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The Australian government has taken a major step toward implementing a key climate policy that would force chief greenhouse gas polluters to reduce emissions.

Poverty is adding to the challenges of recovering from a massive tornado that pushed through Mississippi.

Many residents in one of the Mississippi towns hit hardest by devastating tornadoes have found solace in their church communities Sunday.

In drought-stricken Spain, around 250 villagers brought back the faded practice of a special Mass and procession to pray for rain.

For exactly 50 years, Oregon’s farms and forests have been protected from urban sprawl by the nation’s first statewide law creating urban growth boundaries.

The German news agency dpa reports that a Berlin referendum that would have forced the city to ramp up its climate goals has failed because there weren't enough necessary votes in favor.

Mexico faces sanctions from the international wildlife body known as CITES for not doing enough to protect the vaquita marina, a small porpoise that is the world's most endangered marine mammal.

Recent moves by President Joe Biden to pressure TikTok and approve oil drilling in an untapped area of Alaska are testing the loyalty of a young voters.

Germany and the European Union say they have reached an agreement in their dispute over the future of cars with combustion engines, allowing the registration of new vehicles with such engines even after 2035 if they use climate-neutral fuel only.

Berlin voters on a proposal Sunday that would force the German capital to drastically ramp up its climate goals.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says humanity’s survival depends on how people manage water.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ended some of the state water restrictions.

Federal officials are expected to prohibit king salmon fishing this season along much of the West Coast, which many predict could stretch into 2024 season as the drought and other factors take their toll on the iconic Chinook fish.

Scientists for the federal government say documents that Georgia state regulators relied upon to conclude a proposed mine won't harm the nearby Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge are riddled with technical errors.

Federal officials are delaying a decision on whether to approve an oil pipeline tunnel in a Great Lakes waterway.

The World Health Organization says the death toll from Tropical Cyclone Freddy, which ravaged Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique over the past two months, now stands at more than 600 people.

India will require $900 billion over the next 30 years to move away from coal mines and thermal plants, a New Delhi based think tank said in a report Thursday.

As spring sports get underway at East Palestine High School in Ohio, organizers are trying to create normalcy for student-athletes while cleanup from the February train derailment and toxic chemical burn continues just over a mile away.

With spring now underway, California's 39 million residents are hopeful for sunnier days ahead.

Civil liberties groups and defense attorneys are outraged at the domestic terrorism charges that have been levied against 23 people who were arrested after a masked group attacked an Atlanta-area police training center construction site.

Ford’s electric vehicle business has lost $3 billion before taxes during the past two years and will lose a similar amount this year as the company invests heavily in the new technology.

One of the six oil executives with a Texas-based company who was imprisoned five years in Venezuela is suing his company for $100 million.

The United Nations chief is urging the first world conference on water in more than 45 years to address the “21st century emergency” that is wasting the world’s most important resource and has left billions of people without clean water and basic sanitation.

There's a pesky problem in a wide stretch of the Atlantic Ocean that's likely to wash up on some beaches later this year: Seaweed.

A report says 26% of the world’s population doesn’t have access to safe drinking water and 46% lacks access to basic sanitation.

President Joe Biden has established national monuments in Nevada and Texas and creating a marine sanctuary southwest of Hawaii.

African countries saddled with debt and ravaged by losses and damages from weather events like cyclones, drought and extreme temperatures have agreed to consider swapping debt to invest in climate action in a meeting of finance ministers in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

A relentless winter at Lake Tahoe has now etched its way into the history books as the Sierra's second-snowiest on record.

The federal government says endangered Atlantic salmon can coexist with dams on a river in Maine, dealing a blow to environmentalists who want to remove the dams.

France’s highest administrative body has ordered the government to better protect endangered dolphins and porpoises in a French industrial fishing hub in the Atlantic Ocean that has become controversial over links to mass deaths of cetaceans in recent years.

The Paris Olympics is going underground to find a way to keep athletes cool at the 2024 Games without air conditioners.

There's scientific agreement that carbon emissions must cease in order to address climate change, but how does a company make that transition and remain profitable.

Over a week on from Cyclone Freddy’s second and more devastating landfall in Malawi and Mozambique and nearly a month since it battered Madagascar, the effects are still being felt as locals, officials and aid workers continue to uncover the full extent of the cyclone’s destruction.

Spanish environmental groups have called on the European Union to open an inquiry into the approval of 26.4 million euros of “green” recovery funds to join two ski resorts in the rapidly warming Pyrenees mountain range.

A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid the longest drought on record in Somalia last year and half of them likely were children under 5 years old.

Humanity still has a chance, close to the last one, to prevent the worst of climate change’s future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists said Monday.

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest pearling town in the Persian Gulf on an island off one of the northern sheikhdoms of the United Arab Emirates.

A skier has been killed in a large avalanche just outside a Colorado ski resort boundary, a day after authorities recovered the body of another avalanche victim in the state.

Governments gave their blessing Sunday to a major new U.N. report on climate change, after approval was held up by a battle between rich and developing countries over emissions targets and financial aid to vulnerable nations.

The toll from an earthquake that rocked Ecuador and Peru this weekend stands at 15 dead.

New Mexico's governor has signed legislation that calls for banning the storage of spent nuclear fuel in New Mexico, unless the state provides its consent first.

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide a critical water rights case in the arid Southwest.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is facing criticism from political allies after the Biden administration approved a contentious oil drilling project in Alaska.

Authorities are still getting to grips with the scale of Cyclone Freddy’s destruction in Malawi and Mozambique since late Saturday, with over 370 people confirmed dead and several hundreds still displaced or missing.

Officials with the Biden administration have visited a Louisiana wildlife refuge touting plans to clean up and plug “orphan wells.”.

The Biden administration’s approval this week of the largest new oil project in years on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope has immediately been met by lawsuits seeking to stop the Willow project.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation granted $2.4 million Thursday for cloud seeding in the Upper Colorado River Basin.

President Joe Biden has made fighting climate change a core part of his agenda.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced seven young climate leaders for his next Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change on Thursday afternoon.

A potential casualty of the powerful rainstorms that drenched coastal California and flooded rivers is hundreds of acres of strawberries.

Kim Williams says the financial strain of going into debt for surgery has caused her a lot of guilt.

A shifting climate is changing where wine grapes can grow, and conditions are ripe for Wisconsin to become the new wine country.

Speaking to CNBC, John Neal attempted to paint a picture of how his sector would operate going forward.

Climate activists and their Democratic allies in Congress are pressing with renewed urgency for huge investments to slow global warming, after a bipartisan infrastructure plan cut out some of President Joe Biden’s key climate initiatives. Supporters say a larger, Democratic-only package now being developed in Congress must meet Biden’s promise to move the country toward carbon-free electricity, make America a global leader in electric vehicles and create millions of jobs in solar, wind and other clean- energy industries. On the other hand, a less costly bill that does not fully address climate change risks losing support from large numbers of liberal Democrats who have pledged action on an issue that Biden has called “the existential crisis of our times.”

The claims by Steve Robert in a federal racial discrimination lawsuit are set to be heard by a jury in Fort Lauderdale this fall. The city denies he was treated unfairly and says Robert “was not qualified to do the job.”