific.

India has warned Pakistan about possible cross-border flooding for the second time in as many weeks as monsoon deluges cause death and widespread destruction in both countries.

Emergency workers in Pakistan's Punjab province have used drones to find people stranded by massive floods.

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has shaken eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border.

Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province is experiencing its worst flood in history, according to a senior official.

Biologists are using drones to scare wolves away from cattle.

Thousands of Americans will head to beaches for one last summer splash this Labor Day weekend, and many of them will arrive at beaches where swimming is not advised because of unsafe levels of fecal contamination.

The Environmental Protection Agency has fired at least eight employees who signed a letter criticizing the agency’s leadership under Administrator Lee Zeldin and President Donald Trump.

A feud over management of one of North America's longest rivers has been simmering in the courts for years.

California energy regulators are postponing implementation of a penalty on oil companies if their profits climb too high.

A lawsuit challenges Hawaii's new tourist tax on cruise ship passengers, claiming it is unconstitutional.

The Transportation Department has canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects.

Florida boasts at least 1,000 freshwater springs, more than any other U.S. state.

Rescuers in Pakistan have been racing to evacuate tens of thousands of people stranded by floods in Punjab province, as floodwater inundated some villages near Lahore.

Oregon lawmakers gathered in Salem on Friday for a special session focused on transportation funding.

Residents of New Orleans are marking the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's devastating landfall on the Gulf Coast.

Japanese officials have released AI-generated videos simulating a potential eruption of Mount Fuji.

Some people spend their entire lives dreaming of that one special day where they walk down the aisle to be married.

A growing number of cranberry bogs in Massachusetts are being converted back to nature as farmers get out of the business.

Experts in Houston have been studying the idea of building massive tunnels to divert floodwaters. Musk’s company wants a piece of the project.

Rescuers in Pakistan's Punjab province are racing to reach stranded families after heavy rain and water from overflowing dams in India caused major rivers to burst their banks.

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat.

A new study says climate change that has driven scorching temperatures and dwindling rainfall made massive wildfires in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus this summer burn much more fiercely.

A decade after 2005's Hurricane Katrina, one Mississippi city began offering property tax breaks to encourage building near the waterfront.

A two-year delay on new mercury rules benefits coal-fired power plants, while chemical plants got an exemption from stricter air pollution standards.

Torrential rainfall has left at least 34 people dead in Pakistan and India and triggered flash floods and landslides in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Heavy rain has caused flooding and landslides in parts of Southeast Asia, where at least eight deaths were reported in the aftermath of a tropical storm.

Efforts to restore the red-legged frog to Southern California, where it had all but disappeared, seemed doomed when the COVID-19 pandemic struck and restrictions were put in place at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Massive walls of dust and debris called haboobs that roll through the U.S. Southwest can be awe-inspiring and terrifying, especially for motorists caught in their path.

In this week’s episode, Matthew and Eleanor talk to Texas Tribune climate reporter Emily Foxhall about the emotional pleas Camp Mystic parents made to state lawmakers and analyze the proposed new laws in response to the Kerrville floods.

Firefighting crews are trying to corral a fast-growing blaze churning through central California’s Sierra National Forest, as forecasters warn that lightning strikes from thunderstorms could spark new ignitions.