Huge sea turtles slowly coming back from brink of extinction
Sea turtles are lumbering back from the brink of extinction, a new study says.
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“Nature’s gone crazy”: Winds, fire, floods and quakes plague North America
With four big hurricanes, a powerful earthquake and wildfires, it seems that nature recently has just gone nuts.
Hurricane Irma likely to be far worse than monster Andrew
For an entire generation in South Florida, Hurricane Andrew was the monster storm that reshaped a region. Irma is likely to blow that out of the water.
Harvey’s perfect storm recipe: Warm water, calm air up high
Hurricane Harvey is following the perfect recipe to be a monster storm, meteorologists say.
A striking stat: Lightning is zapping fewer Americans, not more
Lightning 鈥� once one of nature's biggest killers 鈥攊s claiming far fewer lives in the United States, mostly because we've learned to get out of the way.
2016 weather report: Extreme and anything but normal
Last year's global weather was far more extreme or record-breaking than anything approaching normal, according to a new report.
U.S. scientists contradict Trump’s climate claims
As President Donald Trump touts new oil pipelines and pledges to revive the nation's struggling coal mines, federal scientists are warning that burning fossil fuels is already driving a steep...
Draft U.S. report says extreme storms driven by climate change
Directly contradicting President Donald Trump, a draft report produced by 13 federal agencies concludes that the United States is already feeling the negative impacts of climate change, with a stark...
Environmental studies don’t support Trump’s “cleanest” claim
Data show that the U.S. is among the dirtiest countries when it comes to heat-trapping carbon pollution.
Robots, high-tech tools join battle against invasive species
A robot zaps and vacuums up venomous lionfish in Bermuda. A helicopter pelts Guam's trees with poison-baited dead mice to fight the voracious brown tree snake. A special boat with...