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WASHINGTON (AP) — The world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly United States, a cooling La Nina and predictions of a slightly less [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has nominated Neil Jacobs to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, turning to the man who was his acting NOAA chief in 2019 [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal disaster aid is nearly everywhere. About 94% of Americans live in a county that has gotten Federal Emergency Management Agency help for disasters since 2011. But [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rat infestation in many world cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington, and a new study blames http://www.apnews.com/climate-and-environment, urbanization and other human actions. A first-of-its-kind examination [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires, a [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump once expressed concern with how low showerhead flow affected his “perfect” hair. Now back in the White House, he's again taking aim at some [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2015 Paris climate agreement is not the boogeyman that punishes the United States that critics such as President Donald Trump claim. But it hasn't quite kept [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday directing the United States to again withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement, dealing a blow to worldwide efforts [...]

Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major https://apnews.com/hub/environment, weather monitoring agencies announced Friday. It's the first time [...]

Remote, icy and mostly pristine, https://apnews.com/hub/greenland plays an outsized role in the daily weather experienced by billions of people and in the climate changes taking shape all over the planet. [...]

Frigid air that normally stays trapped in the Arctic has escaped, plunging deep into the United States for an extended visit that is expected to provoke teeth-chattering but not be [...]

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Human-caused http://www.apnews.com/climate-and-environment made Atlantic hurricanes about 18 miles per hour (29 kilometers per hour) stronger in the last six years, a new scientific study found Wednesday. [...]

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — With time running down, negotiators at the United Nations annual climate talks on Wednesday returned to the puzzle of finding an agreement to bring https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-loopholes-finance-money-9184296ba593c73a478cf7097c3e6bbe to [...]

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — With time running down, negotiators at the United Nations annual climate talks on Wednesday returned to the puzzle of finding an agreement to bring https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-loopholes-finance-money-9184296ba593c73a478cf7097c3e6bbe to [...]

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Human-caused http://www.apnews.com/climate-and-environment made Atlantic hurricanes about 18 miles per hour (29 kilometers per hour) stronger in the last six years, a new scientific study found Wednesday. [...]

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — United Nations talks on getting money to curb and adapt to climate change resumed Monday with tempered hope that negotiators and ministers can work through disagreements […]

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Distractions were bigger than deals in the first week of United Nations climate talks, leaving a lot to be done, especially on the main issue of [...]

CHURCHILL, Manitoba (AP) — Sgt. Ian Van Nest rolls slowly through the streets of Churchill, his truck outfitted with a rifle and a barred back seat to hold anyone he [...]

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Hundreds of activists formed a human chain outside one of the main plenary halls at the United Nations climate summit on what is traditionally their biggest [...]

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Good or bad, the United Nations climate negotiations process itself became the focus of the international talks that aim to curb warming from coal, oil and [...]

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — More than two dozen world leaders delivered remarks at the United Nations' annual climate conference Wednesday, with many hard-hit nations detailing their nations' firsthand experience with [...]

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Even as Earth https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-global-warming-copernicus-extreme-weather-hottest-year-92c46dfd01133f14c437c5d2bf5a5f8b, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels [...]

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — No matter what kind of U-turn President-Elect Donald Trump will make on climate change, America's clean energy economy won't reverse into the dirty past, a combative [...]

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — A complex international two-week-long game of climate change poker is convening. The stakes? Just the fate of http://www.apnews.com/climate-and-environment. Curbing and coping with climate change's worsening heat, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Global efforts to fight climate change stumbled but survived the last time Donald Trump was elected president and withdrew the United States from an international climate agreement. [...]

Even for an era of more extreme weather, this autumn has seemingly shifted into yet another gear, especially in a rain-weary Europe where massive and deadly flooding in Spain's Valencia [...]

With its mighty strength and its dangerous path, https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-milton-tampa-florida-08bde4b9c29460f471d43c6512821c93 powered into a very rare threat flirting with experts' worst fears. Warm water fueled amazingly rapid intensification that took Milton from [...]

Explosively intensifying https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-milton-florida-tampa-7678939c52fdf00da748937d22df1fac is the latest freaky system to come out of what veteran hurricane scientists call the weirdest storm season of their lives. Before this Atlantic hurricane season started, [...]

Hurricanes are humanity’s reminder of the uncontrollable, chaotic power of Earth’s weather. https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-milton-tampa-bay-ace324900762a0e3c385830f3cf1479b toward Florida just days after https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-helene-fema-826effecab238ff0acf0556ad64b0df2 of the Southeast likely has some in the region wondering if [...]

ON HUDSON BAY (AP) — Playful large white beluga whales bring joy and healing to Hudson Bay. Their happy chirps leap out in an environment and economy threatened by the [...]

More than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of it — [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — The Bahamas is stuck in a financial pickle, much of it because of the whims of http://www.apnews.com/climate-and-environment bureaucracy and the fossil fuel industry, said its prime [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — The effort to save the pale blue dot called Earth is all about the green — that is, the money to finance a transition to renewable [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Six years after a teenage Greta Thunberg walked out of school in a solitary climate protest outside of the Swedish parliament, people around a warming globe [...]

CHURCHILL, Manitoba (AP) — Change has broken, remade and continues to reshape this remote town where tundra meets forest on the shore of Hudson Bay. The economic base collapsed when [...]

Summer 2024 sweltered to Earth's hottest on record, making it even more likely that this year will end up as the warmest humanity has measured, European climate service Copernicus reported [...]

The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people's bodies, according to [...]

NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — Highlighting seas that are rising at an accelerating rate, especially in the far more vulnerable Pacific island nations, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued yet another [...]

With plans for athletes to swim the Seine River through the heart of Paris, Olympic organizers essentially bet against climate change's extreme weather. For several days it appeared they would […]

After three of Earth's hottest days ever measured, the United Nations called for a flurry of efforts to try to reduce the human toll from soaring and searing temperatures, calling [...]

DELAWARE SEASHORE STATE PARK, Del. (AP) — On a muggy July evening, Delaware state biologist Jason Davis is doing what kids have done for ages: Trying to catch a firefly. [...]

The head of upcoming climate negotiations told world leaders Wednesday that a new financial aid package for poor and disaster-struck nations is the urgent, make-or-break goal of United Nations talks [...]

FOREST PARK, Illinois (AP) — Mayumi Barrack sees a pair of mating periodical cicadas getting together, whips out her phone, says, “Hi guys!' and takes their picture. “I'm not really [...]

The rate Earth http://www.apnews.com/climate-and-environment hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year's surprising https://apnews.com/article/record-hot-climate-change-warming-el-nino-db415afb5868b9ed8b9120852c09b14d caused by humans, top scientists calculated. The group of 57 scientists from around [...]

Circumstantial evidence points to http://www.apnews.com/climate-and-environment ___ as worsening the deadly deluge that just flooded Dubai and other parts of the Persian Gulf, but scientists didn't discover the definitive fingerprints of [...]

With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn't really pour or flood — at least nothing like what https://apnews.com/article/uae-historic-rain-storm-flooding-dubai-airport-disruption-3e838dbc169e52dcd6d11b64f79bdcb7 and paralyzed Dubai, meteorologists said. Cloud seeding, although decades old, [...]

Climate change will reduce future global income by about 19% in the next 25 years compared to a fictional world that's not warming, with the poorest areas and those least [...]

The levels of the crucial http://www.apnews.com/climate-and-environment gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs last year, growing at near-record fast paces, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Carbon [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA wants to come up with an out-of-this-world way to keep track of time, putting the moon on its own souped-up clock. It's not quite a time [...]

Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades [...]