President Donald Trump has fired a Democratic commissioner for the federal agency that oversees nuclear safety as he continues to assert more control over independent regulatory agencies.

A hotly debated mining project near the federally protected Okefenokee Swamp has stalled over a $2 million permit requirement needed before Georgia regulators make a final decision.

Two men who were struck by lightning on a Colorado peak were flown to safety in what is believed to be the highest helicopter rescues on record in the mountainous state.

In landlocked Arizona, where the Colorado River crisis has put water use under a microscope, a new inland desert fish farm is growing barramundi — a tropical species native to Australia.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has visited the sites of devastating floods that have left at least 78 people dead in the southeast of the country.

President Donald Trump has ordered government agencies to consolidate their wildland firefighting into a single program.

A California-based company plans to build its first manufacturing plant for a next-generation passenger jet in central North Carolina.

President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to lift restrictions on copper-nickel mining that the Biden administration imposed near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota.

More than 2 million acres of federal lands would be sold to states or other entities under a budget proposal from Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee.

President Donald Trump signed a resolution on Thursday that blocks California’s first-in-the-nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

A team of about 60 researchers are spending six weeks in the Great Plains chasing hail.

A government minister says the death toll in floods in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province has risen to 78.

One of the world's most active volcano is living up to its tagline.

The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas “emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants do not contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a measure Thursday that blocks California’s first-in-the-nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds has rejected a bill that could have introduced more complications for a massive carbon-capture pipeline project routed across several Midwestern states.

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to eliminate rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas.

Officials say at least 49 people have died in flooding in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province.

If you want to make diet choices that help the planet, the most common and effective advice is to eat fewer animals and more plants.

With concern and confusion over how the federal government will respond to disasters this summer, aid groups are readying to expand the ways they help communities after hurricanes, fires and other storms.

Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s administration say he has the authority to abolish national monuments meant to protect historical and archaeological sites.

A New Jersey man is hurt after being gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park.

The health of the Chesapeake Bay has declined in an annual report card on the nation's largest estuary.

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon set for November, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions that undercut its green rhetoric, revealing mounting political pressure on the federal environmental agency and widening divisions within President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s cabinet.

Satellite photos show emperor penguins in one region of Antarctica declined 22% in the past 15 years.

A wave of new ratifications during the U.N. Ocean Conference in France has brought the High Seas Treaty closer to the 60-country threshold needed for it to enter into force.

A U.S. district judge in Arizona has opened the door for the next round of legal wrangling as environmentalists and some Native Americas seek to stop the federal government from transferring land in Arizona for a massive copper mining project.

Tropical Storm Barbara continues to weaken as it heads northwest away from land and is likely to dissipate by Wednesday.

The third U.N. Ocean Conference has opened as pressure mounts for nations to turn decades of promises into real protection for the sea.

Dozens of research and exploration vessels have set sail off the French coastal city of Nice across across the Baie des Anges, or Bay of Angels.

An innovative portable shelter recently exhibited in one of India’s largest cities shows how smart, cheap ways to help workers escape the heat are gaining traction in the country.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says Biden-era fuel economy standards for gas-guzzling cars and trucks were illegal and moved to reverse the rules.

The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency is taking aim at dozens of rules aimed at protecting the environment, including one that requires big polluters to report greenhouse gas emissions.

Colombia’s deforestation dropped 33% in early 2025 compared to last year, with significant reductions in Amazon national parks.

A study published in the academic journal Science has found that cutting off the horns of rhinos in Africa leads to a reduction in poaching of the endangered species.

When Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin proposed rolling back more than two dozen rules aimed at protecting clean air and water, he called it the biggest day for deregulation in American history.

When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would spark a “Golden Age” for the American economy.

When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would spark a “Golden Age” for the American economy.

Many of the victims of the devastating flood that struck central Nigeria on May 29 are Almajiri pupils, the boys sent to learn the Quran and made to live with their teachers under tough conditions.

Roughly 73 square miles of ancestral homelands once belonging to California’s Yurok Tribe have been returned to them.

Plumes of smoke are blanketing large swaths of the U.S. and parts of Europe, presenting risks for those breathing it.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires is beginning to worsen air quality in the eastern U.S. as several Midwestern states battle conditions deemed unhealthy by the federal government.

A team of scientists is driving into severe storms to study hail.

The effort to protect the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade was long supported by financial assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Dallas authorities say one man has died there after his vehicle became stuck in high water during heavy rain.

Four former senior fire service and civil protection officials have been jailed in Greece after being found guilty for failing to mount a proper evacuation during a wildfire that killed more than 100 people outside Athens in 2018.

When the threat of wildfires has forced power to be cut in the tourist town of Calistoga, California, on the edge of Napa Valley, it’s meant firing up a bank of noisy, polluting diesel generators.

A deal to build at least two nuclear reactors in Czechia has been unblocked after an appeals court dismissed a lower court ruling that blocked the government from signing a deal with South Korea’s KHNP power utility.

For countless families in Cuba, the question is no longer if the power will go out, but when.

Top Trump administration officials on Tuesday headlined an energy conference led by the state’s Republican governor.

Peru has acknowledged that miners operating in an area once protected around the famed Nazca Lines can now begin the process of legalizing their activities after the government reduced the buffer zone by 42% last week.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has carried another day of poor air quality south of the border to the American Midwest.

A new report says a plane equipped with advanced sensors for deployment to chemical disasters could have helped authorities avoid needlessly blowing open five rail tank cars and burning their chemicals after the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment.

Colombia’s wind energy plans in La Guajira are faltering as major companies exit and projects remain stalled.

Harrison Ford will receive an award for his philanthropy from the global surgery and training nonprofit Operation Smile.

Mount Etna has again captivated the world with a spectacular show.

A new report says that a record 38 million metric tons of sargassum piled up across the Caribbean and nearby areas in May, with more expected this month.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has a message for environmentalists who despair at the the approach of President Donald Trump’s administration: “Stop whining and get to work.”.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it will hire for “mission-critical field positions” amid expert warnings that the weather service is too short-staffed to warn people of the dangers of the upcoming extreme weather season.

The head of the U.S. Energy Department says President Donald Trump wants to double the amount of oil coursing through Alaska’s 800-mile pipeline system and build a massive natural gas export project as its twin.

Peru’s decision to reduce the boundaries of the Nazca Archaeological Park by 1,000 hectares has sparked concern among conservationists and archaeologists.

In Uganda, where more than 40% of the population live in extreme poverty, many families live in homes with dirt floors.

More than 25,000 residents in three provinces have been evacuated as dozens of wildfires remained active Sunday and diminished air quality in parts of Canada and the U.S. Most of the evacuated residents were from Manitoba, which declared a state of emergency last week.

The Trump administration is sending three Cabinet members to Alaska this week as it pursues oil drilling in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and reinvigorating a natural gas project that’s languished for years.

India, one of the most carbon-polluting countries, has witnessed sharp growth in renewable energies like solar and wind.

About 17,000 residents of Manitoba in central Canada have been evacuated because of nearly two dozen active wildfires.

As hurricane season begins, experts in storms and disasters are worried about massive cuts to the federal system that forecasts, tracks and responds to the storms.

The explosive growth of the data centers needed to power America’s fast-rising demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing has spurred states to dangle incentives in hopes of landing an economic bonanza.

Air quality in some parts of the United States is worsening as smoke from dozens of wildfires in Canada travels south, pushed by winds high in the atmosphere.

The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world.

The Russian captain of a cargo ship that collided with a U.S. tanker in the North Sea has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter.

Scientists say 4 billion people, about half the world’s population, experienced at least one extra month of extreme heat because of human-caused climate change from May 2024 to May 2025.

The Trump administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for 34 offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration.

A Washington state woman is suing seven oil and gas companies, saying they contributed to an extraordinarily hot day that led to her mother’s fatal hyperthermia in one of the nation’s first wrongful-death claims seeking to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for its role in the changing climate.

The Supreme Court has backed a multibillion-dollar oil railroad expansion in Utah in a ruling that scales back a key environmental law and could speed development projects around the country.

Inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog have not seen signs of Russia moving to immediately restart the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

In a pristine corner of the Amazon, Brazilian and British scientists have spent more than two decades simulating drought to understand how the rainforest might respond to a drier future.

A new analysis finds that more than $14 billion in clean energy projects in the U.S. have been canceled this year.

A 64-year-old man remains missing after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before.

Nepal’s mountaineering community has celebrated the 72nd anniversary of the conquest of the world’s highest peak.

Natural gas has become a go-to fuel for power plants from coast to coast, sometimes replacing dirtier coal-fired plants and, by extension, improving air quality.

Outside of Phoenix in suburban Gilbert, one farming family decided over 10 years ago to get ahead of development and urban sprawl by developing their way.

Gen Z tends to lack trust in the major institutions that previous generations expected to safeguard their futures.

A German court ruled has against a Peruvian farmer in a landmark climate lawsuit where he claimed that global warming fueled by energy company RWE’s historical greenhouse gas emissions put his home at risk.

Britain’s biggest water company has been fined almost 123 million pounds or $166 million for releasing sewage into rivers and streams while paying dividends to its shareholders.

Attempts to regulate groundwater in rural Arizona have stalled in the Legislature.

Top weather agencies warn that the world should get ready for several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes the globe to more deadly, fiery and uncomfortable extremes.

In Japan, bobtail cats are considered good luck and Nagasaki is the place to find them.

Kristina Smithe was running a marathon in California a few years ago when she started thinking about all the waste such events produce — especially the blizzard of disposable paper cups that can pile up at water spots.

Hong Kong’s first locally born giant pandas have finally been named and introduced as Jia Jia and De De.

A Texas oil executive from Elon Musk’s government efficiency team has been tasked with overhauling the federal agency that manages vast tracts of public lands.

Some of the most unique living things in the world — plants that supplement the nutrients they get from sunlight by digesting ants, flies and spiders — are only found in a small part of North and South Carolina.

A German court has convicted four former Volkswagen managers of fraud and gave two of them prison sentences for their part in the manipulation of emissions controls.

Two border collies have a full-time job keeping birds and other wildlife off the runway at West Virginia's busiest airport.

A new Alabama study of hurricane-affected homes sends a clear message to insurers and homeowners nationwide: climate-resilient construction methods can protect homes, and save a lot of money.

No place is more vulnerable to hurricanes in the 50 U.S. states than the Florida Keys.

President Donald Trump has signed executive orders to speed up the development of nuclear power and grant the energy secretary authority to approve advanced reactor designs and projects.

Retired firefighter Mark Whaling knows firsthand what it’s like to wait on a helicopter to refill on water while he's battling a blaze on the ground.

An unusual May nor’easter is pulling away from New England after soaking the region and setting some record cold temperatures.

Officials say record floodwaters on Australia’s east coast have left four people dead and one missing as rain eased over the disaster area.