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Work and travel resume across Taiwan after Typhoon Krathon finally dissipates
Work, classes and flights resumed across Taiwan after Typhoon Krathon brought torrential rainfall to the island but finally dissipated over a mountain range.
The search for the missing hits snags at every corner as Helene's death toll tops 200
Searchers are combing the remote mountains of North Carolina to locate the missing and those needing supplies nearly a week after Hurricane Helene barreled through the Southeast.
G20 environment ministers back funding for forest conservation
Environment ministers of the Group of 20 nations agreed Thursday to support the creation of funding sources for ecosystem services, acknowledging Brazil’s proposal to establish a trust fund for forest conservation.
Hurricane Kirk strengthens into a Category 4 storm in the Atlantic
Forecasters say Hurricane Kirk has strengthened into a Category 4 storm in the Atlantic Ocean and waves from the system could cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions this weekend.
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Hurricane Helene brings climate change to forefront of the presidential campaign
The devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene has brought climate change to the forefront of the presidential campaign.
Florida communities hit three times by hurricanes grapple with how and whether to rebuild
Brooke Hiers just a month ago left the state-issued emergency trailer where her family had lived after Hurricane Idalia slammed into her home on Florida's Gulf Coast in August of 2023.
Spider lovers scurry to Colorado town in search of mating tarantulas and community
It’s tarantula mating season on the Colorado plains, when male spiders scurry out of their burrows in search of a mate.
Grandparents found hugging each other after fallen tree killed them in their South Carolina home
John Savage says he checked on his grandparents in their bedroom as Hurricane Helene roared outside.
Hurricane Kirk strengthens into a Category 3 storm in the Atlantic
Forecasters say Hurricane Kirk has strengthened into a Category 3 storm in the Atlantic Ocean and is expected to grow rapidly into a major hurricane.
Southerners stay in touch the old-fashioned way after Helene cuts roads, power, phones
Hurricane Helene has left millions without electricity, water and phone service across the Southeast in the six days since making landfall.
Helene's flooding swept away 11 workers at a Tennessee factory. Now the state is investigating
Tennessee state authorities are investigating the company that owns a plastics factory where 11 workers were swept away by cataclysmic flooding unleashed by Hurricane Helene.
Shock of deadly floods is a reminder of Appalachia’s risk from violent storms in a warming climate
Hurricane Helene dumped heavy rain on a mountainous region hundreds of miles away from the coast.
Deadly Maui fire erupted from earlier blaze believed to have been extinguished, investigation finds
Officials say the wildfire that killed at least 102 people on Maui last year erupted from an earlier brushfire that firefighters believed they had extinguished.
2 dead and thousands evacuated as a typhoon approaches Taiwan
An approaching typhoon bringing strong winds and torrential rainfall to Taiwan has killed two people and injured more than 100 people over the past few days while forcing thousands to evacuate from low-lying or mountainous areas.
Online voting in Alaska's Fat Bear Week contest starts after an attack killed 1 contestant
Voting has started in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve.
Hurricane Helene's victims include first responders who died helping others
Hurricane Helene killed scores of people when it struck Florida late last week and then plowed through the Southeast as one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history.
San Antonio-area coal plant named one of top 50 worst polluters in US, study shows
CPS Energy’s J.K. Spruce coal power plant released "seven million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2022, making it the 42nd-worst climate polluter in the country," according to a study published by the Frontier Group.
Push to map Great Lakes bottom gains momentum amid promises effort will help fishing and shipping
What lies beneath the Great Lakes' waves is largely unknown, but there's a new push to learn more about thousands of shipwrecks, underwater infrastructure and the impacts of climate change on the bottom of the world's largest freshwater system.
Offering a dose of healing, curious beluga whales frolic in a warming Hudson Bay
Beluga whales are called the canaries of the sea because scientists say they are some of the most vocal creatures on Earth.
The Latest: Kirk becomes a hurricane as North Carolina reels from Helene
Desperate residents of the storm-battered mountains of western North Carolina lined up for water and food, hunted for cellphone signals and slogged buckets from creeks to flush toilets days after Hurricane Helene’s remnants deluged the region.
Search crews with cadaver dogs wade through muck of communities ‘wiped off the map’ by Helene
Rescuers are scouring the mountains of western North Carolina for anyone still unaccounted for since Hurricane Helene’s remnants caused catastrophic damage across the Southeast.
Swiss glaciers are receding again after 2 punishing years and despite a good start to 2024
Experts say the volume of Switzerland’s glaciers shrank again this summer and compounded the negative impact of climate change after a devastating two-year run that depleted the ice by more than 10%.
Days after Hurricane Helene, a powerless mess remains in the Southeast
Power is still out for well over 1 million people in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina five days after Hurricane Helene tore down trees and destroyed much of the electric grid.
Taiwan shuts schools and offices ahead of likely direct hit from powerful typhoon
Taiwan has canceled dozens of flights, closed schools and offices and evacuated hundreds from vulnerable areas around the island ahead of a strong typhoon expected to hit its heavily populated western coast.
Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South
Meteorologists calculate that 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.
Along Mexico's Pacific coast, flooding from Hurricane John left devastated towns and 17 dead
Along Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, floodwaters have begun to recede, leaving behind devastated towns and 17 dead, after John struck the coast once as a hurricane and again as tropical storm Desperate residents in the town of Coyuca de Benitez, about 35 miles west of Acapulco, are organizing teams of volunteers to go to outlying areas to burn the decomposing bodies of farm animals that drowned.
Harvesting hops for beer produces a lot of waste. These German groups are seeking to fix that
A startup called HopfON — a play on Hopfen, the German word for hops — and a research society in Bavaria are seeking to solve the problem of waste created during the hops harvest in Germany.
Shelter-in-place order for more than 90,000 Georgia residents is lifted after chemical fire
A weekend chemical plant fire that sent a massive plume of dark smoke into the Georgia sky has led to complaints about a strong chemical smell and haze several miles away across metro Atlanta.
As many forests fail to recover from wildfires, replanting efforts face huge odds — and obstacles
The U.S. is struggling to replant forests destroyed by increasingly destructive wildfires, with some areas unlikely to recover.
Supplies arrive by plane and by mule in North Carolina as Helene's death toll tops 130
The death toll after Hurricane Helene left a trail of destruction across the U.S. Southeast has reached at least 133.
The Latest: Helene's death toll rises to more than 130 as supplies are rushed to areas in need
A crisis has unfolded in Asheville, North Carolina, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
Trump slams US response to Helene. His own disaster-response record is marked by politics
Former President Donald Trump is criticizing the Biden administration’s response to widespread devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, even as his supporters call for cuts to federal agencies that warn of weather disasters and deliver relief to hard-hit communities.