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President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs could cause planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to drop temporarily, but that won’t help the climate long-term.
Colombia’s capital has always seemed immune to water scarcity, nestled among cloud-kissed Andean peaks and known for steady rainfall.
Hundreds of school districts around the U.S. may have to abandon plans to acquire electric buses after the EPA froze the latest round of money that was part of President Biden’s infrastructure law.
Fatou, the oldest gorilla living in captivity worldwide, is getting ready for her 68th birthday in style.
Many of the world’s largest shipping nations have agreed to impose a minimum fee on every ton of greenhouse gases emitted by ships above certain thresholds in what's effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions.
While American consumers and markets wonder and worry about President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs, Gulf coast shrimpers are cheering him on.
U.S. regulators have concluded a monthslong review of their environmental permit for Hyundai's $7.6 billion electric vehicle plant in Georgia, finding that no changes are needed.
Workers have recovered thousands of gallons of crude oil from an underground pipeline spill on North Dakota farmland.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to oversee an agency that manages a quarter-billion acres of public land has withdrawn her nomination.
Outdoor enthusiasts are worried about the loss of their favorite vistas as President Donald Trump's administration considers weakening a 26-year-old rule designed to improve visibility over national parks and wilderness areas.
A new executive order from President Donald Trump that's part of his effort to invigorate energy production launches the possibility that his Department of Justice will go to court against state laws aimed at slashing planet-warming greenhouse gas pollution from fossil fuels.
President Donald Trump has long complained about modern rules that limit water flow for showerheads, making it harder for him to wash his “beautiful hair."
An Alabama teen who narrowly survived a fierce shark attack last year is asking her state's lawmakers to support the creation of a new alert system.
The company behind a massive proposed carbon pipeline in the Midwestern U.S. filed hundreds of lawsuits against landowners in recent years.
The company behind a massive proposed carbon pipeline in the Midwestern U.S. filed hundreds of lawsuits against landowners in recent years.
Lego has opened a $1 billion factory in Vietnam that it says will make toys without adding planet-warming gas to the atmosphere by relying entirely on clean energy.
With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday in Brazil’s capital, demanding the state guarantee and expand their rights to traditional lands as part of the solution to the world’s climate crisis.
A waiver issued by the Department of Homeland Security allows the federal government to bypass environmental regulations and begin construction immediately on stretches of the border wall in Southern California.
President Donald Trump has signed four executive orders aimed at boosting coal, a reliable but polluting energy source that’s long been in decline.
After days of deluges overfilled rivers to near-record levels across Kentucky, residents are anxious to return to their flooded homes and assess what is salvageable.
The National Weather Service is no longer providing translations of its products after its contract with an artificial intelligence company was allowed to lapse.
Global chemical manufacturer Bayer wants the U.S. Supreme Court to halt thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn a popular weedkiller could case cancer.
The historic Buffalo Trace Distillery has temporarily closed after deadly flooding ravaging Kentucky swept into its facilities, forcing the popular bourbon company to turn away the public and staff.
Rivers rose and flooding worsened across the U.S. South and Midwest, threatening communities already waterlogged and badly damaged by days of heavy rain and storms that killed at least 23 people.
The role of dogs in Italian alpine rescues is becoming more important as the number of people caught by avalanches increases — up by 50% over the last 25 years.
Rivers rose and flooding worsened across the U.S. South and Midwest, threatening communities already waterlogged and badly damaged by days of heavy rain and wind that killed at least 18 people.
Nations are trying to reach an agreement to charge commercial vessels a fee for their emissions in what would effectively be the world’s first global carbon tax.
Another round of torrential rain and flash flooding has come for parts of the South and Midwest already heavily waterlogged by days of severe storms that also spawned some deadly tornadoes.
The federal government wants the number of offices that oversee U.S. mine safety laws to align more with a shrinking coal industry.
Stanley “Goose” Stewart, who survived the Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster that killed 29 workers 15 years ago Saturday, calls a recommendation by the Trump administration to close three dozen offices of the Mine Safety and Health Administration across the country “idiotic.”.
Rara Sekar, an Indonesian singer, draws inspiration from nature as she encourages people to return to simple living as a way to combat climate change.
The Trump administration is ending a key program used by communities to pay for projects designed to help them prepare for natural disasters like flooding and fires.
Industry groups representing hundreds of chemical and petrochemical manufacturers are seeking blanket exemptions from federal requirements to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals such as mercury, arsenic and benzene.
President Donald Trump's administration has rolled back environmental protections around future logging projects on more than half of U.S. national forests under an emergency designation issued Friday that cites the dangers of wildfires.
A Southeast Louisiana jury ruled oil company Chevron must pay more than $740 million dollars to restore damage it caused to coastal wetlands following a landmark trial more than a decade in the making.
Data obtained by The Associated Press shows that close to half of the local National Weather Service forecast offices have 20% vacancy rates as severe weather chugs across the nation’s heartland.
An average of 1,200 tornadoes hit yearly, and the United States will probably get more killer supercells spawning tornadoes and hail as the world warms.
Extreme weather is dangerous weather, and that’s particularly true for the heavy rainfall events that experts say are becoming more frequent with climate change.
Violent storms and tornadoes have torn through cities from Oklahoma to Indiana during what could be a record period of deadly weather and flooding.
Commissioners in a rural New Mexico county say pets are being snatched from front yards and livestock are being killed by Mexican gray wolves, prompting them declare a state of emergency.
North Carolina enacted a rare energy law in the South in 2021 that directed power plant emissions be sharply reduced.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Wednesday questioned a Department of Justice attorney over whether the Environmental Protection Agency violated the law when it terminated $20 billion in green bank grants allegedly without following the proper process.
Weather forecasters are using a relatively rare “high-risk” designation to warn that a major tornado outbreak appears likely Wednesday.
What was once Pennsylvania’s biggest coal-fired power plant is being turned into a $10 billion natural gas-powered data center campus designed to capitalize on Big Tech's fast-growing energy demands.
Tornadoes and violent storms have struck parts of the South and Midwest, killing at least one person, knocking down power lines and trees, ripping roofs off of homes and shooting debris thousands of feet into the air.
A Hawaii boat captain who rebuilt her whale-watching tour business after losing three boats in the deadly 2023 Lahaina wildfire captured iPhone footage her of golden retriever barking excitedly when a humpback swam near them over the weekend.
A Jesuit priest says he will rather go to prison than pay a fine of 500 euros or $541 for participating in a climate activists’ street blockade in the southern German city of Nuremberg.
The Tennessee Valley Authority has promoted one of its top executives to CEO as President Donald Trump has begun turning his attention back to the nation's largest public utility.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin says he is closing a one-room museum at the agency’s Washington headquarters, saving taxpayers $600,000 a year in operating costs.
Dow, a major producer of chemicals and plastics, wants to use next-generation nuclear reactors for clean power and steam at a Texas manufacturing complex instead of natural gas.
Scientists who want to learn more about a tiny, newly discovered flower in West Texas are hoping it will bloom again in a couple of weeks after rain finally fell in the area.
A federal judge in Florida has blocked the imports of a high-priced Chilean sea bass from protected waters near Antarctica.
Firefighters stopped the forward spread of a wildfire tearing through a remote area of eastern California but evacuation orders for hundreds of homes remained in place.
Public funding for agricultural research in the U.S. has been declining for the last two decades, a process Trump has rapidly accelerated by freezing or pausing support for a variety of research programs financed by the USDA, EPA and other organizations.
Authorities in Michigan say three family members died after a tree struck their vehicle as powerful storms swept across the region.
The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar has been plagued by wars and natural disasters since it became independent from Britain in 1948, when it was still called Burma.
U.S. states are positioning themselves to compete for newer, cheaper nuclear reactors being developed as communities and tech giants compete in a race for electricity.
An abrupt announcement has rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected deep international waters for more than 30 years.
A cargo ship which collided with a U.S. tanker in the North Sea earlier this month has been towed to the Scottish port of Aberdeen.
Demand for the patchouli plant’s oils has skyrocketed in recent years, and so too has the number of farmers in the region who now grow and process it.
A federal judge’s finding that extreme heat in Texas prisons is unconstitutional could lead to the state being ordered to spend billions to install air conditioning to cool them off.
At least a half-dozen large wildfires continue to burn in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina and North Carolina.
As part of a push to roll back dozens of environmental regulations, the Trump administration is offering coal-fired power plants and other industrial polluters a chance to receive exemptions from rules requiring them to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals, including mercury, arsenic and benzene.
Nineteen sea turtles that rehabbed in Missouri after suffering the effects of cold water temperatures in New England are now back in the Atlantic Ocean off of Jacksonville, Florida.
New research finds that global warming has significantly reduced the amount of water that’s being stored around the world in soil, lakes, rivers, snow and other places on land.
President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on autos not made in the U.S. and certain auto parts will send ripple effects through an industry that is already being pummeled by steel and aluminum import duties and on-again, off-again 25% levies on Canada and Mexico.
Copper prices have hit record highs as an ongoing trade war between the U.S. and its key trading partners threatens to squeeze supplies of the vital metal.
Firefighters have announced progress on containing two of the largest wildfires burning in the North Carolina mountains, but are warning that fire danger remains from dry and windy conditions.
Cyprus says it will make money available to subsidize construction of private desalination plants at hotels on the tourism-reliant island nation as dwindling fresh water reserves in 108 dams are reaching alarmingly low levels.
An international agency reports that the installation of renewable energy worldwide hit a record high last year, with 92.5% of all new electricity brought online coming from the sun, wind or other clean sources.
Senate Democrats accuse the Environmental Protection Agency of breaking the law when they cancelled grants worth more than $1.5 billion focused on improving the environment in minority communities hit hard by pollution.
A pilot and his two young daughters have survived on the wing of a plane for about 12 hours after it crashed and was partially submerged in an icy Alaska lake.
Dry conditions, wind and trees downed by Hurricane Helene are fueling wildfires in North and South Carolina.
Since the 2023 Maui fires that destroyed Lahaina, communities across Hawaii have sought ways to protect themselves from more destructive fires wrought by decades of climate change, urban development, and detrimental land use policies.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a petition filed by young climate activists who argued that the federal government's role in climate change violated their constitutional rights.
Yellowstone National Park has a new thermal vent spewing steam in the air that could be visible to tourists once visitors flock back into the park.
Firefighters in North and South Carolina are battling multiple wind-driven wildfires.
