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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Florida wildlife advocacy group has filed a legal challenge against the state's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to stop a planned December black bear hunt, arguing the agency lacks current scientific data to justify harvesting up to 187 bears.
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.
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.
About six weeks after being rescued from the Ortega River after he was struck by a vessel and injured, manatee Koa was returned to the wild on Thursday.
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.
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.
The FWC's Python Action Team – Removing Invasive Constrictors (PATRIC) program, which began in 2017, has removed a record-setting number of invasive Burmese Pythons from Florida’s Everglades, in part because of a new partnership with Miami-based company Inversa.
Tropical Storm Melissa has begun dumping rain on Hispaniola as forecasters warned of a flood risk in parts of the Caribbean region this week.
Gov. Ron DeSantis is scheduled to a hold a news conference at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday at the John C. and Mariana Jones/Hungryland Wildlife and Environmental Area in Stuart.
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.
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.
Lakewood residents living next to the New Rose Creek are taking it upon themselves to ensure marine wildlife is unharmed. New Rose Creek runs through the northern section of Lakewood and continues under San Jose Blvd before connecting with the St. Johns River. The creek is known to be home to alligators, turtles, manatees, and other marine life.
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.
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.
One of California’s worst oil spills occurred off the Santa Barbara coast in 2015, when a corroded pipeline burst.
Jacksonville City Council rejects controversial proposal for senior apartment complex on former landfill site, despite developer's cleanup promises, following strong community opposition and planning department recommendation.
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."
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.
Fernandina Beach is warning residents and visitors that the effects of a nor’easter last week have left unstable conditions along the beach.
Leaf-peeping season has arrived in the Northeast and beyond, but weeks of drought have muted this year’s autumn colors, and sent leaves fluttering to the ground earlier than usual.
Planning officials recommend denying an 84-unit apartment complex on a former Jacksonville landfill site, as residents unite with environmental concerns while developers promise supervised cleanup before construction.
The recreational harvest of flounder in all Florida state and federal waters will close Oct. 15 and remain closed through Nov. 30, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said.
Forecasters say Tropical Storm Lorenzo has gotten slightly stronger in the central tropical Atlantic Ocean but still is not threatening land.
Before white settlers came to Onondaga Lake and the city of Syracuse grew along its shore, it was a sacred place for the Onondaga Nation.
One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so.
Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction and more than half of bird species around the world are declining.
Tropical weather in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans is causing dangerous conditions in the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean.
Senate Republicans have voted to roll back restrictions on mining and drilling in federal land in three Western states.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill to prevent the state’s plan that provides insurance to homeowners who can’t get private coverage from running out of money.
A federal judge has ordered a man charged in California’s deadly Palisades Fire to remain jailed amid concerns about his mental health.
Meteorologists say La Nina has arrived, bringing cooler weather patterns worldwide.
Italian luxury sports carmaker Ferrari raised its 2025 guidance in the face of global 15% tariffs on foreign car imports to the United States as the company unveiled the new powertrain and chassis of its first fully electric production vehicle.
A Canadian government official familiar with the matter says Prime Minister Mark Carney raised the prospect of reviving the contentious Keystone XL pipeline project during his White House meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump this week.
Authorities have charged a 29-year-old man with igniting the January fire that destroyed Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades neighborhood.
