Mining industry access to federally owned coal in northeastern Wyoming will continue under a bill headed to President Donald Trump.

Researchers have completed a full accounting of water uses and losses in the Rio Grande-Bravo basin as it faces severe shortages throughout its range in the United States and Mexico.

The Trump administration is proposing new oil drilling off the California and Florida coasts for the first time in decades, as President Donald Trump seeks to expand U.S. oil production that is already leading the world.

A federal appeals court says the government can continue requiring America’s lobster fishing boats to use electronic tracking devices that report data back to authorities.

Fire has disrupted United Nations climate talks, forcing evacuations of several buildings with just two scheduled days left and negotiators yet to announce any major agreements.

K-pop is turning up in force at the United Nations climate talks in Brazil, with fans-turned-activists hosting protest and events to mobilize their millions-strong online community to back concrete climate actions.

A new study finds that thousands of hazardous sites across the U.S. are at risk of flooding due to sea level rise that could pose public health threats to neighboring communities.

Natalie Paine, a French horn player in New Zealand’s navy, has been stationed in Antarctica on a military posting since October.

Dozens of local parks dot the Golden Isles, offering everything from gorgeous views and amphitheaters to mini golf and salutes to service. On our 4 Your Neighborhood trip to Southeast Georgia, we’re highlighting a few of these hidden gems.

President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to roll back protections for imperiled species and the places they live.

The president of Cyprus says some of the estimated 20 trillion cubic feet of natural gas discovered in waters off the island nation could reach European markets as soon as 2027.

The return of Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to UN climate talks was hoped to spur nations to meet a self-imposed early deadline for progress on tough issues.

A Belgian farmer is taking TotalEnergies to court, arguing the company should pay for climate change damage.

A massive illegal trash dump near Oxford has sparked outrage in England.

China is rapidly replacing its aging diesel trucks with electric models, signaling a major shift in the world’s largest vehicle market.

A federal appeals court has paused a California law that requires companies that do business in the state and make more than $500 million a year to report how climate change could hurt them financially.

Brazilian authorities have raged against comments by Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz in which he appeared to look down on Belem, a city on the edge of the Amazon rainforest.

A historic ocean liner will become the world’s largest artificial reef after it’s sunk off Florida’s Gulf Coast early next year.

Artificial intelligence is being cast as both a hero and a villain at the U.N. climate talks in Brazil.

Mimmo, a bottlenose dolphin, has been delighting tourists in Venice with his acrobatic flips for months.

United Nations climate talks are bubbling to a critical point, with host Brazil pressing negotiators to make progress on key issues.

Pope Leo XIV is urging countries at United Nations climate talks to take “concrete actions” to stop climate change that is threatening the planet.

The Environmental Protection Agency says it is redefining the scope of the nation’s bedrock clean water law to limit the amount of wetlands it covers.

Rescue workers are digging through tons of mud and rubble as they searched for 34 missing people after two separate landslides in two different regions on Indonesia’s main island of Java that killed at least 18 people.

Jamaica has joined other small island nations at the United Nations climate talks to urge immediate action on climate change.

Heavy rain has swept central Vietnam, triggering landslides and floods, killing at least seven people, injuring dozens, and stranding thousands.

A powerful atmospheric river had mostly moved through California after causing at least six deaths and dousing much of the state, but lingering thunderstorms brought the risk of mudslides in areas of Los Angeles County that were recently ravaged by wildfire.

By the end of next year, the state of Para is requiring all cattle to be tagged to trace where they came from in order to be sold legally.

At the halfway point of annual United Nations climate negotiations in Brazil, it appears the talks may do more than just focus on implementing past promises, as some observers had expected.

The Czech Republic plans to build two new reactors at its Dukovany plant to expand the country's nuclear energy capacity.

An unusually strong storm system called an atmospheric river was dousing Southern California on Saturday, prompting flood warnings in areas of coastal Los Angeles County that recently were ravaged by wildfires.

Thousands of demonstrators marched in Belem, Brazil, at the halfway point of United Nations climate talks to demand progress from negotiators on the problem of climate change — among other causes.

Climate choices aren’t just individual actions.

Protesters in Pokemon costumes stomped around the United Nations climate conference Friday to send Japan a message: end financing of coal and natural gas projects across Southeast Asia and elsewhere.

In a story published Nov. 14, 2025, about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce asking the Supreme Court to pause new California laws expected to require thousands of companies to report emissions and climate-risk information, The Associated Press erroneously reported that one of the laws requires companies that make more than $500,000 a year to biennially disclose how climate change could hurt them financially.

The Marine Mammal Center has rescued a sea otter pup in Morro Bay, California, after it was separated from its mother.

Brazil is hosting the United Nations climate talks with a focus on Indigenous peoples and the Amazon rainforest.

A London judge has ruled that BHP Group is liable for Brazil’s worst environmental disaster.

The first major blast of wintry weather in the U.S. this week brought snow, frigid temperatures and in some places something a little more magical: Frost flowers.

A wildlife photographer captured a dramatic encounter on video between a harbor seal and a pod of killer whales.

Wildlife officials say a small alligator spotted along the Charles River in Boston this week has been rescued and delivered to safety.

Quantavia Smith, who was often homeless for a decade, now has a studio apartment in Los Angeles with easy access to public transit.

Scientists report that emissions from fossil fuels rose by 1.1% in 2025, marking the second consecutive year of a small increase.

As United Nation climate talks get underway in Belem, a different kind of conference is kicking off: the People’s Summit, a gathering of activists, organizers, environmentalists and Indigenous groups from around the world.

The White House's list of 37 donors to President Donald Trump's $300 million ballroom project includes crypto billionaires, powerful financiers, tobacco companies, tech giants, media companies, longtime Republican donors and several of the president’s neighbors in Florida.

Taiwan has evacuated 8,300 people and closed schools before a tropical storm brushes the southern part of the island later Wednesday.

A group of activists skirmished with security on Tuesday at United Nations climate talks in Brazilian Amazon city Belem, briefly trying to force their way into the main venue before they were pushed back.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is criticizing the United States for missing key United Nations climate talks, calling it doubling down on stupid.

This year's United Nations climate talks in Brazil are putting a special focus on Indigenous peoples.

The southeastern U.S. has plunged into record-low temperatures, affecting 18 million people under a freeze warning across Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.

Taiwan has evacuated more than 3,000 people and closed schools and offices ahead of tropical storm Fung-wong.

The head of the International Maritime Organization said Monday he’s continuing to “advocate and campaign” for global regulations to move the shipping industry away from fossil fuels, after the United States and Saudi Arabia blocked new rules last month.

A thick layer of smog has enveloped India’s capital, New Delhi, as pollution levels surge, worsening a public health crisis.

U.N. climate negotiations are underway in Brazil, and leaders are pushing for accelerating efforts to curb global warming by drastically reducing the carbon pollution that causes it.

Typhoon Fung-wong has blown out of the northwestern Philippines after causing floods and landslides.

Large stretches of the U.S. await one of the season’s first blasts of wintry weather as temperatures dropped in the Northern Plains and snowstorms developed across the Great Lakes.

The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago.

Super Typhoon Fung-wong has slammed into the northeastern coast of the Philippines, leaving at least two people dead and forcing over a million to evacuate.

A powerful tornado in Brazil's southern state of Parana has killed six people and injured hundreds of others.

Scientists have captured rare footage of remoras, also known as sucker fish, hitching rides on humpback whales off the coast of Australia.

In a story published Nov. 7, 2025, about solar imports, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Qcells would use polysilicon refined in Washington state to make solar panels.

A former Marineland trainer is calling for federal oversight and immediate protections for the dolphins at Marineland Dolphin Adventure as the park’s parent company navigates bankruptcy proceedings.

The City of Jacksonville and Keep Jacksonville Beautiful will host a beach cleanup Saturday in Jacksonville Beach.

The Trump administration is loosening a federal rule that requires grocery stores, air-conditioning companies and others to reduce powerful greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.

Earlier this year, the Indian government announced that it has achieved its target of mixing 20% of ethanol—considered a relatively cleaner fuel—with petrol or gasoline five years ahead of schedule.

Crews are working to repair remote Alaska Native villages that were devastated by the remnants of a typhoon last month.

Shaggy, the Grammy-winning reggae artist, has stepped up to help Jamaica following Hurricane Melissa.

Brazil has unveiled long-awaited details about a plan to pay countries to preserve their tropical forests and announced it had already drawn $5.5 billion in financial pledges.

Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 114 people in the Philippines and left even more people missing as it moved on to slam Vietnam.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference Thursday morning in Palm Beach County.

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences on the tiny animals at the core of the vast ocean food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on our plates.

World leaders gathering the in Brazil's Amazon rainforest for the U.N.‘s annual climate summit warned Thursday that time is running short for urgent and decisive action to prevent the worst effects of climate change.

An analysis from World Weather Attribution reports human-caused climate change intensified the winds and rainfall unleashed by Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean.

Typhoon Kalmaegi brought fierce winds and torrential rains to Vietnam on Friday, days after the powerful storm battered the Philippines, where it left scores dead or missing.

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.

Philippine officials say the death toll from the widespread flooding and devastation caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi in the country’s central region has risen to at least 114 with 127 others reported missing, many of them in a hard-hit province still recovering from a deadly earthquake.

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.