Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a disaster declaration for more than half of Texas counties. Conditions are not expected to reach the severity of 2021’s Winter Storm Uri.

That snowflake icon on your smartphone app might be quick and handy — it just might not be as accurate as a human when the weather gets rough.

Floods in Mozambique have led to a new threat.

The Yanacocha Reserve in the Ecuadorian Andes is the last refuge for a tiny hummingbird facing extinction.

Winter has its fans, but even those who enjoy playing in the snow probably dislike the chore of clearing up after a big storm that dumps several inches or even feet of snow and ice.

Davide Cerato will play a major role in skiing and snowboarding events at the upcoming Olympics, but he won’t be competing.

Cleaning up oilfield pollution in arid West Texas is costly and complicated. The bankruptcy process allows companies to move on while the public pays the price.

State and local officials say they’re better prepared than they were five years ago when Winter Storm Uri blanketed the state, killing hundreds and leaving scores without power and water.

Landslides have hit a house and a campground in New Zealand, killing at least two people while emergency crews are trying to rescue people buried in rubble.

Texas is preparing for the coldest temperatures of the season, and forecasters are warning of possible power outages and icy roads in much of the state.

Freezing rain, sleet and snow are expected to hit a large portion of Texas beginning Friday.

An approaching major winter storm is prompting a shuffling of an NBA game and dozens of college basketball games this weekend.

As President Trump marks one year back in office, his EPA has proposed rolling back key air and climate protections, which experts say has already begun to strain Texas’s air quality and public health.

A new study finds that warming temperatures are causing Antarctic penguins to breed earlier, threatening some species with extinction by century's end.

Firefighters in Chile are battling forest fires that have killed at least 19 people and left around 1,500 homeless.

Five men are set to stand trial in Peru over the 2023 killing of an Indigenous Amazon defender.

When you think IMAX, chances are your mind goes to those immersive documentaries that take you inside volcanoes, deep under oceans or to distant planets.

Southern California Edison has filed lawsuits against Los Angeles County, local water agencies and the Southern California Gas Company.

Authorities in Chile say that wildfires raging across central and southern areas of the country have left at least 18 people dead.

Authorities in Austria say five skiers have been killed in a pair of avalanches in the western Salzburg Pongau region.

Longtime climate activist Bill McKibben finds hope in solar energy despite the Trump administration rolling back environmental regulations and freezing offshore wind projects.

A federal judge has ruled that work on a Virginia offshore wind project could resume.

Tourists are bundling up and warming shelters have opened as Florida experiences its coldest weather of the winter season.

A group of German scientists tested the effects of a more acidic ocean on sharks’ teeth and found that future generations of sharks could have weaker teeth because of changing ocean chemistry.

Scientists calculate that last year was one of the three hottest on record, along with 2024 and 2023.

The North American International Auto Show in Detroit once dedicated an entire track on its coveted show floor to getting consumers comfortable with electric vehicles and charging.

A federal judge has cleared the way for a New York offshore wind project to resume construction.

Climate change is driving a global boom in desalination as regions turn to the sea for drinking water.

Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed nine people, including three women, following the U.S. announcement of a second phase in the fragile ceasefire.

Scientists have inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores in an Antarctic vault.

A federal judge is considering whether to set aside a Trump administration order pausing the construction of a major offshore project for New York.

Hundreds of newly released messages add more detail to the devastating timeline of the deadly floods.

The Environmental Protection Agency says it will stop calculating the economic savings of health benefits from air pollution rules.

Belgian biathlete Maya Cloetens is concerned about the future of winter sports in a warming world.

Strong winds have caused at least four deaths in Gaza as walls collapsed onto tents in the coastal territory.

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration acted illegally when it canceled $7.6 billion in clean energy grants for projects in states that voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.

A federal judge ruled Monday that work on a major offshore wind farm for Rhode Island and Connecticut can resume, handing the industry at least a temporary victory as President Donald Trump seeks to shut it down.

After an industrial building boom on Corpus Christi Bay, the city is drilling wells to meet water demand, and rural Nueces County residents say their own wells are being impacted.

Environmental experts warn that U.S. plans under President Donald Trump to restart and control Venezuelan oil exports could intensify pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and ecological damage in a country already burdened by decades of oil-related degradation.

Thousands of homes and businesses across northern France and southern England are without power and residents faced widespread travel delays after a storm swept in off the Atlantic.

U.S. President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the United Nations climate framework marks a significant escalation of anti-climate policy.

Artificial intelligence took center stage at this year's CES gadget show, but not always for the right reasons.

Getting into nature can be challenging during the workday.

Salem Abraham claims Minnesota-based Xcel Energy has not lived up to its promise of protecting the region from wildfires. The company vehemently disagrees.

Guides who take tourists to enjoy the striking views of Sicily’s Mount Etna are up in arms over tougher restrictions imposed by local authorities after a round of eruptions at the giant volcano in recent weeks.

The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.’s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations.

Messy winter weather brought snow, ice, freezing rain and dangerous driving to the New England states as the region prepared for more unpleasant conditions later in the week.

Offshore wind developers and states are suing the Trump administration over its order to suspend work on five large-scale projects under construction off the East Coast for at least 90 days.

Snow and ice are hampering travel in parts of Europe as flights have been grounded and roads clogged.

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Pipeline safety regulators have imposed their largest fine ever on the company responsible for leaking 1.1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast in 2023.

The search for mountain lions in a remote area of Colorado where a solo hiker was fatally attacked last week has ended.

One of the world’s rarest whale species is having more babies this year than in some recent seasons, but experts say many more young are needed to help stave off the possibility of extinction.

The Environmental Protection Agency says it will propose a drinking water limit for perchlorate, a chemical in certain explosives.

It’s been a year of heartbreak and chronic worry since the most destructive wildfires in the Los Angeles area’s history scorched neighborhoods and displaced tens of thousands of people.

Crews cleared mud from key California highways as forecasters warned that more thunderstorms were on the way after downpours and high tides caused flooding, prompting road closures and rescues of people trapped in cars.

A grandmother and her 5-year-old grandson have burned to death in Gaza when their tent caught fire.

Palo Pinto Mountains State Park will be the first to open in North Texas in about 25 years.

Rained poured down on the iconic Rose Parade for the first time in 20 years.

Marching bands, floats and thousands of spectators are bracing for a rare dose of New Year’s Day rain for the prestigious Rose Parade in Southern California.

Forecasters are warning of even more frigid weather in the Midwest after a winter storm pummeled parts of that region as well as the Great Lakes and the Northeast this week.

Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, one of three grandchildren of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died after a battle with leukemia.

For the first time in 20 years, rain is expected to intrude on the Rose Parade in Southern California.

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A surge of arctic air is bringing strong winds, heavy snow and frigid temperatures to the Great Lakes and Northeast, a day after a bomb cyclone that hit the northern U.S. Tens of thousands of customers were without power early Tuesday, with Michigan hardest hit.

Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the hottest years ever recorded.

For the first time in 20 years, rain could be an intruder at the Rose Parade in Southern California.

The Tribune’s team of data journalists produced a congressional redistricting tool, covered several education data releases, visualized the measles outbreak and more.

A strengthening bomb cyclone is barreling across the northern United States, unleashing severe winter weather in the Midwest and aiming at the East Coast.

Another powerful storm system that could cause more flooding and mudslides is rolling across Southern California.

The ruling came in a lawsuit from a group of homeowners and could be appealed. An estimated 14,000 homes were inside the Addicks and Barker reservoirs when Harvey dumped more than 50 inches of rain in 2017.

Heavy rain and gusty winds from a powerful winter storm system are bringing flash floods and mudslides to parts of Southern California.

Federal officials are considering swapping 775 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge with the aerospace company, according to The New York Times.

A stop-work order by the Trump administration directs offshore wind developers to “suspend all ongoing activities” related to five large-scale projects under construction along the East Coast “for the next 90 days for reasons of national security.”.

California officials are urging holiday travelers to avoid the roads on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Flanked by a chemical plant and an oil rig construction yard, the site on Corpus Christi Bay may be the last of its kind on this stretch of coastline, now occupied by petrochemical facilities.

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky.

Once on the brink of extinction, the birds have expanded beyond the protected lands set aside for them in the 1970s.

The Trump administration is suspending leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction on the East Coast due to what it said were national security risks identified by the Pentagon.

Dickson Ngome's farm at Lake Naivasha in Kenya's Rift Valley has been submerged due to rising water levels.

A muddy eruption at Black Diamond Pool in Yellowstone National Park has been captured on camera.

Dozens of energy developers, experts and politicians say there were some highs amid a lot of lows in a roller coaster year for clean energy as President Donald Trump worked to boost polluting fuels while stymying wind and solar.

The National Weather Service has issued a rare warning for part of the Colorado Front Range as hurricane-force winds and tinder dry conditions have boosted the threat of wildfire.

Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways.

Lack of snow is causing problems for ski resorts and other businesses in the Western U.S. that rely on wintry conditions.

Work crews are mopping up but bracing for more after hurricane-force wind downed power lines and fanned wildfires along the Colorado Front Range and onto the Great Plains.

The House has approved bipartisan legislation aimed at speeding up permitting reviews for new energy and infrastructure projects and limiting judicial review.

Partners at the International Crane Foundation and The Conservation Fund have secured permanent protection of more than 3,300 acres of high-priority wintering habitat for whooping cranes near Port Aransas, Texas.

Rainfall this week on Iran's Hormuz Island has briefly transformed the coastline of the famed Red Beach into a striking natural scene.

Bushfires are deadly, they can break out in the blink of an eye and last for days in the vast desert of Mauritania.

India’s air-quality crisis is deepened by unreliable data.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Inspector General will investigate the Trump administration’s termination of $7.6 billion in grants for clean energy projects across several states that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in last year’s presidential election.

A Republican push to make drilling cheaper on federal land is creating new fiscal pressure for states that depend on oil and gas revenue, most notably in New Mexico.

A federal judge has blocked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer from revoking an easement that allows Enbridge to run an oil pipeline through a Great Lakes channel.

The lawsuit alleges Minnesota-based Xcel Energy failed to maintain utility poles that started the 2024 Panhandle fire that killed three people and thousands of livestock.

Sixteen states and the District of Columbia are suing President Donald Trump’s administration for what they say is unlawfully withholding billions of dollars in funding for two electric vehicle charging programs.

Gov. Bob Ferguson says the extent of the damage in Washington state is profound but unclear after more than a week of heavy rains and record flooding.

One of three possible routes would border the North Texas park. The project is part of a statewide effort to keep pace with Texas’ rapidly growing energy needs.

Crews used sandbags to shore up an earthen levee south of Seattle after a small section failed after a week of heavy rains.

A weekend storm has dumped heavy snow on parts of the Northeast, causing flight delays and creating slick roads.