Officials on Maui have been evacuating residents from a wildfire and sounding emergency sirens.

Typhoon Ragasa, one of the strongest in years, was whipping waves taller than lampposts onto Hong Kong promenades and halted life on the southern Chinese coast after leaving destruction in Taiwan and the Philippines.

In his address at the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. President Donald Trump excoriated renewable energy, international climate diplomacy, the science of global warming and other environmental issues.

Myanmar’s Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival is a major Buddhist celebration, but recent challenges have dampened its spirit.

Two former Philippine government engineers have told a televised inquiry that most flood control projects, road and other infrastructures they helped oversee in recent years in a province near the capital were substandard or overpriced to compensate for huge kickbacks given to congressmen and senators.

Hurricane Gabrielle is churning across open Atlantic waters toward the Azore Islands as forecasters warn residents of the archipelago to be on guard for a possible strike later in the week.

The U.N. General Assembly’s yearly meeting of world leaders is here.

Indonesia’s clean energy future is at a crossroads.

Southern Chinese cities have closed schools, businesses and airports as they brace for one of the strongest typhoons in years.

Hundreds of world and business leaders are gathering to keep the fight against climate change alive.

A federal judge has ruled that a nearly complete offshore wind project halted by the Trump administration can resume, dealing President Donald Trump a setback in his ongoing effort to restrict the U.S. offshore wind industry.

The National Hurricane Center advised people in the Azores to monitor the progress of Hurricane Gabrielle which is now a Category 4 hurricane in the central Atlantic Ocean.

Thousands of people have been evacuated from northern Philippine villages and schools and offices were closed in the archipelago and neighboring Taiwan as one of the strongest typhoons this year threatens to cause flooding and landslides on its way to southeastern China.

Conservationists mark world rhino day on Monday while they are still in a constant battle against poaching.

With less than two months until this year's United Nations climate change conference, many prospective attendees are still looking for housing in the small Brazilian host city of Belem.

On the eve of New York Climate Week, activists and members of the public have gathered to protest the financial institutions that are “making our lives more expensive while profiting off the climate crisis, war and genocide,” the organizers say.

The Trump administration has moved to block a Massachusetts offshore wind farm, its latest effort to hobble an industry and technology that President Donald Trump has attacked as “ugly” and unreliable compared to fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill extending the state's cap-and-trade program through 2045.

At an August event, researchers at Michigan State University asked farmers what they think of a new electric tractor.

Hyundai Motor Group confirms it's moving forward with expanding its Georgia plant.

Tax incentives that have saved U.S. residents thousands of dollars on home efficiency upgrades, clean energy installations and electric vehicles are expiring this year.

Australia has set a new target of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by between 62% and 70% below 2005 levels by 2035.

Yellow-crested cockatoos have found a sanctuary in Hong Kong's urban parks, but they face housing troubles similar to their human neighbors.

Playwright David Bar Katz is helping artists facing financial stress through The Relentless Award, the largest annual cash prize in American theater.

The National Academy of Sciences says evidence supporting a 2009 U.S. government finding that climate change threatens public health is “beyond scientific dispute” and that evidence supporting that finding has only grown stronger.

Robert Redford, who died Tuesday at 89, was known for his deep commitment to activism, especially for Native American rights and the environment.

A report by Global Witness reveals that at least 146 land and environmental defenders have been killed or gone missing worldwide in 2024.

Spain says that this summer was the hottest on record for the country.

Scientists in Colombia’s Amazon are capturing and testing endangered pink river dolphins to monitor mercury contamination from illegal gold mining and deforestation.

Rivian Automotive is starting to build a long-delayed electric vehicle plant in Georgia, despite tough challenges in the U.S. market.

Young climate activists and their attorneys who won a landmark global warming trial against the state of Montana are challenging President Donald Trump's energy agenda.

McDonald’s said Monday it plans to invest $200 million over the next seven years to promote regenerative agriculture practices on cattle ranches.

Nearly 200 shipping companies said Monday they want the world’s largest maritime nations to adopt regulations that include the first-ever global fee on greenhouse gases to reduce their sector’s emissions.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians, is making his first visit in four years to the United States.

The soaring price of gold is fueling a mercury boom in central Mexico.

A World Trade Organization agreement aimed at reducing overfishing has taken effect.

Youth in Lahaina, Hawaii, have been struggling since wildfires destroyed their hometown two years ago.

Tornadoes destroyed several homes in southeastern Utah over the weekend, but authorities say there were no reports of people injured.

The California Legislature has voted to extend the state's cap-and-trade program.

President Donald Trump has approved federal disaster aid for six states and tribes following storms and floods this spring and summer.

A European Union court has ruled that nuclear energy and natural gas can be considered environmentally sustainable investments.

A new study finds well-preserved areas of Amazon rainforest occupied and managed by Indigenous peoples show lower incidences of multiple diseases in the regions around them.

A new study has determined that 55 heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wants to cancel a public land management rule that sought to put conservation on equal footing with industry.

Paradise, California, is slowly recovering from the devastating 2018 Camp Fire.

Indonesian rescuers have recovered the bodies of at least 15 people while authorities say 10 people are missing after flash floods struck two provinces of the archipelago nation.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing a dilemma over the immigration detention center built in the Florida Everglades.

Does Florida’s Everglades National Park represent a slight to development in America.

A Georgia judge says he's going to dismiss racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of trying to stop the construction of a police and firefighter training facility known as “Cop City."

An Associated Press analysis reveals that survivors of major natural disasters in the U.S. are waiting longer for federal aid.

Disaster survivors are waiting longer for federal aid.

Tropical Storm Kiko is creating high surf and rip currents for parts of Hawaii, even as it weakens north of the islands.

Researchers say they have confirmed the presence of an invasive species of tick in Maine for the first time, marking the farthest northeast in the U.S. where the pest has been discovered.

New research suggests that a tiny phytoplankton that is an essential part of the marine food web may decline sharply as oceans warm.

Forecasters say the risk of direct impacts from Hurricane Kiko has decreased.

A new study finds that climate change is increasing sugar consumption in the United States.

At the Port of Los Angeles on a site that once housed oil tanks, seven steel structures that look like small blue boats are lowered into the ocean, where they gently bob up and down with the waves to generate power.

Pakistani officials say rescuers backed by troops have evacuated more than 25,000 people from a city in eastern Pakistan as rising rivers threatened to flood the region.

Former U.S. Congressman John Burton has died at age 92.

Forecasters say Hurricane Kiko is weakening as it continues on a track forecast to take the storm north of the Hawaiian islands in coming days.

An expanding iron-ore mine and a deposit of rare-earth minerals are fragmenting the land in northern Sweden and altering ancient reindeer migration routes.

Peru’s Congress has rejected a long-delayed proposal to create the Yavari Mirim Indigenous Reserve.

Scientists conducting a first-of-its-kind drilling operation have extracted samples of fresh water hiding in massive reservoirs deep under the ocean.

Hurricane Kiko has intensified again to a Category 4 hurricane in the Pacific Ocean.

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein is taking a more collaborative approach with Republican opponents in his first eight months in office despite disagreeing with them on many issues.

India’s clean energy appetite is helping the country’s solar power industry wean itself off imported Chinese parts and continue growing even as it faces a tougher sell to its biggest foreign customer, the United States.

Kapalua Golf Resort has been without irrigation water for seven days as it grows worried about keeping the Plantation course in shape for the PGA Tour season opener.

The federal government has filed two lawsuits against Southern California Edison, alleging the utility’s equipment sparked fires in the Los Angeles area that destroyed thousands of structures and killed 17 people.

The world's largest iceberg, A23A, is breaking into smaller pieces and may not last beyond November.

Rhode Island, Connecticut and the developer of an offshore wind farm that would power 350,000 homes in the two states are suing the Trump administration for stopping the nearly completed project.

Lorena has weakened to a tropical storm, but forecasters warn of life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides in parts of Mexico's Baja California peninsula.

Heavy rains have led to some of the worst flooding and landslides in decades in large parts of Northern India.

Officials say rivers are swelling to dangerous levels in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, forcing more than half a million people to flee their homes in the past 24 hours.

The eastern Mediterranean and Middle East are in the grips of one of their worst droughts in decades, which is drying rivers and lakes, shriveling crops and even leading to water cutoffs in major cities.

A new study says climate change has made extreme weather conditions, like those fueling wildfires in the Iberian Peninsula, 40 times more likely.

Marine biologists on Florida's Space Coast have released June Cleaver, a 230-pound loggerhead turtle, back into the ocean.

A new study says the world has far fewer places to securely store carbon dioxide deep underground than previously thought, steeply lowering its potential to help stem global warming.

Search teams have recovered around 100 bodies from a remote village in Sudan's Darfur region after a landslide devastated the area over the weekend.

Officials say nearly 300,000 people have been evacuated in the past 48 hours from flood-hit areas of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, bringing the total number displaced since last month to 1.3 million.

The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Kiko is now a Category 4 storm in the Pacific.

India has warned Pakistan about possible cross-border flooding for the second time in as many weeks as monsoon deluges cause death and widespread destruction in both countries.

Emergency workers in Pakistan's Punjab province have used drones to find people stranded by massive floods.

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has shaken eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border.

Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province is experiencing its worst flood in history, according to a senior official.

Biologists are using drones to scare wolves away from cattle.

Thousands of Americans will head to beaches for one last summer splash this Labor Day weekend, and many of them will arrive at beaches where swimming is not advised because of unsafe levels of fecal contamination.

The Environmental Protection Agency has fired at least eight employees who signed a letter criticizing the agency’s leadership under Administrator Lee Zeldin and President Donald Trump.

A feud over management of one of North America's longest rivers has been simmering in the courts for years.

California energy regulators are postponing implementation of a penalty on oil companies if their profits climb too high.

A lawsuit challenges Hawaii's new tourist tax on cruise ship passengers, claiming it is unconstitutional.

As the National Weather Service scrambles to hire up to 450 people to restore deep cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency, potential applicants are being asked to explain how they would advance President Donald Trump’s agenda if hired.

The Transportation Department has canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects.

Florida boasts at least 1,000 freshwater springs, more than any other U.S. state.

Rescuers in Pakistan have been racing to evacuate tens of thousands of people stranded by floods in Punjab province, as floodwater inundated some villages near Lahore.

Oregon lawmakers gathered in Salem on Friday for a special session focused on transportation funding.

Residents of New Orleans are marking the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's devastating landfall on the Gulf Coast.

Japanese officials have released AI-generated videos simulating a potential eruption of Mount Fuji.

Some people spend their entire lives dreaming of that one special day where they walk down the aisle to be married.

A growing number of cranberry bogs in Massachusetts are being converted back to nature as farmers get out of the business.

Rescuers in Pakistan's Punjab province are racing to reach stranded families after heavy rain and water from overflowing dams in India caused major rivers to burst their banks.