The horror of the 2011 Joplin tornado is the subject of a new documentary film.

A beloved bald eagle who gained popularity after incubating a rock is mourned after dying from head trauma sustained during violent storms in Missouri last week.

With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations.

As President Donald Trump's administration seeks to roll back funding for transit, walking and biking projects, some states are trying to advance them on their own.

Decades of road salt use is taking a toll on New York City’s water reservoirs.

Friday, March 21 marks the inaugural World Glacier Day, an international observance established by the United Nations to raise awareness about the rapid retreat of glaciers worldwide.

Residents of the Tuscan beach enclave of Orbetello are seeking a state of emergency declaration to help combat an invasion of midges that are keeping people indoors and threatening businesses catering to tourists.

The most recent eruption episode of Hawaii’s most active volcano has ended after sending fountains of lava hundreds of feet into the sky.

Wildfires fueled by dry conditions and gusting winds are burning in a few states in the South.

A North Dakota jury has found Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions of dollars to a pipeline company in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.

Wildland firefighters will keep a four-year-old pay hike under a GOP-led spending bill signed by President Donald Trump.

Escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and Europe are being closely watched in California’s already struggling iconic wine industry.

A North Dakota jury has found Greenpeace liable for defamation and other claims in connection with protests against an oil pipeline's construction.

Another storm system is affecting millions of people in the middle of the U.S. Parts of the Midwest and Great Plains faced blizzard conditions Wednesday and a broad swath of neighboring states are at risk of high winds and wildfires.

Traffic is now flowing in and out of the Florida Keys after a brush fire led officials to briefly close U.S. 1, snarling traffic for hours for those trying to enter or leave the island chain.

Last year was the hottest year on record, the top 10 hottest years were all in the past decade and planet-heating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is at its highest levels in the last 800,000 years, a report Wednesday said.

A proposal to create a statewide system connecting emergency personnel and agencies is among several bills that target problems exposed in 2024.

The central Dutch city of Utrecht has installed a “fish doorbell” that lets viewers of an online livestream help fish in their springtime swim to shallow spawning grounds.

Commercial fishermen and seafood processors and distributors seeking to convert to new, lower-carbon emission systems say they are finding federal funding they were counting on for the work is frozen or unavailable in the wake of sweeping budget cuts touted by President Donald Trump.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from terminating $14 billion in grants awarded to three climate groups by the Biden administration.

Last September, torrential rains swept across West and Central Africa, causing devastating floods.

Dust storms and at least two brush fires have descended on New Mexico.

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research program and could fire more than 1,000 scientists and other employees who help provide the scientific foundation for rules safeguarding human health and the environment.

America's ports have long struggled with dirty air that chokes nearby neighborhoods and jeopardizes the health of people living there.

A new report identifies ways to create resilient water and wastewater systems in communities hardest hit by climate change.

The rapidly-growing sinkhole in Upton County is the latest of many problems caused by old wells in the Permian Basin.

Emergency services in southern Spain are searching for a married couple after flash floods swept away their vehicle as rising waters prompted the evacuation of hundreds of homes.

China's energy and auto giant BYD has announced a super fast EV charging system that it says is nearly as quick as a fill up at the pumps.

States with aggressive climate goals like Oregon are facing a conundrum.

Recent local wildfires have sent air quality on a roller coaster ride, leaving residents searching for ways to protect themselves from the fluctuating conditions.

A new study out Monday finds that even in the most optimistic scenarios, grass-fed beef is no less carbon-intensive than industrial beef.

Residents and work crews in the South and Midwest are beginning to clean up and survey the destruction from a three-day outbreak of severe weather.

A German court has started hearing a Peruvian farmer’s case against major energy company RWE.

Most lawmakers — as well as Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick — want to invest big in water. Here are the proposals that would do it.

A North Dakota jury has begun deliberating on whether Greenpeace defamed a pipeline company and disrupted its controversial Dakota Access Pipeline project.

Predictions of a dangerous weekend weather came true as a dynamic storm system spawned tornadoes, dust storms and wildfires that killed more than 40 people across eight states.

In the Central Mamuju district of Indonesia’s West Sulawesi, where the Budong-Budong River meets the sea, people have long feared crocodiles.

Oklahomans are assessing the devastation after wildfires damaged or destroyed hundreds of homes around the state during a severe weather outbreak.

Residents are surveying damage from unusually vicious weather in multiple U.S. states where violent twisters, blinding dust storms and fast-moving wildfires decimated entire neighborhoods.

Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia are working with businesses and other organizations to protect their crops against the bitter impacts of climate change.

The Russian captain of a cargo ship that collided with a U.S. tanker earlier this week appeared in a U.K. court where he was remanded in custody over the death of a crew member, who is missing and presumed dead.

A dynamic storm system threatening to spawn powerful tornadoes and hail as big as baseballs has earned a relatively rare designation from forecasters.

Authorities and environmentalists in Zambia fear the long-term impact of an acid spill at a Chinese-owned mine that poisoned a major river and could potentially affect millions of people after signs of pollution were detected at least 100 kilometers downstream.

Experts are warning that Trump administration workforce cuts at federal agencies overseeing U.S. dams are threatening their ability to provide reliable electricity, supply water to farmers and protect communities from floods.

British police said the Russian captain of a cargo ship that collided with a U.S. tanker has been charged over the death of a crew member, who is missing and presumed dead.

Three former Environmental Protection Agency leaders say rollbacks proposed by the Trump administration endanger the lives of millions of Americans and abandon the agency’s mission to protect the environment and human health.

Wombats are furry, nocturnal marsupials found only in Australia.

A groundbreaking climate lawsuit is heading to trial in Germany next week, with Peruvian farmer Saúl Luciano Lliuya challenging German energy giant RWE.

Florida’s citrus growers are struggling to survive the one-two punch of hurricanes and disease.

The state House and Senate have similar proposals to solve the state's water crisis, but there are stark differences on how to invest billions of dollars to resolve.

More than 100 million people in the U.S. are in the path of an expected massive March storm starting Friday.

A lawyer has argued in a London Court that global mining giant BHP should be held liable for Brazil’s worst environmental disaster 10 years ago when a dam collapse released toxic mining waste that killed 19 people and devastated villages.

Water is complex. So are the terms used to describe it. Get to know the language as Texas debates how to save its water supply.

The state’s water supply faces numerous threats. And by one estimate, the state’s municipal supply will not meet demand by 2030 if there’s a severe drought and no water solutions are implemented.

European Union leaders have announced a 4.7 billion euro, or about $5.1 billion, investment package in South Africa to support green energy transition and vaccine production.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday announced nearly three dozen deregulatory moves that he said would spur the U.S. economy by rolling back rules that have unfairly burdened industry.

The company behind an $8.9 billion carbon-capture pipeline proposed for five Midwestern states says it wants to indefinitely delay its plans after South Dakota passed a law limiting its ability to acquire land for the project.

The bill would have set deadlines for the oil and gas industry to plug inactive wells, which can pose a danger to the environment.

A volcano near Alaska’s largest city is showing new signs of unrest, with experts saying the likelihood of an eruption at Mount Spurr in the next few weeks or months has increased.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a series of actions to roll back landmark environmental regulations, including rules on pollution from coal-fired power plants, climate change and electric vehicles.

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced it will reconsider the reach of the nation’s bedrock clean water law and likely further limit the wetlands it covers.

The Environmental Protection Agency said it has terminated grant agreements worth $20 billion issued by the Biden administration under a so-called green bank to finance climate-friendly projects.

The deep cuts across federal agencies since Donald Trump’s return to the White House include reductions in force, which mean not only layoffs but also elimination of positions altogether.

A new study finds that atmospheric rivers — the heavy rain and wind events most known for dousing California and other parts of the West — have been getting bigger, wetter and more frequent in the past 45 years as the world warms.

The captain of a cargo ship that collided with a U.S. tanker is a Russian national who remains in U.K. police custody.

A baby sea lion toting an artificial kelp strip has been filmed performing intricate rhythmic gymnastics-esque circles through the waters of a Washington state aquarium.

The Associated Press has obtained a document showing that the Trump administration is halting a $1 billion program that helps preserve affordable housing.

A more than 40-mile long conveyor belt filled with sand stretches from the oil fields of West Texas to New Mexico, all for the purpose of one mission: oil production.

Authorities say a man passing through security at a New Jersey airport was found to have a live turtle concealed in his pants.

An erupting Hawaii volcano is shooting fountains of lava hundreds of feet into the sky.

Explorers have discovered the sunken wreckage of one of the first steel cargo ships to travel the Great Lakes.

Police say they have opened a criminal investigation into a collision between two ships in the North Sea and have arrested a man on suspicion of manslaughter.

China has wrapped up its biggest political event of the year leaving one question unanswered: How far will it go to try to revive economic growth in 2025.

Most of the world has dirty air, with just 17% of global cities meeting WHO air pollution guidelines, a report Tuesday found.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers urge the Trump administration to scrap plans to kill more than 450,000 invasive barred owls in West Coast forests in coming decades.

Farmers and elected officials told a Senate committee Monday that the lack of water is becoming dire, with little relief in sight.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has rescinded two Biden-era memos that had state agencies consider social and environmental justice factors when making decisions concerning critical national infrastructure work.

As near temperatures climbed to near records in parts of the central United States, a potent storm system was setting up to wallop the nation later.

A nonprofit that was awarded nearly $7 billion by the Biden administration to finance clean energy and climate-friendly projects has sued the Environmental Protection Agency, accusing it of improperly freezing its account.

A new study finds that climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too.

Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire is erupting, and authorities have evacuated nearly 300 families while warning that another 30,000 people in the area could be at risk.

The Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit from Republican attorneys general in 19 states aimed at blocking climate change suits against the oil and gas industry from Democratic-led states.

A cargo ship carrying a toxic chemical hit a tanker carrying jet fuel for the U.S. military off England, setting both vessels on fire and sending fuel pouring into the North Sea.

U.S. President Donald Trump first suggested buying Greenland in 2019.

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has cautioned that the fallout from a vicious tropical storm over the weekend was “far from over.”.

Facing spiking energy demand, U.S. states are pressing for ways to build new power plants faster as policymakers try to protect residents from higher electric bills and keep their economies on track.

A new law in South Dakota prohibiting the use of eminent domain to acquire land for carbon capture pipelines challenges the viability of a proposed project snaking through five Midwest states.

This year, more than 3,000 volunteers came out across 23 different sites across San Antonio to clear trash out of rivers and waterways.

Brush fires on New York's Long Island fanned by high winds have picked up quickly.

One person has died and several were injured as flooding rains lash the Australian east coast even though it avoided its first tropical cyclone in 51 years.

A winter storm has dumped heavy snow across northern Arizona, playing a major factor in a more than 15-mile backup on a major interstate.

The Justice Department is celebrating its decision to drop a federal lawsuit against a Louisiana petrochemical plant accused of worsening cancer risks for residents in a majority-Black community.

Blue Hole Regional Park will see plenty of green thanks to funding from Hays County to support environmental education and conservation efforts at a future nature center.

The Environmental Protection Agency has issued new guidance directing senior staff to submit spending items greater than $50,000 for approval from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

Beneath Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, one of the planet’s largest potassium reserves is fueling tensions between industrial ambitions and Indigenous rights.

A tropical cyclone has weakened to a tropical low weather system as it approaches the Australian east coast city of Brisbane.

The planned expansion of a massive liquefied natural gas facility in southeast Louisiana is a beacon for U.S. energy policy, according to two members of President Donald Trump's cabinet who spoke to workers there.

The number of monarch butterflies wintering in the mountains west of Mexico City, rebounded this year, doubling the area they covered in 2024 despite the stresses of climate change.

Officials in the Western U.S. who protect the public from avalanches are sounding the alarm about the Trump administration firing hundreds of meteorologists and other scientists.

South Dakota's governor has signed a bill into law that bans the taking of private property for building carbon dioxide pipelines.