For people across South Asia, especially in northern India, Diwali celebrations coincide with the return of hazardous winter air, raising concerns about how to celebrate safely.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has a powerful message at the climate talks in Turkey.

Residents are cleaning up from catastrophic flooding along the Tennessee-Georgia border that forecasters are calling a once-in-a-1,000 year event.

Scientists who study whales are heartened by an unexpected discovery of a baby right whale off Canada.

Schools are often a hub for food waste: Parts of lunches brought from home don’t get eaten, or perhaps the cafeteria menu isn’t all that appetizing.

The Turkish energy minister has laid out plans for his country to wean itself away from coal and other fossil fuels as it prepares to host the COP31 climate change summit.

Matthew Martinez has lived nearly all his 60 years on a piece of property on the Navajo River and never saw severe flooding until now.

A coalition of environmental and human rights advocacy groups has filed complaints with European authorities against JBS, the world's largest meatpacker, over alleged money laundering linked to illegal Amazon deforestation.

Thunderstorms caused record flooding in two towns straddling the Georgia-Tennessee border.

The Australian government has designated a seabed storage site off its northern coast where a Japanese company plans to store hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide using a technology that has divided climate scientists.

Turkey is spotlighting its renewable energy efforts as it hosts the upcoming U.N. climate summit.

Farmers and community elders in coastal Kenya fear a proposed mining project could threaten their livelihoods and a sacred forest where their ancestors are buried.

3M has agreed to pay up to $7.35 billion to settle lawsuits over groundwater contamination from potentially harmful chemicals in firefighting foam and other products.

Massive ongoing flooding in the southwestern U.S. has turned communities into lakes of mud, with some residents starting cleanup efforts.

Every August, monarch butterflies east of the Rocky Mountains begin their migration from southern Canada and the northern United States to central Mexico to hibernate.

A chaotic climate phenomenon called El Niño is intensifying heavy rains and floods in the Southwest.

Rain is clearing but the risk of flooding remains high in storm-weary parts of the Southwest.

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For a place called the Sunshine State, there’s no shortage of storms each year. And that’s partly why experts have warned Florida homeowners to pay attention to their grass clippings.

Heavy rains and flash flooding have prompted mandatory evacuation orders in parts of the U.S. Southwest.

The National Weather Service says heavy rains are expected to bring a threat of flash flooding to already saturated areas of the U.S. Southwest.

The five people elected to serve on the Orange County Soil and Water Conservation District don’t have a budget, don’t have any power, don’t receive a paycheck and lack even basic tools like official district email addresses. Here's what you need to know about the board, and the candidates

Generations of fishermen have come to Montauk, New York, to fish for striped bass, but the fish are in the midst of a decline.

Striped bass are in decline on the East Coast and fishermen and scientists are in a race to save the iconic sport fish.

A group of U.S. lawmakers is urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio not to support Colombia’s plans to restart aerial spraying of coca crops in the Amazon, warning of risks to human health and the environment.

China is exporting a record amount of clean energy technology and that is making a dent in global emissions.

Daytona Beach crews are working to manage flooding as unusually high tides and strong winds push water into roads and neighborhoods.

King tides have inundated parts of both U.S. coasts.

During the peak of the 2025 Los Angeles fires, approximately 7 million residents were exposed to airborne lead concentrations over 24 hours that exceeded 80 times the normal background level, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.

The remote Guaitecas Archipelago has more than 40 small islands and is a gateway to Chile’s Patagonia region.

A cyclone that powered up over unusually warm ocean waters hit part of India’s coastline that’s dense with billions of dollars in plans for data centers.

Cyclone Arnab has battered India’s eastern Andhra Pradesh state, killing three people and damaging homes and farmland.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s response to the disastrous 2023 East Palestine train derailment will be investigated after dozens of residents of the small town on the Ohio-Pennsylvania and Vice President JD Vance requested the review.

President Donald Trump says he's “terminating” a Biden-era rule that aimed to reduce planet-warming emissions of methane from oil and gas drilling.

A combination of king tides and strong winds is causing flooding along Central Florida’s coastal counties and raising new beach erosion concerns. Here's what we've seen so far in Brevard and Volusia counties.

The most prominent glaciers in Colorado thinned dramatically over the past year due to record low mountain snow and record warm temperatures.

Indian authorities have evacuated tens of thousands of people from vulnerable coastal areas in the eastern state of Andhra Pradesh as a severe cyclone over the Bay of Bengal is expected to make landfall along the country’s east coast.

Environmentalists, Indigenous groups and climate scientists are relieved after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's reelection in Brazil.

The City of Satellite Beach closed down its beach crossovers, while the County said it is monitoring the conditions, but nothing has risen to emergency levels.

King tides are dramatically reshaping parts of Volusia County’s coastline, pushing sand around and leaving many beaches bare — and the worst may not be over yet. Powerful waves have created steep drop-offs along the shoreline, with little to no buffer remaining between the water and seawalls in some areas. Volusia County officials say it’s too soon to fully assess the damage, with another high tide expected to bring even more trouble.

Stockyards in New Mexico that had closed due to the New World screwworm outbreak are bustling again.

The Four Corners region of the Southwestern U.S. is warily eyeing a forecast for still more rain.

The Saamaka people in Suriname are using modern technology to map their ancestral lands.

The Saamaka people in Suriname are using modern technology to map their ancestral lands.

Tropical Storm Vance is churning off Mexico’s southwest Pacific coast after a day of gradual weakening but is threatening several western states in that country with heavy rain and possible flash flooding.

A historic ocean liner is a step closer to becoming the world’s largest artificial reef.

A rain-soaked swath of the Southwest U.S. has endured additional flooding after days of rain forced evacuations and water rescues.

Hundreds of people have lost power and been told to stay out of their homes amid flooding in the Four Corners area of the U.S. Southwest.

Vice President JD Vance is traveling the U.S. supporting Republican candidates, while another Vance is on a whirlwind tour off Mexico's Pacific Coast.

Severe flooding in the Four Corners region has led to water rescues and impassable roads.

The U.S. government has designated helium as a critical material because it’s indispensable for making semiconductors that are essential to energy generation, and the global supply is at risk of disruption.

Brazil's presidential election could be a turning point for the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest.

The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Vance has rapidly strengthened into a Category 2 storm as it nears Mexico’s Pacific Coast.

Disaster-hit Nepal will receive $20 million from the United Nations to help the Himalayan country recover from the devastating floods that killed thousands and destroyed buildings, schools, roads and dams resulting in billions of dollars of damages.

More than 50,000 people in Europe died this summer from heat, a record high amount, a new study finds.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says the Trump administration remains “full-bore ahead” with a sweeping reorganization of the Forest Service after a judge blocked the changes last week.

A federal court in Brazil has ordered the government to ensure Indigenous people can vote in Sunday’s presidential runoff.

Scientists have studied a two-century-old coral core from Maui's Olowalu reef, revealing how land use has impacted reef health.

A magnitude 7 earthquake has hit China's Tibet region, killing at least 16 people and injuring 54.

An assessment of the world's coral reef ecosystems has found that almost all face a high risk of collapse in the next 50 years mostly due to warming oceans and heat waves.

Violent weather is thrashing the U.S. Southwest.

A storm that forecasters describe as a “powerful extratropical low” with tropical storm-force winds is offshore in the Atlantic.

The National Weather Service has issued multiple warnings across parts of Arizona.

The Trump administration is asking a federal judge to let it reconsider a major federal permit granted for a large offshore wind farm.

Tropical Storm Vance has formed in the Pacific Ocean.

With host communities across the U.S. turning against their gargantuan data centers, America’s technology giants are promising to take fewer taxpayer handouts, keep fewer secrets or shower more money onto the communities willing to allow the server warehouses.

Global warming is making the El Niño weather pattern stronger, and that’s prolonging a devastating drought across a region of Central America known as the Dry Corridor.

In a story published Oct. 21, 2026, about global warming projections, The Associated Press erroneously reported the percentage of increased global carbon dioxide emissions from the United States in 2025 and the amount of the increase in world emissions in a United Nations report.

The Glacier Garden in Lucerne is showcasing artifacts from Switzerland's glaciers in an exhibit called "Treasury of Ice."

Extreme heat intensified by climate change is creating dangerous conditions for factory workers in Pakistan.

The European Union has unveiled a plan to boost its presence in the Arctic.

A battery system that stores excess energy when it’s plentiful will power an apartment building in Buffalo, New York, when the grid is strained and electricity is costly.

In the years after the 2010 BP oil spill, the number of fish in the deeper parts of the Gulf of Mexico dramatically declined.

Jackson Ramsay's family ranch in southwest Wyoming is embracing beavers as nature's engineers.

Singapore has issued preventive notices to three more Indonesian companies to tackle and prevent forest fires in Kalimantan province.

Indigenous leaders from the Amazon are taking their fight against illegal mining, drug trafficking, and deforestation to a United Nations conference in Vienna next week.

Champi becomes a Category 5 super typhoon but is moving away from land in the Pacific.

Fire crews in Southern California are working to contain a wind-driven blaze that has charred hills and burned at least six large coastal homes.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Trudy has strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane as it moves toward Mexico’s southwestern and west-central Pacific coast.

Brazil’s government announces that annual deforestation in the Amazon has fallen to its lowest level since 1988.

Promises by nations to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to finance nature and increase protections for oceans around the globe are falling short ahead of a key U.N. biodiversity conference.

The United States is making an unprecedented attempt to revive three shuttered nuclear plants to meet growing demand, especially from data centers.

High winds are fueling a fast-moving fire that has burned homes in Southern California.

Leaf-peeping season is underway, but some areas of the U.S. are seeing lots more color than others.

Hurricane Trudy has strengthened slightly as it moves towards southwestern and west-central areas of Mexico’s Pacific coast, and could keep growing through Saturday.

Chheku Lama ran uphill, urging people to flee when floodwaters hit his village, Khalte, in Nepal's Rasuwa district.

Officials say bird flu caused the death of a bald eagle named Jackie who had become an internet sensation and a symbol of the species’ recovery in California.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the U.S. winter will likely be wetter and warmer, but not necessarily snowier, due to El Niño.

Brazilian authorities are investigating whether a recent surge in Amazon wildfires was orchestrated.

Hurricane Trudy has strengthened as it approaches the Pacific coast of Mexico.

Florida is no stranger to danger. But this one could kill you if you're not careful.

A heavy downpour has shut down Istanbul, flooded homes and roads and killed at least three people.

Both climate change and a strong El Niño combined to cause Hurricane Polo to explosively intensify from a tropical storm to a Category 5 monster in just 24 hours.

Several brush fires are burning in Southern California, stoked by hot, windy weather that caused utility companies to shut off electricity for tens of thousands of people around the state.

The Istanbul governor’s office has declared schools closed and placed some public sector workers on leave after heavy rainfalls caused flooding across the city.

Mohammed Saber and his family rely on a solar kit for electricity at the bamboo-and-tarpaulin shack they call home at a camp for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

A multimillion-dollar effort to restore one of Lake County’s most environmentally troubled lakes is showing encouraging early results, with county officials confirming a dramatic reduction in phosphorus levels following the first of four planned treatments.

Hurricane Simon and the remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel have led to six deaths along Mexico’s Pacific coast.

Wyoming wildlife managers report no black-footed ferrets are being detected in the Absaroka Range foothills near Meeteetse, a key conservation area for the species.

Voters across the country are worried about the effects artificial intelligence data centers are having on electricity bills, water and the environment.