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Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN; ASSOCIATED PRESS The world's biggest iceberg - a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island - is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that's home [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN; ASSOCIATED PRESS Southern California is experiencing its most devastating winter fires in more than four decades. Fires don't usually blaze at this time of year, but specific [...]

Byline: MELINA WALLING, SETH BORENSTEIN, MICHAEL PHILLIS, SIBI ARASU; ASSOCIATED PRESS United Nations climate talks adopted a deal to inject at least US$300-billion annually in humanity's fight against climate change, [...]

Byline: Seth Borenstein; ASSOCIATED PRESS 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 [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN; ASSOCIATED PRESS The world creates about 52 million tonnes of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN, ISABELLA O'MALLEY; ASSOCIATED PRESS Sweltering heat is blanketing much of the planet, and the past seven days have been the hottest week on record, the latest grim [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN; ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER -- Earth's fever persisted last year, not quite spiking to a record high but still in the top five or six warmest on record, [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN; ASSOCIATED PRESS The world's glaciers are shrinking and disappearing faster than scientists thought, with twothirds of them projected to melt out of existence by the end of [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN; ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- James A. McDivitt, who commanded the Apollo 9 mission testing the first complete set of equipment to go to the moon, has died. [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN; ASSOCIATED PRESS Record high temperatures in urban Europe as heat waves bake the planet more often. Devastating floods, some in poorer unprepared areas. Increasing destruction from hurricanes. [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN; ASSOCIATED PRESS The grand explanation physicists use to describe how the universe works may have some major new flaws to patch after a fundamental particle was found [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN, FRANK JORDANS, ASSOCIATED PRESS Lead As an extreme year for hurricanes, wildfires and heat waves comes to an end, the head of the United Nations challenged world [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN, ASSOCIATED PRESS Lead Astronomers have found a potential sign of life high in the atmosphere of neighbouring Venus: hints there may be bizarre microbes living in the [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN; The Associated Press SPACE WASHINGTON -- A newly discovered planet is eerily similar to Earth and is sitting outside our solar system in what seems to be [...]

Byline: FRANK JORDANS and SETH BORENSTEIN; Associated Press PHYSICS GENEVA -- A pillar of physics - that nothing can go faster than the speed of light - appears to be [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN; Associated Press AERONAUTICS WASHINGTON -- To soar far away from Earth and even on to Mars, NASA has dreamed up the world's most powerful rocket, a behemoth [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN; Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Rising sea levels, sweltering temperatures, deeper droughts, and heavier downpours - global warming's serious effects are already here and getting worse, the Obama [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN; Associated Press ASTRONOMY Falling star tracked to meteorite in desert WASHINGTON -- For the first time, scientists have matched a meteorite found on Earth with a specific [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN; Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The northeastern coast of the United States is likely to see the world's biggest sea-level rise from man-made global warming, a new study [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN; Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Voting for the U.S. president and being the person whose ballot is the deciding one cast is statistically like trying to win the [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN; Associated Press WASHINGTON -- There's a 50-50 chance that the North Pole will be ice-free this summer, which would be a first in recorded history, a leading [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN; Associated Press WASHINGTON -- A chunk of Antarctic ice bigger than the city of Montreal has suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN; Associated Press WASHINGTON -- It really is the humidity. With global warming, the world isn't just getting hotter. It's getting stickier. And people are to blame, according [...]

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN; Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Surprising fossils dug up in Africa are creating messy kinks in the iconic straight line of human evolution from knuckle-dragging ape to briefcase-carrying [...]