There are millions of chemical tanks around the U.S., and experts say it is exceedingly rare for them to fail.

Residents were back in their homes near a chemical tank that overheated in Southern California.

A new study says the size and damage from hailstones will increase in a warming world.

Crews are resuming the search for nine people presumed killed at a Washington state paper mill where a chemical tank ruptured.

Climbers and officials have met in Kathmandu to discuss the risks of scaling Mount Everest.

Argentine authorities have seized more than 700 marine animals trafficked from Kenya in a major wildlife trafficking bust at Buenos Aires’ Ezeiza International Airport.

Federal officials are considering cool water releases for the third consecutive year at Glen Canyon Dam in Northern Arizona this summer to safeguard the humpback chub, a federally protected fish.

A spring heat wave is scorching parts of Western Europe, breaking temperature records and triggering government warnings.

Officials have lifted evacuation orders for final 16,000 residents near a damaged chemical tank in California.

Europe is baking under unseasonal heat that is shattering temperature records and prompting government warnings after deaths were reported at amateur sports events in France.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is warning people to avoid buying gas from Chevron stations over Memorial Day weekend because of the high price at the pump.

Researchers have found that wildlife near Jackson, Wyoming, coexists with heavy human recreation.

Meteorologists predict a developing El Nino could dampen the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, but it won't eliminate storms.

The Trump administration is loosening a federal rule that requires grocery stores and air-conditioning companies to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment.

A heat wave has gripped large parts of India with roads and markets emptying during afternoons.

The U.N. General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to support strong action to prevent climate change despite recent diplomatic efforts by the United States to have the measure withdrawn.

You may have heard that recycling plastic grocery bags can jam up machinery, but what might not be as well known is that there are other ways to get rid of the stuff.

Amid a punishing drought, tariffs and the high cost of fertilizers, farming wheat has become more uncertain as farmers in western Kansas are feeling the impact in their major wheat-producing region.

Climate change is pushing starving gray whales into the San Francisco Bay in unusual numbers, where ship strikes killed at least 40% of the 21 whales found dead last year.

Two humpback whales have made record-breaking crossings between Australia and Brazil.

More than 17,000 people are under evacuation orders as a wildfire continues to threaten suburban homes in Southern California.

Both the old best and worst case future scenarios in the fight against climate change are being jettisoned by the world’s top scientists as they prepare the next series of huge United Nations reports.

A mysterious attack on an Iranian oil refinery during the Iran war caused an oil spill that affected a nearby Persian Gulf island that’s a protected breeding ground for wildlife.

A biotech company that aims to resurrect lost creatures says it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment.

Divers have recovered the bodies of two Italian divers from an underwater cave in the Maldives.

A wildfire sparked by the fatal crash of a small medical plane in New Mexico has triggered evacuations for a rural area north of the Capitan Mountains and closures in the Lincoln National Forest.

Authorities have ordered thousands of people to evacuate as a wind-driven wildfire threatens suburban homes in Southern California.

A Brazilian court is set to rule on the controversial Volta Grande gold mine project in the Amazon, operated by Canadian company Belo Sun.

Indigenous leaders say that federal contractors are desecrating sacred Native American places and cultural sites at an unprecedented pace in the rush to build more walls on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Hawaii's recent catastrophic flooding has devastated local farms, leaving many farmers struggling.

A great horned owl found stuck in a concrete mixer in Utah is now flying free after recovering at an animal sanctuary.

Global warming is causing rivers to slowly lose oxygen, threatening fish and other lives.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to relax limits that require coal-fired power plants to prevent the release of toxic heavy metals into streams and rivers.

Dust storms, heavy rain, and lightning have damaged homes and killed at least 96 people in northern India.

Environmental groups say the expected closure of a detention center in the Florida Everglades is linked to their lawsuit.

Two bald eagle hatchlings have been spotted in a Chicago park in what experts believe is a first for the Windy City in more than a century.

Colombia's Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta wetland is facing an environmental crisis due to an invasive plant native to Asia.

The Interior Department is canceling a rule that put public lands conservation on equal footing with development.

President Donald Trump is moving to suspend the federal tax on gasoline to help Americans shoulder surging fuel prices caused by the Iran war.

Use of electric vehicles in Africa is surging, led by Ethiopia, as soaring prices and fuel shortages compel countries to opt for cleaner and cheaper transport.

Brazil is on track to record its lowest Amazon deforestation rates since 2012.

David Attenborough, the world’s most famous wildlife presenter, is celebrating his 100th birthday on Friday.

Global warming extinctions usually have people picturing the last polar bears or other furry critters disappearing.

A clean energy group says the Pentagon is holding up the development of more than 250 new onshore wind farms on private lands by failing to complete its national security reviews.

The Trump administration plans to weaken some Biden-era limits on "forever chemicals" in drinking water.

A renter-friendly pilot program in New York City is aiming to reduce strain on the power grid while helping customers with power bills.

Faith leaders in Southern California are uniting after devastating twin wildfires that hit the region in January 2025 causing unprecedented losses.

Powerful storms that spawned at least three tornadoes tore through several Mississippi counties.

A new report reveals European companies have taken a third of the Indian Ocean's tropical tuna catch.

Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to figure out if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise.

Kelp, a kind of seaweed, can be used in biofuels that one day could power ships and aircraft.

Venezuela insists a mineral-rich region of Guyana was “fraudulently” taken in the 19th century.

A late spring snowstorm has started to taper off in Colorado after closing schools, delaying flights and creating slushy conditions for commuters.

Tree cover globally cools nearly half of the warming from built-up cities, but it’s doing it more in richer, cooler areas and less in hotter poorer areas where it’s needed most.

A deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that visited Antarctica has highlighted a growing tourism trend.

People in Colorado and Wyoming are getting out their snow shovels as a late-spring storm could bring Denver’s biggest snowfall of the season.

The National Park Service says debris from the demolition of the White House East Wing that was dumped at a nearby public golf course has tested positive for lead, chromium and other toxic metals.

Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation and mercury contamination.

The U.S. stock market rose to records after oil prices eased and companies kept reporting bigger profits for the start of the year than analysts expected.

California is investigating one of the Trump administration’s deals to end an offshore wind project.

President Donald Trump's administration supports a proposal to delay rules to protect a vanishing species of whale in favor of commercial fishing interests.

Another severe wildfire season is forecast for the Western U.S. due to record-breaking heat and an abysmal snowpack.

The Iran war has made life even more precarious for millions of foreign workers in the Middle East.

Nine Native American tribes are suing the federal government in a bid to stop exploratory drilling for graphite near a sacred site in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

U.S. stocks fell from their record heights, while oil prices jumped following escalations in the Middle East that may undermine the ceasefire in the war with Iran.

Spring is when wildlife from birds to deer to alligators nest or bear young, often close to humans.

Cellphone tower operators across Africa are increasingly turning to solar power to reduce reliance on costly diesel fuel and expand connectivity in off-grid areas.

The world’s maritime nations preserved a plan to adopt the first global carbon fee on shipping, as they agreed to keep working on it in the fall and adjourned their meeting.

Mexico City is sinking nearly 10 inches every year, making it one of the world’s fastest-sinking metropolitan areas.

New Zealanders are working to bring the kiwi back to the hills around Wellington.

The U.S. stock market set more records after Apple, Estee Lauder and others joined the list of companies delivering fatter profits for the start of the year than analysts expected.

President Donald Trump has granted a key approval to a major new pipeline that would move oil from Canada into the central U.S. The three-foot-wide Bridger Pipeline Expansion would carry up to 550,000 barrels of oil a day from the Canadian border with Montana down through eastern Montana and Wyoming, where it would link up with another pipeline.

A massive sea lion nicknamed Chonkers is charming tourists and locals at San Francisco's Pier 39.

A Tennessee solar developer is betting that cattle-grazing and solar panels can coexist — and benefit farmers as well as the electric grid.

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The Trump administration is spending nearly $2 billion to get energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects.

Billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer is selling himself as a class traitor in his bid for California governor.

At Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center, a weather station 15 miles south of Boston, staff and volunteers have been using many of the same tools to monitor the weather since it opened in 1885.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is back on Capitol Hill defending the administration's plan to cut in half the EPA's budget.

Four critically endangered mountain bongos arrived in Kenya on their way to their native forests after years in the care of a zoo in the Czech Republic.

The 2022 World Cup tournament in Qatar was moved from summer to winter because of the threat of extreme heat.

Officials battling two large wildfires in southern Georgia say firefighters are bracing for a long battle even after weekend rains boosted their containment efforts.

Ministers and officials are gathered in Colombia for a high-level conference aimed at accelerating the shift away from fossil fuels, with financing emerging as a key challenge.

President Donald Trump has lifted a federal ban on mining near Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, clearing the way for a Chilean company eying the region's precious metals to begin applying for permits.

President Donald Trump is withdrawing his nomination of a hospitality company executive to lead the National Park Service.

The Trump administration has announced two more payouts for energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects under development.

A Cape Cod seafood company has donated a rare two-colored lobster to a science center, sparing the critter from the kettle because of its remarkable coloration.

The Supreme Court seems divided over whether to block thousands of lawsuits alleging the maker of the weedkiller Roundup failed to warn people it could cause cancer.

The Supreme Court seems inclined to rule that police could use geofence warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users to find people near crime scenes.

Conservations say a Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time using a human-made canopy bridge to cross a public road on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

Heavy rain slowed the progress of two sprawling southern Georgia wildfires over the weekend, allowing crews to make some progress in containing the blazes that have destroyed more than 100 homes.

Fast-moving storms have pummeled parts of the Midwest with hail, strong wind and heavy rain.

Researchers say more wolves are roaming a remote Lake Superior island, using moose as one of their primary food sources.

Energy shocks linked to the Iran war are pushing households across Africa and South Asia back to charcoal and firewood as cleaner cooking methods become more expensive and unreliable.

One of two large wildfires in southeastern Georgia continues to grow and now exceeds 31 square miles.

The Atacama Desert in Chile offers some of the clearest views of the universe, thanks to its dry climate, high altitude and isolation from light pollution.

Former Idaho Gov. and U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has died at age 74.

Okello Chatrie’s cellphone gave him away.

On Newport’s south side, historic and opulent mansions sit on an avenue with mature trees that help cool the neighborhoods, clean the air and foster wildlife.

Tick season seems to be off to a fast start, with an unusually high number of bites already reported across the country.