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Notable 2024 U.S. landfalling hurricanes strengthened by climate change

Heating up: How a warming world supercharges hurricanes

Read full article: Heating up: How a warming world supercharges hurricanes

Groundbreaking study shows the link between a warmer ocean and hurricane intensity

For nearly a decade, KPRC 2 and the Houston Zoo have partnered to share stories of conservation efforts around the globe.

‘Saving Wildlife: Return to Rwanda’

Read full article: ‘Saving Wildlife: Return to Rwanda’

We proudly present: Saving Wildlife: Return to Rwanda, a captivating one-hour special that highlights the remarkable efforts of the Houston Zoo to protect endangered animals in their natural habitats.

Check out fun and easy ways you can save wildlife with your family

Saving birds across Houston skies

Read full article: Saving birds across Houston skies

More than a billion birds fly over Houston’s night skies during migration season, and there are simple things Houstonians can do to keep them safe during their journey.

Eco-friendly living

Eco-friendly living: Tips for sustainable parenting

Read full article: Eco-friendly living: Tips for sustainable parenting

Practical tips for starting your sustainability journey.

An entire team of NOAA scientists studies the coral reef

Day 2: Diving in to discover the beauty and mystery of the Flower Gardens in the Gulf 🦈

Read full article: Day 2: Diving in to discover the beauty and mystery of the Flower Gardens in the Gulf 🦈

An entire team of NOAA scientists works to study the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary

Coming back to the boat I ran into this guy. (Don't get too close.)

🪸Saving the garden in the Gulf of Mexico🐠

Read full article: 🪸Saving the garden in the Gulf of Mexico🐠

KPRC 2 chief meteorologist Anthony Yanez is on assignment at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary

MORE HEADLINES


FILE - EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin attends a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission Event in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
2 hours ago

EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs

Read full article: EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs

The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees.

FILE - Debris lays in front of Impact Plastics Inc. in Erwin, Tenn., Nov. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)
3 hours ago

The owner of the Tennessee factory where workers drowned after Hurricane Helene won't face charges

Read full article: The owner of the Tennessee factory where workers drowned after Hurricane Helene won't face charges

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.

Debris from January wildfires is processed at a recycling facility set up on a golf course in Altadena, Calif., Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
11 hours ago

LA fires charred homes into piles of metal and concrete. By recycling them, they're given new life

Read full article: LA fires charred homes into piles of metal and concrete. By recycling them, they're given new life

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.

FILEL - Energy Secretary Chris Wright holds a report concerning U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as he speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington, on March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
19 hours ago

Trump’s tariff pressure pushes Asia toward American LNG, but at the cost of climate goals

Read full article: Trump’s tariff pressure pushes Asia toward American LNG, but at the cost of climate goals

Asian countries are offering to buy more U.S. liquefied natural gas to ease trade tensions with the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony to sign the "Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act," in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, July 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
23 hours ago

Trump offers regulatory relief for coal, iron ore and chemical industries

Read full article: Trump offers regulatory relief for coal, iron ore and chemical industries

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.

In this image provided by Tim Hatfield, cars leave Homer Spit on Wednesday, July 16, 2025, in Homer, Alaska. (Tim Hatfield via AP)
1 day ago

Alaska is the most earthquake-prone state. Here is why Wednesday's earthquake was notable

Read full article: Alaska is the most earthquake-prone state. Here is why Wednesday's earthquake was notable

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.

FILE - The nearly $3 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project along the Mississippi River, intended to stave off coastal land loss in southeastern Louisiana, is seen during a flyover with the environmental coalition group Restore the Mississippi River Delta, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Brook, File)
23 hours ago

Louisiana cancels $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by oil spill settlement

Read full article: Louisiana cancels $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by oil spill settlement

Louisiana is officially canceling a $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement.

FILE - Pumpjacks operate in the foreground while a wind turbines at the Buckeye Wind Energy wind farm rise in the distance Monday, Sept. 30, 2024, near Hays, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
1 day ago

Interior Secretary Burgum must personally approve all wind and solar projects, a new order says

Read full article: Interior Secretary Burgum must personally approve all wind and solar projects, a new order says

All solar and wind energy projects on federal lands and waters must be personally approved by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.

An employee surveys the damage at the Great Outdoor Provision Co. after it was flooded during tropical storm Chantal, Monday, July 7, 2025, in Chapel Hill, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward)
1 day ago

Severe weather in tropical storm's wake triggers North Carolina state of emergency

Read full article: Severe weather in tropical storm's wake triggers North Carolina state of emergency

North Carolina has declared a state of emergency after Tropical Storm Chantal caused severe flooding and at least six deaths.

FILE - Steve Miller performs at 92NY, Oct. 1, 2023, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
1 day ago

Steve Miller Band says extreme weather is so dangerous it’s canceling its tour

Read full article: Steve Miller Band says extreme weather is so dangerous it’s canceling its tour

The Steve Miller Band has canceled its U.S. tour, citing extreme weather as a safety concern for fans and crew.

Danny Westergaard cools off in the shade while taking a short break during the Badwater 135 Ultramarathon, Tuesday, July 8, 2025, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. (AP Photo/John Locher)
1 day ago

The grueling 135-mile journey of a 66-year-old runner through one of the hottest places on Earth

Read full article: The grueling 135-mile journey of a 66-year-old runner through one of the hottest places on Earth

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.

Dogs are seen at Animal Care and Control on Tuesday, July 8, 2025 in West Palm Beach, Fla. The shelter is educating the public on how to protect animals from dangers like heat stroke and dehydration. (AP Photo/Cody Jackson)
1 day ago

Keeping animals of all sizes, from cats to horses, cool during record heat

Read full article: Keeping animals of all sizes, from cats to horses, cool during record heat

With record temperatures hitting the U.S., pet owners have to protect their four-legged family members from dangers like heat stroke and dehydration.

FILE - Debris covers the area of Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, Monday, July 7, 2025, after a flash flood swept through the area. (AP Photo/Eli Hartman, File)
2 days ago

Camp Mystic leader may not have seen urgent alert before Texas flood, family spokesman says

Read full article: Camp Mystic leader may not have seen urgent alert before Texas flood, family spokesman says

A spokesman for Camp Mystic, the Texas enclave devastated by a July 4 flash flood, is raising concerns about communication failures during the disaster.

FILE - Members of the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors listen to members of the public during a meeting May 8, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)
2 days ago

Federal utility backs off Tennessee gas plant site after John Rich says he enlisted Trump's help

Read full article: Federal utility backs off Tennessee gas plant site after John Rich says he enlisted Trump's help

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.

CLIMATE HEADLINES


FILE - EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin attends a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission Event in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
2 hours ago

EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs

Read full article: EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs
FILE - Debris lays in front of Impact Plastics Inc. in Erwin, Tenn., Nov. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)
3 hours ago

The owner of the Tennessee factory where workers drowned after Hurricane Helene won't face charges

Read full article: The owner of the Tennessee factory where workers drowned after Hurricane Helene won't face charges
Debris from January wildfires is processed at a recycling facility set up on a golf course in Altadena, Calif., Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
11 hours ago

LA fires charred homes into piles of metal and concrete. By recycling them, they're given new life

Read full article: LA fires charred homes into piles of metal and concrete. By recycling them, they're given new life
FILEL - Energy Secretary Chris Wright holds a report concerning U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as he speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington, on March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
19 hours ago

Trump’s tariff pressure pushes Asia toward American LNG, but at the cost of climate goals

Read full article: Trump’s tariff pressure pushes Asia toward American LNG, but at the cost of climate goals

NEWS HEADLINES


FILE - This undated booking photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Corrections shows Byron Black. (Tennessee Department of Corrections via AP, File)
55 minutes ago

Judge orders Tennessee to turn off inmate's heart-regulating implanted device at execution

Read full article: Judge orders Tennessee to turn off inmate's heart-regulating implanted device at execution
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1 hour ago

Houston woman says repair shop sold her car without permission, and she still hasn’t been paid, despite winning in court

Read full article: Houston woman says repair shop sold her car without permission, and she still hasn’t been paid, despite winning in court
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1 hour ago

River Oaks community remembers 4 members of the Burgess family killed in Hill Country floods

Read full article: River Oaks community remembers 4 members of the Burgess family killed in Hill Country floods
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1 hour ago

Lakefront short-term rental confrontation highlights issues between permanent residents and renters

Read full article: Lakefront short-term rental confrontation highlights issues between permanent residents and renters
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1 day ago

A tsunami warning is in effect along parts of Alaska’s southern coast after 7.3 magnitude earthquake

Read full article: A tsunami warning is in effect along parts of Alaska’s southern coast after 7.3 magnitude earthquake

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.

FILE - President Donald Trump speaks at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Sept. 1, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
2 days ago

20 states sue FEMA for canceling grant program that guards against natural disasters

Read full article: 20 states sue FEMA for canceling grant program that guards against natural disasters

Twenty Democratic-led states have filed a lawsuit against the Federal Emergency Management Agency over the cancellation of a disaster mitigation grant program.

A laboratory worker holds a cross section of TRISO fuel Friday, June 27, 2025, in Oak Ridge, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
2 days ago

A look inside a lab making the advanced fuel to power growing US nuclear energy ambitions

Read full article: A look inside a lab making the advanced fuel to power growing US nuclear energy ambitions

At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, a half-dozen workers are making what appear to be gray billiard balls.

FILE - Al Ain's Park Yong-woo splashes his face to cool off during the Club World Cup Group G soccer match between Wydad AC and Al Ain FC in Washington, June 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
2 days ago

How climate change could force FIFA to rethink the World Cup calendar

Read full article: How climate change could force FIFA to rethink the World Cup calendar

Soccer faces growing challenges from extreme heat, as seen during the FIFA Club World Cup in the U.S. this summer.

In this photo provided by the Shark Bay Dolphin Research Project, a bottlenose dolphin wearing a marine sponge on its nose to forage swims in Shark Bay, Australia, 2023. (Meredith MacQueeney/Shark Bay Dolphin Research Project via AP)
2 days ago

Some Australian dolphins use sponges to hunt fish, but it's harder than it looks

Read full article: Some Australian dolphins use sponges to hunt fish, but it's harder than it looks

Some dolphins in Australia use sponges on their noses to hunt fish, a skill passed down through generations.

Smoke from the Dragon Bravo Fire moves down the Grand Canyon from the North Rim Tuesday, July 15, 2025, in Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
3 days ago

National Park Service defends the handling of lightning-sparked blaze that destroyed historic lodge

Read full article: National Park Service defends the handling of lightning-sparked blaze that destroyed historic lodge

The National Park Service is defending its handling of a lightning-sparked wildfire that destroyed the Grand Canyon Lodge.

FILE - This 2024 photo provided by MP Materials shows an aerial view of the company's mine in Mountain Pass, Calif. (MP Materials via AP, File)
3 days ago

America's only rare earth producer gets a boost from Apple and Pentagon agreements

Read full article: America's only rare earth producer gets a boost from Apple and Pentagon agreements

MP Materials, the operator of the only rare earths mine in the United States, has signed a $500 million deal with Apple.

A pedestrian walks along a street during a rain shower Tuesday, July 15, 2025, in Orlando, Fla., as tropical weather moves over the state. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
3 days ago

System over Florida has potential to develop into tropical depression, weather service says

Read full article: System over Florida has potential to develop into tropical depression, weather service says

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.

Kayakers pause before paddling the last couple of miles of the Klamath River to reach the Pacific Ocean on Friday, July 11, 2025, in Klamath, Calif. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)
3 days ago

Native American teens kayak major US river to celebrate removal of dams and return of salmon

Read full article: Native American teens kayak major US river to celebrate removal of dams and return of salmon

A group of several dozen Indigenous youth from across the Klamath Basin recently emerged victorious after a month-long journey paddling the Klamath River.

FILE - Workers on scaffolding repaint the NASA logo near the top of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., May 20, 2020. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
3 days ago

Trump administration says it won’t publish major climate change report on NASA website as promised

Read full article: Trump administration says it won’t publish major climate change report on NASA website as promised

The Trump administration has made it harder for people, local and state governments to find critical climate change reports.

Fashion designer Caroline Zimbalist poses in her studio on Friday, June 6, 2025, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)
3 days ago

A designer dressed Chappell Roan with seaweed. But don't expect to find the approach in stores — yet

Read full article: A designer dressed Chappell Roan with seaweed. But don't expect to find the approach in stores — yet

Fast fashion relies heavily on synthetic fibers that are made from oil and gas, fossil fuels that cause climate change.

FILE - People purchase air conditioners at a shop on a hot summer day in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan, File)

India wants air conditioners to be made with milder temperature settings to save energy

Read full article: India wants air conditioners to be made with milder temperature settings to save energy

The Indian government has proposed requiring the lowest temperature setting on all new air conditioners to be 20 Celsius, or 68 Fahrenheit.

The Liberian-flagged bulk carrier Eternity C is seen near Cathlamet, Oregon, July 23, 2019. (Mike Cullom via AP)

Search ends for those missing after Yemen's Houthi rebels sink ship in Red Sea

Read full article: Search ends for those missing after Yemen's Houthi rebels sink ship in Red Sea

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.

In this photo provided by Pannonhalma Archabbey, a restorer shows an old book with holes in its pages due to a drugstore beetle infestation, at the Pannonhalma Archabbey's library in Pannonhalma, Hungary, Thursday, July 3, 2025, as a beetle infestation threatens its ancient collection. (Pannonhalma Archabbey via AP)

Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation

Read full article: Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation

A medieval abbey in Hungary is battling a beetle infestation threatening its ancient book collection.

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