North Florida’s Apalachicola Bay will soon reopen for wild oyster harvesting.

In the New Jersey township of Montclair, a group bicycle ride to school has become a weekly community ritual.

Ten years after Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, the Indigenous Krenak people are still mourning what they call “the death of the river.”.

The European Union has announced plans to slash carbon emissions by 90% by 2040.

In the leadup to the annual United Nations climate conference, the U.N. Development Programme has released new data about how climate change is going to affect agriculture, extreme weather and other factors that often mean life or death for people in poverty.

Vietnam is rethinking how it copes with floods after a year of relentless storms has collapsed hillsides and turned streets into rivers.

Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 85 people dead and 75 missing in the central Philippines.

Brazil’s leader, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says he wants the future of the Amazon rainforest to be built around a major fund that will pay countries to keep their forests standing.

Haiti’s government says that the death toll from Hurricane Melissa has risen to 43 and that 13 others are still missing.

A new United Nations report finds that global climate plans have barely impacted future warming.

World leaders and diplomats have gathered for 30 years to tackle climate change, but progress has been slow.

The European Union is working to establish new climate goals before the U.N. climate talks in Brazil starts next week.

Philippine disaster response officials say that Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 26 people dead.

Three hundred mayors have gathered in Rio de Janeiro to pledge coordinated climate action in their cities.

An endangered loggerhead sea turtle has been released into the Atlantic Ocean from a Florida beach nearly three months after being hit by a boat.

Lambert, a critically endangered African penguin, has moved to a special geriatric island at the New England Aquarium in Boston.

A fast-moving typhoon was raking across the central Philippines after slamming ashore overnight from the Pacific, leaving at least one person dead, causing flooding and power outages and displacing tens of thousands of people.

Abu Dhabi has opened a major oil summit with optimism about rising energy prices.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has visited Vietnam to reaffirm a partnership focused on addressing the legacies of the Vietnam War.

Hurricane Melissa has devastated Jamaica, causing severe damage to fishing and farming communities.

Prince William, the heir to the British throne, will be on the streets of Rio de Janeiro this week to promote his Earthshot Prize, an initiative to find solutions to major environmental issues.

Rescuers and aid workers have spread across Jamaica to deliver food and water after Hurricane Melissa ravaged the island.

A large-scale carbon capture pipeline began operating in the Midwest in September, succeeding where others have so far fallen short.

President Donald Trump’s efforts to help the U.S. coal industry at home are being offset by falling sales abroad.

A bird sighting on New York's Long Island has avian enthusiasts flocking to the region in the hopes of spotting a feathered friend who has never been seen before in the state.

Black vultures have killed and eaten several calves on Tom Karr’s cattle ranch in southeastern Ohio, a loss he says didn't happen two decades ago.

A new poll finds that many Americans remain hesitant to buy electric vehicles.

South Florida was spared a direct blow from Hurricane Melissa, but the massive storm still hit home for the millions of residents there who have deep roots in the Caribbean.

The Swiss village of Blatten might have been left for dead after a devastating landslide five months ago.

Lucia Ortiz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico.

Communities across the northern Caribbean are dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.

A Yup'ik community near the Bering Sea in southwest Alaska was spared the widespread devastation other communities experienced from the remnants of Typhoon Halong earlier this month.

A North Dakota judge has ordered Greenpeace to pay damages of $345 million, reducing an earlier jury award after it found the environmental group and others liable for defamation and other claims brought by a pipeline company in connections with protests of an oil pipeline nearly a decade ago.

Producing and manufacturing electric vehicles and their batteries uses a lot of energy, leading many to be skeptical about the environmental benefits of going electric.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Melissa has begun affecting the southeastern Bahamas.

Climate change is affecting winter sports worldwide, with shorter winters and less snow.

Hurricane Melissa has left widespread destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica.

Cyclone Montha is weakening after battering India’s eastern cost with torrential rains and gusty winds as relief teams raced to restore power and clear debris across southern Andhra Pradesh and neighboring Odisha state.

Environmentalists fear carbon tax concessions to global oil giants may undermine efforts to shift to cleaner energy.

Relief organizations are mobilizing to help across the Caribbean after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm, tying for the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane in history.

Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica with record-tying 185 mph winds, and its strength defied typical weakening factors.

MacKenzie Scott has donated $60 million to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy.

An autumn heat wave accompanied by gusty winds raised the wildfire risk for Southern California, with forecasters warning that grass and brush are still dangerously dry despite recent rains.

In a spot outside Berlin that’s usually a paradise for birdwatchers, volunteers have recovered nearly 2,000 dead cranes in recent days as bird flu has hit the migrating birds hard.

In a story published Oct. 28, 2025, about climate anxiety leading people to decide against having children, The Associated Press misspelled the name of a subject interviewed.

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall on Jamaica as the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean island in the 174 years since records began.

Heavy rains have caused major flooding in central Vietnam, submerging homes, farmland, and tourist spots like Hue and Hoi An.

Indian authorities have conducted a cloud-seeding experiment over New Delhi to induce rainfall and clear the city’s toxic air.

India's weather office says Cyclone Montha has started making landfall along the country's eastern coast.

Hurricane Melissa has hit southwestern Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, causing heavy flooding and wind damage.

Bill Gates thinks climate change is a serious problem but he thinks scientific innovation will curb it.

The National Hurricane Center warns that Hurricane Melissa poses a threat of catastrophic flash flooding and landslides in Jamaica, Cuba and Hispaniola.

Hurricane Melissa has rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm due to warming oceans linked to climate change.

Hurricane Melissa has intensified into a Category 5 storm as it draws closer to Jamaica, where forecasters say it will unleash catastrophic flooding, landslides and widespread damage.

Hurricane Melissa is sustaining Category 4 strength and may get stronger while threatening to cause catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean, including Haiti and Jamaica.

China's endangered golden snub-nosed monkeys have joined pandas as diplomatic envoys to Europe.

It’s getting more expensive for Americans to get their caffeine fix.

In some of the most agriculturally rich regions in the U.S., researchers from San Diego State University are working to understand how climate change is impacting heat in rural areas and the farmworkers who toil in them.

A 29-year-old man accused of sparking the deadly Palisades Fire, one of the most destructive wildfires in California history, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges.

Tropical Storm Melissa is nearly stationary in the central Caribbean, with forecasters warning it could soon strengthen and brush past Jamaica as a powerful hurricane.

Doris Brown’s home in Northeast Houston becomes a refuge for neighbors during power outages thanks to her solar panel and battery system.

The Trump administration has finalized a plan to open the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, renewing long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one of the nation’s most sensitive wilderness areas.

New research suggests that dinosaur populations were thriving in North America before the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that caused mass extinction.

A new poll finds that as the United States rapidly builds massive data centers for the development of artificial intelligence, many Americans are concerned about the environmental impact.

Tropical Storm Melissa is lumbering through the Caribbean Sea and bringing a risk of dangerous landslides and life-threatening flooding to Jamaica and the southern part of the island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

The Agriculture Department will reopen about 2,100 county offices all across the country Thursday despite the ongoing government shutdown to help farmers and ranchers get access to $3 billion of aid from existing programs.

A report by an environmental group says millions of tons of discarded U.S. electronics are being shipped overseas each month.

Artificial intelligence has caused concern for its tremendous consumption of water and power.

Tropical Storm Melissa has dumped heavy rain on parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Officials have identified more than 1,000 available hotel rooms plus additional rental options in Alaska’s largest city for people displaced to Anchorage after the remnants of a typhoon ravaged their villages.

Tropical Storm Melissa has begun dumping rain on Hispaniola as forecasters warned of a flood risk in parts of the Caribbean region this week.

Wasted food is a financial and environmental bummer.

Scientists have reported an encouraging trend in the population growth of the North Atlantic right whale.

Thick smog is blanketing New Delhi after Diwali celebrations with fireworks sent air pollution levels soaring.

A man was struck and killed by a tree branch in Wellington, New Zealand, as dangerous winds and heavy rain buffeted parts of the country.

Furloughs have begun at the federal agency tasked with overseeing the U.S. nuclear stockpile.

State emergency management officials say they're facing funding challenges from the federal government that threaten the country's ability to respond to crises.

A large mushroom farm near Nairobi is producing mycelium for building materials that end up as fungi-based panels, which are more sustainable and affordable than traditional bricks.

Torrential rains in east-central Mexico last week have left at least 76 dead and raised concerns about the government's ability to alert people to severe weather.

A nonprofit in rural Alaska is working to rescue dogs from Kipnuk, a village hit hard by Typhoon Halong.

Current and former FEMA staff have gathered for a “FEMA Solidarity Rally” outside the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

The U.S. has blocked a global fee on shipping emissions as an international maritime meeting ended Friday without adopting new regulations.

A Louisiana judge has tossed out a key permit for a liquefied natural gas facility that won approval from President Donald Trump’s administration.

The attorneys general of more than a dozen states on Thursday sued the Trump administration over the termination of $7 billion in funding intended for affordable solar energy projects across the U.S. The coalition argued in the lawsuit that the Environmental Protection Agency’s cancellation of the Solar for All program violated federal law governing federal agencies and constitutional doctrine on separation of powers.

A suspect in the deadly Palisades Fire in Los Angeles was ordered to be moved to California from Florida.

The Department of Energy says it has finalized a $1.6 billion loan guarantee to a subsidiary of one of the nation’s largest power companies to upgrade nearly 5,000 miles of transmission lines across five states, mostly in the Midwest, for largely fossil fuel-run energy.

More evacuees from coastal Alaska villages inundated by high surf last weekend are arriving in Anchorage.

Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the first Mount Everest expedition team, has died at 92.

The stench of decay has spread around Poza Rica, one of the areas hardest hit by last week’s torrential rains that flooded central and eastern Mexico.

A firefighter has rescued a stranded pup from rising floodwaters in Southern California.

The last few days have been gorgeous with morning temperatures in the 50s and 60s and highs in the 80s! As we look ahead to the next few weeks and even months, what can we expect?

Scientists from the University of Washington recently deployed a little over 1 mile of fiber-optic cable in the Salish Sea to test whether internet cables can monitor endangered orcas.

The United Nations weather agency said carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere reached record highs last year, intensifying climate change and extreme weather.

Officials say one of the “most significant” airlifts in Alaska history is underway to evacuate hundreds of people from storm-devastated coastal towns.

One of California’s worst oil spills occurred off the Santa Barbara coast in 2015, when a corroded pipeline burst.

Officials in Alaska are rushing to find housing for people from tiny coastal villages devastated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong.

Florida officials have been accused of failing to disclose their application for federal reimbursement for an immigration detention center in the Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz."

Florida officials have been accused of failing to disclose their application for federal reimbursement for an immigration detention center in the Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz."

A river in eastern Mexico turned into a crushing wall of water, nearly wiping out the village of Chapula.

Federal officials have rejected a company’s bid to acquire 167 million tons of coal on public lands in Montana for less than a penny per ton.