As Hurricane Erin pelted North Carolina’s barrier islands with strong winds and waves, it destroyed many nests of threatened sea turtles.

A federal judge has halted further expansion of the immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Florida Everglades.

As AI becomes a part of everyday life, its massive energy and water needs are coming more into focus.

Millions of Americans are facing record heat with temperatures frequently over 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

Berlin’s newest panda twins have celebrated their first birthday with frozen vegetable treats and a candle made out of bamboo shoots.

Strong winds and waves from Hurricane Erin have battered Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard as dangerous rip currents continue to threaten from the Carolinas to New England.

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction halting further expansion of an immigration detention center built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” as it winds down its operations in 60 days to comply with environmental laws.

President Donald Trump is blaming renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power for skyrocketing energy costs.

Timucuan Parks Foundation and JaxParks are asking volunteers to join them at Kathryn Abbey Hanna Park to clean up after the busy Labor Day weekend.

A Wyoming grand jury has indicted a man on an animal cruelty charge after he allegedly hit a wolf with a snowmobile, taped its mouth shut and brought it into a bar before killing it.

Students and teachers often suffer heat-related illnesses at schools in Puerto Rico, one of many places where extreme heat is disrupting children’s education more frequently.

Giraffes are now classified into four distinct species in Africa.

Hurricane Erin is starting to churn up big waves along the northeast coast after pelting North Carolina’s Outer Banks with strong winds and swells that flooded a few places on the barrier islands.

Officials have lowered the alert level for a volcano near Alaska’s largest city to normal.

Chinese officials have showcased what they claim will be the world's largest solar farm on the Tibetan plateau.

Two homes on North Carolina's Outer Banks sit precariously in high waves generated by Hurricane Erin with their days seemingly numbered.

Bolivia heads into an Oct. 19 runoff between centrist Rodrigo Paz Pereira and right-wing ex-president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga after nearly 20 years of socialist rule.

The Philadelphia Zoo is showing off 16 critically endangered western Santa Cruz tortoise hatchlings.

There's clearly an appetite for shopping sustainably online.

Immigrants face increased risks this hurricane season due to aggressive immigration enforcement.

Hurricane Erin is strengthening again and forecasters say it could intensify again to be a major hurricane.

It's the time of year for Cape Verde hurricanes.

A dangerous heat wave has descended on much of California and the U.S. Southwest, with triple-digit temperatures expected along with a higher risk of wildfires.

A Yosemite National Park ranger was fired after hanging a pride flag from El Capitan, and some visitors to the California park face potential prosecution for participating in a demonstration.

A U.S. appeals court has put the brakes on the transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a company that plans to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America.

Hurricane Erin is churning slowly toward the eastern U.S. coast and stirring up waves that already have forced dozens of beach rescues.

Italy’s Ventina glacier in northern Lombardy has melted so much due to climate change that geologists can no longer measure it the way they have for the past 130 years.

Switching to a heat pump is often touted as a climate-friendly choice that can help your wallet, too.

Anguished Pakistanis are searching remote areas for bodies swept away by weekend flash floods as the death toll has reached 277.

Hurricane Erin is forcing evacuations on North Carolina’s Outer Banks as it churns in the Atlantic where high winds and heavy rain are pelting the Turks and Caicos Islands and parts of the Bahamas.

Cloudbursts are causing chaos in mountainous parts of India and Pakistan, with tremendous amounts of rain falling in a short period of time over a concentrated area.

Spain is deploying 500 more soldiers to help battle wildfires that have ravaged parched woodlands during a prolonged heat wave, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said.

Coastal communities nationwide are ramping up efforts to restore and protect their shorelines as climate change causes more intense and destructive storms and leads to sea-level rise that puts tens of millions of people at risk.

The explosion this week at U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh-area plant has reignited debate about its future.

The U.S. Postal Service is facing congressional attempts to strip billions in federal EV funding.

Hurricane Erin has been downgraded to a Category 3 hurricane but is gaining in size and raising the risk of life-threatening surf later this week along the U.S. Eastern seaboard.

Officials say rescuers have recovered dozens more bodies from the rubble of collapsed homes in a northwestern district of Pakistan, bringing the death toll to at least 274, as authorities defended their response to the flooding and said they did not need any foreign help at this point.

It has been 150 years since miners first flocked to South Dakota's Black Hills in a gold rush that displaced Native Americans.

In California’s Death Valley National Park, one of the hottest places on Earth, summer temperatures can soar into the 130s F.

Forecasters say Erin has exploded into a major hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean just north of the Caribbean.

Global talks to slash plastic production and the toxic chemicals used to produce plastic products fell apart in Geneva this week.

A deer hunter has discovered a rare subtropical wood stork in the wilds of Wisconsin.

Small-scale solar panels about the size of a door are poised to be plugged into more U.S. homes and apartments as homeowners and renters who want to harness the sun’s energy look for cheaper alternatives to rooftop installations.

Firefighters in Spain, Portugal and Greece are battling ongoing wildfires as hot, dry conditions persist.

Hurricane Erin has strengthened into a Category 2 storm as it approaches Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, bringing heavy rains that could cause flooding and landslides.

Officials say flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed over 280 people in India and Pakistan and left scores of others missing.

Officials in Pakistan say flash floods triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 49 people in the northwest and elsewhere in the country over the past 24 hours.

Paleontologists have identified a new whale species from a 25-million-year-old fossil found on an Australian beach.

Talks on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution in Geneva ended without an agreement Friday.

The glacial flooding that sent residents of Alaska’s capital city scrambling this week has become an annual ordeal for those who live along the picturesque river that winds from the nearby Mendenhall Glacier.

Allegheny County is increasing air quality monitoring after an explosion at a U.S. Steel plant south of Pittsburgh killed two people and injured more than 10 others.

Well-known Wyoming trial lawyer Gerry Spence has died at age 96.

Florida wildlife officials have given preliminary approval to a plan to reopen Apalachicola Bay for oyster harvesting, five years after the waters were closed due to dwindling shellfish populations.

Republican lawmakers are blaming Canada for not preventing and containing wildfires, whose smoke has fouled the air in several states this year.

Negotiations on a global treaty to end plastic pollution will draw to a close Friday.

Fire crews in Greece, Spain, and Portugal are racing to contain wildfires.

Flash floods caused by torrential rains in Indian-controlled Kashmir have left at least 56 people.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission approved rules for the state’s first bear hunt in more than a decade. The hunt will take place in four regions of the state and use a lottery process for hunters to obtain permits.

A new study warns that rising sea levels could threaten Easter Island’s iconic moai statues by the end of the century.

Ashton Dolce joined the Youth Preparedness Council at the nation's disaster relief agency to advocate for issues such as protection from extreme heat.

Negotiators working on a treaty to address global plastic pollution are discussing a new draft of the text that wouldn't limit plastic production or address chemicals used in plastic products.

It turns out many Americans misjudge which personal behaviors contribute most to climate change.

Nations are crafting the first global, legally binding treaty on plastics pollution.

Officials say new sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Juneau, Alaska’s capital, have held back record levels of flooding and prevented widespread damage after an ice dam at the nearby Mendenhall Glacier released a massive amount of rainwater and snowmelt downstream.

Vietnam is launching its biggest economic overhaul in a generation, aiming to become Asia’s next “tiger economy.”.

The fate of a makeshift immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” hangs in the balance, as a federal judge considers whether building on sensitive wetlands violated environmental laws.

Typhoon Podul has crossed southeastern Taiwan, where schools and government offices were closed to wait out the storm.

Reports of a large great white shark near popular beaches in Maine have prompted a warning to beachgoers.

Residents in some parts of Juneau evacuated ahead of what could be a record surge of floodwater after a huge upstream basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier started to escape.

The Indigenous Guard of the Nasa people formed in Colombia in 2001 to protect Indigenous territories from armed groups and from environmental destruction such as deforestation and illegal mining.

The Indigenous Guard of the Nasa people formed in Colombia in 2001 to protect Indigenous territories from armed groups and from environmental destruction such as deforestation and illegal mining.

Wildfires are burning in parts of Europe as millions of people across the continent struggled to adapt to the new reality: record summer heat.

Environmentalists and Indigenous leaders held signs in front of the United Nations buildings in Geneva where talks for a global accord to end plastic pollution are taking place.

Scientists from a university are filtering Mexico City's waters for traces of the DNA of an endangered salamander, the axolotl.

Reusable menstrual products, including cups, discs and period underwear, have gained traction as a cost-effective, long-lasting, environmental alternative to single-use products.

As nations began a second week of negotiations Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution, an artist heaped piles of plastic waste onto a large sculpture in front of the United Nations office.

A heat wave has gripped parts of Europe, with temperatures reaching 43 degrees Celsius in southern France.

A massive mudslide has killed seven volunteers in northern Pakistan as they repaired a drainage channel damaged by flash floods.

Tropical Storm Henriette has rapidly strengthened into a hurricane in the central Pacific Ocean with further strengthening expected but poses no threat to land.

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck Turkey’s northwestern province of Balikesir, killing at least one person and causing about a dozen buildings to collapse.

More than 70 million Americans have experienced the muggiest start to summer on record, with climate change increasing humidity in the Eastern U.S. An Associated Press analysis shows that parts of 20 states and Washington, D.

Commercial fishing that recently resumed in a vast protected area of the Pacific Ocean must halt once again after a judge in Hawaii sided with environmentalists challenging a Trump administration rollback of federal ocean protections.

Thousands of people have marched in Messina, Sicily, to protest a government plan to build a bridge connecting the Italian mainland with Sicily.

About 1,400 firefighters have been deployed in France's southern Aude region to prevent the country's largest wildfire in decades from reigniting.

Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, the United States has withdrawn from international negotiations and commitments, particularly around climate.

Chinese state media reports flash floods have left at least 10 people dead and 33 missing in Yuzhong County in China’s northwestern Gansu province.

A federal judge has ordered a two-week halt to construction at an immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” as she considers whether it violates environmental laws.

New research reveals that an inconic Argentine glacier is undergoing its most significant retreat in a century.

The European Union agency that tracks global warming says last month was the third-warmest July on record, with temperatures easing slightly for the month as compared with the record high two years ago.

When Alaska Natives debate proposals to drill and mine the landscape of the nation’s largest state, it involves more than an environmental or economic question.

Nélida Pérez feeds street cats in Old Havana, but Cuba's worsening economic crisis is making it increasingly difficult.

Australian authorities say the Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral in four decades.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will hire as many as 450 people to shore up the National Weather Service after deep cuts this spring raised concern about dangerous understaffing.

The Trump administration wants to end two NASA missions that monitor a potent greenhouse gas and plant health.

A new study shows that heavy rainfall that caused floods that killed hundreds in Pakistan in recent weeks was worsened by human-caused climate change The study by World Weather Attribution was released on Thursday.

Forecasters say Tropical Storm Ivo has formed off the coast of southern Mexico in the eastern Pacific Ocean and could bring rain and rough surf to some areas.

Rising temperatures pose new challenges for firefighters who have made incremental progress against a massive wildfire in central California that has injured four people as it has become the biggest blaze in the state so far this year.

Three new studies highlight the severe health impacts of recent wildfires on Maui and in Los Angeles.

Four Barbary lion cubs have been born in a Czech zoo.

More beachgoers have been getting an unexpected shock this summer as jellyfish numbers bloom along the Delaware coast.