A northern Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague.

Both Texas and North Carolina experienced “1,000-year floods” this week. But what does that mean, and how could we see so many events in such a short time period?

Communities in rural Vermont face damaged homes and washed-out roads after heavy rainfall caused flash flooding.

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge kicked off Friday, with competitors starting as early as 12:01 a.m. searching the Everglades to find and remove invasive Burmese pythons.

The maker of a wind turbine blade that broke apart off Nantucket Island and washed onto beaches last summer has agreed to a $10 million settlement.

Along the banks of creeks and rivers outside of Austin, farmers growing everything from Christmas trees to ostriches have been affected by flooding.

With $10,000 at stake and no boundaries along the Atlantic, anglers have a better shot at landing the biggest red snapper in Mayport's expanded tournament.

Officials at the Comfort Volunteer Fire Department triggered a flood warning siren last week when the Guadalupe River began to swell.

Flash floods last week in Texas caused the Guadalupe River to rise dramatically, reaching three stories high in just two hours.

A retired nurse, her son and a family friend say they were lucky to survive last week's flash floods in Texas that killed more than 100 people, including many summer campers.

Officials are tracking the largest swarm of earthquakes in more than 15 years at Mount Rainier in Washington.

Catastrophic floods often bring with them loss of power, cuts to key emergency communications and sudden hazardous situations that leave victims with only minutes or seconds to seek higher ground and stay safe.

Officials in southern New Mexico say the number of homes destroyed and damaged by a deadly flash flood will only rise as crews survey more neighborhoods in the mountain village of Ruidoso.

Each year from June to September, a series of heavy rains known as monsoons sweep through the Indian subcontinent, providing relief from heat, irrigating the country’s farms and replenishing its rivers.

Though natural disasters cycle across seasons and regions in the U.S., it’s often a shocking discovery for property owners how expansive and expensive flood and water damage can be when a major storm devastates their homes, businesses and communities.

The city of Atlantic Beach is working to combat the spread of Beach Vitex, an aggressive invasive plant threatening the vital dune ecosystems.

Most U.S. adults who've experienced major flooding in the past five years think climate change was at least a partial cause.

Crews are working to clear twisted metal, broken trees and muddy debris from streets and homes a day after monsoon rains triggered a deadly flash flood in southern New Mexico.

Scientists have linked last week’s European heat wave to human-caused climate change and estimate that climate change was responsible for 1,500 deaths.

Just weeks ago, President Donald Trump said he wanted to begin “phasing out” the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this hurricane season to “wean off of FEMA” and “bring it down to the state level.”.

Experts say climate change is making extreme weather events more frequent and severe, but that our attitudes and actions haven't kept up.

Rescuers are searching for 19 people missing in severe flooding in Nepal that swept away a key bridge connecting the country with China.

Officials in Texas are facing questions about whether they did enough to get people out of harm’s way before a flash flood swept down the Guadalupe River and killed at least 120 people, including more than two dozen children and counselors at an all-girls Christian camp.

The Guadalupe River has a history of terrible, fatal floods.

At least three people are missing in a mountain village that is a popular summer retreat in southern New Mexico after monsoon rains triggered flash flooding so intense an entire house was swept downstream.

Twin sisters Hanna and Rebecca Lawrence, aged 8, are now frozen in time.

The Trump administration is dropping plans to allow continued use of the last type of asbestos legally allowed in U.S. manufacturing after an outcry from asbestos opponents.

Texas endured widespread watershed flooding—particularly along the Guadalupe River basin. Here's why the damage was swift, severe, and in some areas—catastrophic.

Intense rainstorms are becoming more frequent in most of the U.S. — though experts say where they occur and whether they cause catastrophic flooding is largely a matter of chance.

Flights to and from Marseille have been suspended and traffic at the city’s main train station was disrupted due to a wildfire near the southern French port city.

“Tiger King” star Bhagavan “Doc” Antle has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for illegally buying endangered animals.

Submerged in about 40 meters of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides and generate electricity.

A July Fourth weekend deluge in Texas caused catastrophic flash flooding that has killed at least 89 people.

Officials in North Carolina say floodwaters from the remnants of Tropical Storm Chantal swept a woman in her car from a rural road and killed her.

A global movement started by two college students is now teaching children around the world to take real eco-action, from growing food to planting trees.

One local summer camp in the path of the disastrous flooding in central Texas was able to avoid any loss of life by closely monitoring weather reports.

Flash floods in Texas have killed at least 107 people over the Fourth of July weekend, with more than 160 still missing.

Getting ready for a hurricane’s landfall means making sure everyone in your household is prepared, including your furry family members.

Hours before a massive wall of floodwater barreled down a river in the heart of Texas Hill Country before sunrise on Friday, forecasters with the National Weather Service warned people that dangerous conditions were brewing.

Meteorologists say incredible amounts of moisture in the air fueled a storm that moved slowly over central Texas, creating conditions for fatal flash floods.

A swift-moving flood that swept through the Hill Country of Texas on Friday, killing at least 79 people and leaving many more missing, was a flash flood.

The Environmental Protection Agency says the sprawling tax and policy bill should give it a victory in its fight to freeze billions in funding for a green bank for climate friendly projects.

Scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and Tela Marine in Honduras are transplanting crossbred coral fragments onto a reef off Miami's coast.

Congressional passage of a massive bill cuts billions of dollars in spending across many areas including clean energy.

The massive tax and spending cut bill that Congress passed Thursday ends federal tax incentives for electric vehicles.

The Environmental Protection Agency has placed on administrative leave 139 employees who signed a so-called “declaration of dissent” against the federal agency's policies.

Latin America's top human rights court has issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion linking states’ human rights obligations to their duty to address climate change.

Flossie has weakened to a tropical storm off Mexico’s southwestern Pacific coast with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph.

The Western Balkans is grappling with a severe drought following an intense heat wave.

Ethiopia’s prime minister says the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile has been completed.

Clouds start to build in the early afternoon and the air becomes sweet with the promise of rain.

Republicans in Congress have advanced a bill cutting clean energy tax credits, and the industry is bracing for the impacts.

Hurricane Flossie has intensified into a Category 3 storm off Mexico’s southwestern Pacific coast.

Hurricane Flossie has once again weakened into a Category 2 hurricane off Mexico’s southwestern Pacific coast after it became a powerful Category 3 hurricane overnight.

Spanish authorities say two people have died in northeastern Spain in a wildfire that spread quickly before firefighters brought it under control.

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

The sprawling Republican budget bill approved by the Senate Tuesday removes a proposed tax on solar and wind energy projects but quickly phases out tax credits for wind, solar and other renewable energy.

Websites displaying legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared.

Hurricane Flossie has strengthened to a Category 3 cyclone while remaining off the Pacific coast of Mexico.

Dozens of people are being evacuated by helicopter in Austria after a mudslide covered homes and mountain huts in the Gschnitztal valley in Tyrol in the southwest of the Alpine country.

Europe sizzled in its first major heat wave of the summer on Tuesday.

A Himalayan village in Nepal has vanished — emptied by climate change.

A solar minigrid in a Goma neighborhood where almost everyone lacked access to electricity just five years ago is offering a flicker of hope despite widespread poverty and the city’s violent takeover by Congolese rebels early this year.

A Republican plan heading to a vote in the Senate would quickly end incentives for clean energy and impose new taxes on some wind and solar projects, while boosting production of coal used to make steel.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it is delaying by one month the planned cutoff of satellite data that helps forecasters track hurricanes.

No state may have more to lose than Georgia as Republicans in Congress look to gut federal subsidies that aid both the solar and electric vehicle industries.

A group of Environmental Protection Agency employees has published a declaration of dissent to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin over the agency's leadership and policies.

A heat wave covered much of Europe on Monday, with record-hot first day of play at Wimbledon and forest fires in Turkey and France.

Heavy monsoon rains and flash floods in Pakistan have killed at least 46 people and injured dozens.

Flint, Michigan, is still working on replacing all of its lead pipes.

Major heat waves have pushed temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius or 104 degrees Fahrenheit in southern European countries including Italy, Spain and Greece.

The Florida immigration detention site dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” is being met by opposition from a range of groups concerned with its impacts on local Native American tribes, the Everglades ecosystem and human rights for migrants.

Japan has successfully launched a climate monitoring satellite using its H-2A rocket.

Child safety advocates are warning about the dangers of heatstroke from leaving kids in hot cars.

Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office has signed a landmark agreement with Elon Musk’s Starlink to limit the use of its satellite internet service in illegal mining and other criminal operations in the Amazon.

Crews have reopened a section of Interstate 40 along its narrow corridor through the Great Smoky Mountains after flooding and a rock slide closed the major cross country highway for nine days.

More than 200 people across a half-dozen southern states have reported witnessing a mysterious object streak across the sky.

Weather experts are warning that hurricane forecasts will be severely hampered by the upcoming cutoff of key data from U.S. Department of Defense satellites.

Flash floods triggered by pre-monsoon rains swept away dozens of tourists in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least eight people.

Fans and players weren’t the only ones coping with extreme heat this week at the Club World Cup.

An object bright enough to be seen streaking across the midday sky has fallen across parts of the Southeast U.S. The National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia, says the object was likely either a meteor or space junk.

Louisiana is the latest state to redefine natural gas as green energy, even though it’s a fossil fuel that emits planet-warming greenhouse gases.

The National Transportation Safety Board says roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because operators failed to shut it down for nearly 13 hours after their data first hinted at a problem.

A large wildfire has broken out south of Athens, forcing evacuations and road closures near the ancient Temple of Poseidon.

Power plants and industrial facilities that emit planet-warming carbon dioxide are hopeful that Congress will keep tax credits for capturing the gas and storing it deep underground.

Sydney’s harbor becomes a humpback highway in winter as the whales migrate from feeding grounds in Antarctica to breeding areas off Australia’s coast.

Weather forecasters are predicting wild temperature swings across the eastern U.S. Wednesday was expected to be another scorcher before temperatures plunge as much as 30 degrees.

Music lovers will flock to southwestern England this week for the Glastonbury music festival.

The No. 1 draw of the beach near Fort Clinch State Park in Nassau County is the chance to hunt for the plentiful shark teeth that can be found on the shore.

Starting Friday, Seaside Park will be closed off to traffic because of the renourishment project that’s underway at the beach. The US Army Corps tried to put a pause on the project during the 4th of July weekend, but couldn’t.

Fernandina Beach is undergoing a $20 million shoreline restoration project to combat erosion and protect coastal communities from storm damage.

From the waterways to the trails to the beaches, here are some hidden gems you don’t want to miss when you venture up to Nassau County’s coast.

When you think of Fernandina, you probably picture peaceful beaches and pristine coastline and that’s exactly what locals and volunteers are fighting to protect. But it’s not just beachgoers who love the sand. A fast-spreading invader is threatening the natural landscape.

Anxiety, grief, sadness, anger.

One of Switzerland's glaciologists says his teams are noticing a strange phenomenon in the Alpine country's glaciers.

A federal judge has partially granted a preliminary injunction that sought to release funds for the build out of electric vehicle chargers in more than a dozen states.

The new immigration detention center at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades that President Donald Trump visited was heralded by Republicans as a potential model for other states to aggressively ramp up detention and deportation efforts.

A plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined the proposal by Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee would violate the chamber’s rules.

The temperature in New York City has reached 100 degrees as the eastern U.S. sweltered under an extreme heat wave.

Extreme heat makes it especially hard for your body to cool down, so you need to be extra careful if you exercise or play sports when it’s baking outside.