ENVIRONMENT

Tornadoes have been forecast for the Black Sea region after a storm left more than 2 million people without electricity in Crimea, Russia and Ukraine.

Dubai is preparing to host the COP28 climate talks as world leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden have signaled they will not be attending the negotiations.

Worries about future water supplies from ancient aquifers are bubbling up in western rural Arizona.

Germany is struggling to find a way out of a budget crisis after a court decision struck down billions in funding for clean energy projects and help for people facing high energy bills because of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

A Sumatran rhino has given birth to a male calf in Indonesia, a welcome addition to a critically endangered species that numbers fewer than 50 animals.

A powerful weekend storm in the Black Sea region toppled trees, tore down power lines and caused coastal flooding, and government officials and media reports said more than half a million people were without power in southern Russia and Ukraine.

A hearing has begun to help determine whether a Georgia railroad can legally condemn property to build a rail line.

Earth's climate is in trouble, and the signs could be seen around the world this summer.

Authorities have recovered the body of an 11-year-old girl from a landslide that smashed into homes in an Alaska fishing village days ago.

Heavy snowfall and strong blizzards in Romania and Moldova have left one person dead and hundreds of localities without electricity as well as forcing the closure of some national roads.

Officials have recovered the flight data recorder from a U.S. Navy airplane that overshot the runway near Honolulu.

The British Antarctic Survey says that one of the world’s largest icebergs is drifting beyond Antarctic waters after being grounded for more than three decades.

The energy used by cars and their CO2 emissions could have dropped by over 30% in the past decade if not for the world’s growing taste for SUVs, a new report from the Global Fuel Economy Initiative suggests.

A growing number of states are working to keep food out of landfills over concerns the waste is taking up too much space and posing environmental problems.

Academics in Mexico City are asking for donations to protect axolotls, an iconic fish-like type of salamander.

Authorities have identified those missing or killed in an Alaska landslide this week as five family members and their neighbor, a commercial fisherman who made a longshot bid for the state's lone seat in the U.S. House last year.

On the eve of international climate talks, U_N_ Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited globally-important Antarctica, where ice that’s been frozen for millions of years is melting due to human-caused climate change, sending the message that “we absolutely need to act immediately.”.

Germany’s economy shrank in recent months, and business confidence is still in the dumps.

When Daniel Skousen scrubs at the ash and soot covering his Maui home, he worries about the smell.

It's been a record-breaking year for sea turtles in Florida.

Officials say rescue teams have resumed searching for three people who remain missing after a landslide ripped through a remote Alaska fishing community this week, killing three others.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is visiting Antarctica just before the COP28 climate talks begin in Dubai.

Electric vehicle sales are expected to hit a record 9% of all passenger vehicles in the U.S. this year, according to Atlas Public Policy.

In Zimbabwe, rains are finally bringing relief to its second-largest national park.

The oil and gas sector, one of the major emitters of planet-warming gases, will need a rapid and substantial overhaul for the world to avoid even worse extremes fueled by human-caused climate change.

First, some families fled drought and violence.

Animal welfare advocates are suing to stop Wisconsin's new wolf management plan.

Peruvian scientists say Peru has lost more than half of its glacier surface in the last six decades due to climate change.

Three people are dead and three others remain missing after a landslide ripped through a remote Alaskan fishing community this week.

President Joe Biden declared an emergency over lead-in-water contamination in the U.S. Virgin Islands earlier this week after tests on St. Croix revealed levels more than 100 times the limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency – among the worst results a U.S. community has seen in decades.

Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana and other northern states are making preparations to stop an invasion of wild pigs from Canada.

A fund to compensate developing nations for the impacts of climate change was the supposed big breakthrough at last year's United Nations-led climate talks in Egypt.

As much as 1.1 million gallons of oil may have been discharged into the Gulf of Mexico from a pipeline system off Louisiana’s southeast coast.

The Biden administration is making $2 billion available to community groups, states and tribes to clean up pollution and develop clean energy in disadvantaged communities in what officials called the largest-ever investment in environmental justice.

Three people have been killed and three more are missing after a landslide ripped through a remote Alaskan fishing community.

With the annual U.N.-led climate summit known as COP to convene later this month in Dubai, activists are urging policymakers to respond to climate change’s disproportionate impact on women and girls.

In a move that may soon be replicated elsewhere, the Gila River Indian Community recently signed an agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to put solar panels over a stretch of irrigation canal on their land south of Phoenix.

A new United Nations report calculates that the globe is speeding to 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius (4.5 to 5.2 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming since pre-industrial times, set to blow well past the agreed upon international climate threshold.

South African abalone, a curious fist-sized sea snail, is a highly prized morsel in East Asia and the unwitting instigator of 30 years of trouble for fishing communities along Africa’s southern coast.

In the first two weeks of November, fires fueled by unusually dry and hot weather destroyed nearly 770,000 hectares (1.9 million acres) of the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands.

Following historic rainfall and flooding earlier this summer, farmers in Graves County, Kentucky sustained field damage and crop loss.

State and federal wildlife agencies have developed a new weapon to slow down invasive carp across the Great Lakes region: traitor fish.

Far off the Texas coast there is a beautiful surprise in the Gulf of Mexico that draws divers from around the world: a stunning amount of coral coverage on undersea mountains.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its “plant hardiness zone map” for the first time in a decade.

Residents in the northern Mexican state of Sonora are battling a new train line that threatens to displace their homes and cut up the local ecosystem.

It’s been a long journey from the forests of Arizona, across the dusty high desert of central New Mexico to the edge of what is known as the Yellowstone of the Southwest for one lone Mexican gray wolf.

The Republican-controlled Texas State Board of Education this week rejected most of the proposed textbooks that include climate science for eighth grade students. Five of 12 were approved.

The Texas education board has approved new textbooks but called on some publishers to change their depictions of fossil fuels in the U.S.'s biggest oil and gas state.

About 16 million people in California will pay higher electric and gas bills next year.

Judges overturned a state air pollution permit that was issued last year, arguing that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality illegally enabled Port Arthur LNG to avoid emissions control requirements.

One of the thorniest problems of the 21st century is how to get people to eat less meat.

Lawyers for the founder of truckmaker Nikola Corp. say he should not face incarceration because his criminal conviction is nothing like what landed Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in prison.

New York state has sued PepsiCo in an effort to hold the soda-and-snack food giant partly responsible for litter that winds up in bodies of water that supply the city of Buffalo with drinking water.

It's still spring in Brazil, but a dangerous heat wave is sweeping the country, prompting health alerts and driving up energy demand as people turn to air conditioning and fans to stay cool.

The Department of Energy is making a push to strengthen the U.S. battery supply chain — the minerals and parts that go into batteries.

European Union negotiators have reached a deal to reduce highly polluting methane gas emissions from the energy sector across the 27-nation bloc.

China and the U.S. have pledged to accelerate their efforts to address climate change ahead of a major U.N. meeting on the issue.

A German thinktank has reported that to prevent global warming from surpassing the critical threshold of 1.5 Celsius, major Asian economies must ensure they can get half of their total electricity from renewables by 2030.

A federal appeals court has ordered the Biden administration to carry on with an auction of oil and gas drilling leases for Gulf of Mexico waters in 37 days — rejecting arguments by environmentalists.

Colombia has begun the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s.

Does Paris have too many SUVs.

Flagship EU legislation that's meant to force European companies to screen out climate harms from their business operations faces being dramatically watered down.

As oil and gas companies struggle to dispose of their wastewater in the Permian Basin, the city of Midland is challenging applications for disposal wells near one of its drinking water sources.

Two global reports say humanity’s fight to curb climate change is failing in dozens of ways with people getting sicker and dying as the world warms and the fossil fuels causing it get more subsidies.

A massive new federal government report says revved-up climate change now permeates Americans’ daily lives with harms that are already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States.

When Hurricane Otis roared into Acapulco Bay on Oct 25 with 165 mile per hour winds, sailor Ruben Torres recorded a 10-second audio message from a yacht called the Sereno.

Police used tear gas and flash-bang grenades to halt a march seeking to stop construction of an Atlanta-area police and firefighter training center.

When it comes to our climate, and slowing the catastrophic effects of global warming, there’s so much information, and scientists are still working to learn more as the world continues to change and evolve over time.

Indigenous ranchers in Texas are receiving help from nonprofits to rebuild bison herds in the state. One family in Sulphur Springs that received five bison last month invited Texas tribal members to see the herd in person.

Efforts to create a landmark treaty to end global plastic pollution are advancing at a meeting where participants are discussing the treaty's draft language for the first time.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been briefly interrupted by a man who approached her on stage after she invited a Palestinian and an Afghan woman to speak at a climate protest in the Dutch capital.

Somali authorities say floods caused by torrential rainfall have killed at least 31 people in various parts of the country.

Water taps flow just one day out of three in Mayotte, a French territory off Africa’s eastern coast.

A wildfire burning in a remote Hawaii rainforest is underscoring a new reality for the normally lush island state just a few months after a devastating blaze on a neighboring island leveled an entire town and killed at least 99 people.

Volunteers are taking part in an effort to extend the habitat of the most emblematic and endangered species of Rio de Janeiro’s rural interior — the golden lion tamarin.

Residents of a fishing town in southwestern Iceland have left their homes after increasing concern about a potential volcanic eruption caused civil defense authorities to declare a state of emergency in the region.

In the face of human-caused climate change impacting water access and weather patterns in the Willamette Valley — a region known for hops growing — farmers are using all the new strategies they can get to stay afloat and provide for large and small breweries alike.

Mexican officials have imposed severe, months-long cuts to Mexico City’s water supply just a month after initial restrictions were ordered as drought dries the capital’s reservoirs.

The Biden administration’s plan to build new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas calls for a “movable” design that frustrates both environmentalists and advocates of stronger border enforcement.

A European company has cancelled plans to build blades for offshore wind turbines in coastal Virginia.

More than two weeks ago Otis went from tropical storm to Category 5 hurricane in a record 12 hours.

French President Emmanuel Macron says melting glaciers pose “an unprecedented challenge for humanity.”.

The Martinsville Independent School District used a federal grant to replace four buses, which started transporting students last month. The principal believes he will save enough money on gas to hire a new teacher.

Australia is offering the island nation of Tuvalu a lifeline to help residents escape the rising seas and increased storms that climate change is bringing.

A pond in Hawaii has turned so bubble-gum pink it could be from the set of “Barbie.”.

A project to build a first-of-a-kind small modular nuclear reactor power plant was terminated Wednesday.

A federal judge has upheld the Biden administration’s approval of the Willow oil-drilling project on Alaska’s remote North Slope, a massive project that drew the ire of environmentalists who accused the president of backpedaling on his pledge to combat climate change.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is monitoring the air quality following a massive fire at the Sound Resource Solutions plant that prompted evacuations and a shelter-in-place in San Jacinto County Wednesday.

The Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, one of Iceland’s biggest tourist attractions, has closed temporarily as a swarm of earthquakes put the island nation’s most populated region on alert for a possible volcanic eruption.

The legislation behind the historic investment directs state agencies to send money to the state’s smaller, cash-strapped towns that have difficulty paying for upgrades. Federal money is also expected to flow to regions that need broadband.

In the vast, high desert of southern Idaho is a place called Minidoka.

The 12 months ending in October were the hottest ever recorded on Earth and likely the planet’s hottest 12-month period ever recorded, according to a report from the nonprofit science research group Climate Central.

Toxic gray smog has sickened tens of thousands of people in Pakistan’s cultural capital of Lahore, forcing authorities to shut schools, markets and parks for four days.

Debate over proposed regulations for deep-sea mining will stretch into next year as a U.N. agency that presides over the international seabed has concluded its last meeting of the year.

The 5.2 magnitude earthquake is tied for the fourth strongest in Texas history. It occurred in an area where oilfield companies have long been injecting wastewater from fracking underground.

Close to 400 people connected to fossil fuel industries in some way or another attended last year’s United Nations climate talks in Egypt.

In the Mediterranean's olive-growing countries, the extreme weather caused by climate change is taking a toll.

October was the fifth straight month that Earth set a record for the hottest month in recorded history.

A new study finds that endangered cheetahs are more likely to hunt at dawn and dusk on hot days, which increases their odds of conflict with other nocturnal predators.

A mix of smoke and fog known as ‘super fog' has triggered accidents involving multiple vehicles and at least one death on Interstate 10 in Louisiana.