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Five unoccupied homes in North Carolina’s Outer Banks collapsed into the Atlantic on Tuesday afternoon amid rough surf, the National Park Service said. The houses, in Buxton on Tower Circle Road, Ocean Drive and Cottage …
UN data show wealthy nations’ climate adaptation aid fell 7 percent to about $26 billion in 2023, leaving them unlikely to meet a $40 billion annual pledge by 2025—still only a fraction of needs. The slowdown echoes wide…
Jamaica is counting the cost after Hurricane Melissa made landfall, flooding western Jamaica, with St. Elizabeth underwater, leaving more than half a million without power, and trapping families as rescue teams work to r…
While tracing Shackleton’s Endurance route, researchers in Antarctica’s Western Weddell Sea found more than 1,000 circular fish nests forming a striking geometric neighborhood. Built by yellowfin notie rockcod on seabed …
Bill Gates urged a "strategic pivot" in climate policy, saying the world should prioritize reducing suffering in poor countries, fighting poverty and disease, over near-term emissions targets. In a memo ahead of next mon…
Far from public view, a new Survival International report warns that at least 196 uncontacted Indigenous groups in 10 countries—most in the Amazon—are under intensifying pressure from logging, mining, agribusiness and or…
Relentless rain hammered Central Florida into Monday, unleashing flash floods that stranded drivers, swamped roads and flooded homes. The National Weather Service called it a “particularly dangerous situation,” reporting…
Internal Interior Department drafts obtained by CBS News show the Trump administration is moving to auction offshore drilling leases in new areas as soon as 2026, including waters off New England, the Carolinas and Calif…
Coffee farming in Brazil is fueling deforestation that ultimately undermines the crop itself, a new Coffee Watch report warns. Using satellite imagery and government data, the group found more than 1,200 square miles of …
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum finalized plans to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s 1.5 million-acre coastal plain to potential oil and gas drilling, restoring previously canceled leases and clearing the way for…
The Trump administration announced steps to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska, including a winter lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s 1.56-million-acre coastal plain and the reinstatement of seven leas…
A sweeping new Science study led by Shedd Aquarium biologist Ross Cunning declares Florida’s elkhorn and staghorn corals functionally extinct after the record 2023 heat wave. Divers assessed more than 52,000 colonies at …
Tropical Storm Melissa is creeping through the Caribbean at as little as 2 miles an hour and could strengthen into a hurricane as steering influences stay weak and waters run unusually hot. Meteorologist Kerry Emanuel sa…
Retired by the Trump administration in May, the Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database has been relaunched outside government by Climate Central, using the same methods and led by previous administrator Ad…
Climate Central reports the first half of 2025 was the costliest on record for US disasters, with 14 events topping $1bn and $101bn in damages. Ferocious January wildfires in Los Angeles drove the toll—$61bn, about 16,00…
Typhoon Halong battered Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim delta, damaging up to 15 villages. In Kipnuk, state officials estimate 90% of homes destroyed; nearly all 700 residents were evacuated. Record tides and 107 mph winds swep…
A U.S.-backed push to derail a global carbon price for shipping threw EU climate talks off course, as Greece blocked a reference to the International Maritime Organization’s levy. After Athens dropped support at last wee…
Delhi woke to a toxic haze after Diwali as fireworks flouted court limits on “green” crackers and timing. The city’s Air Quality Index hit 360 on Tuesday—“very poor”—with some areas measuring about 24 times the WHO’s 24-…
Researchers report a cleaner way to recover rare earth elements from waste magnets, using flash joule heating and chlorine gas to vaporize unwanted metals and leave REEs behind as oxides or oxychlorides. The process, det…
Wildlife photographer Margot Raggett, who has raised £1.2m through her Remembering Wildlife books since 2015, says momentum has slipped, citing repeated US withdrawals from the Paris agreement and UK parties pledging to …
More than 20 states sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday after the agency canceled “Solar For All,” a $7 billion program intended to expand rooftop and community solar for low-income households. The suit,…
An immense storm surge from Typhoon Halong’s remnants battered western Alaska’s coastal villages, floating houses and pushing water more than six feet above normal tides. In Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, 121 homes were destro…
Federal officials rejected the lone bid for more than 6 million tons of coal under Utah’s Manti-La Sal National Forest, the third Western public-lands coal sale to collapse this month. The Interior Department said the of…
Months after the January Palisades Fire leveled his Pacific Palisades home, Spencer Pratt has recast himself as an unrelenting watchdog, arguing the catastrophe was preventable and suing the Los Angeles Department of Wat…
Australia's tropical rainforests have flipped from carbon sinks to sources, the first known worldwide, according to a Nature study of 49 years of data from 20 Queensland forests. Extreme heat, atmospheric dryness, drough…