The Trump administration will start sending more water to California farmers in the state's crop-rich Central Valley.

Supporters say the massive project would protect the Galveston Bay area from dangerous storm surge, but it remains billions of dollars short of what’s needed to build the barrier.

On a jagged coastline in Central California, brown pelicans take flight to feed on a vast school of fish just offshore.

The Legislature approved $600 million for standalone improvements, but one advocate worried the increase in direct spending undermines the Texas Water Development Board’s process.

Talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives.

President Donald Trump has announced a proposal to weaken vehicle mileage rules for the auto industry.

Researchers who examined climate change’s potential effect on the global economy say data errors led them to slightly overstate an expected drop in income over the next 25 years.

Texas earmarked $1.4 billion to help fund flood prevention projects. But after learning that so many communities turned down the money, two lawmakers who approved the program acknowledged it was flawed.

Southeast Asia has been hit by unusually severe floods this year, with late storms killing more than 1,400 people and leaving hundreds missing across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

Palo Pinto Mountains State Park in North Texas will open sometime next year. Visitors can reserve spots for a sneak peek on New Year’s Day.

Conservationists are hoping to strengthen regulations at a wildlife trade conference on birds, reptiles and other animals that are seeing their numbers decline due to the exotic pet trade.

Over 800 people remain missing after devastating floods killed over 1,000 people last week in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Improved weather has helped rescuers on Indonesia's Sumatra island recover more bodies after landslides and flash floods.

The death toll from flooding in southern Thailand has reached at least 145, according to officials.

Hundreds of black vultures circle Northern Hills Lake on the Northeast Side, drawn by numerous dead fish and ducks.

A $100-per-person charge for foreigners entering Yellowstone, Grand Canyon and other popular national parks is stoking apprehension among some tourist-oriented businesses.

INEOS plans to transform the Nini oil field in the North Sea into a carbon storage site.

The Trump administration is seeking to abandon a rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution, arguing that the Biden administration did not have authority to set the tighter standard on pollution from tailpipes, smokestacks and other industrial sources.

Volcanic activity in northern Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi volcano has subsided days after an eruption.

Opponents of the Guajolote Ranch development allege the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) exceeded its authority and violated constitutional provisions by approving a controversial wastewater permit last month, according to a motion for rehearing filed Monday.

Mental health experts expect the July 4 floods have resulted in post-traumatic stress disorder, unhealthy hypervigilance and recurring thoughts on disasters among campers.

RJ and Annie Harber have leaned on faith, their community and each other to move through each day after losing their daughters and RJ’s parents. But memories of that night still haunt them.

Experts have mixed reactions to the recent U.N. climate talks in the Amazon.

The project is at a scale of industrial development and investment unmatched in McLennan County’s history: acres of computer hardware, substations and a 1.2-gigawatt gas-fired plant capable of powering about 300,000 homes.

Bird flu and another disease have shrunk the U.S. turkey population to a 40-year low this year.

For years, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, along with many climate experts, had high hopes for the U.N. climate talks that just finished in Brazil.

Poorer nations at the Group of 20 summit in South Africa have urged world leaders to address climate action and debt issues affecting the developing world.

After two weeks of negotiations, this year’s United Nations climate talks have ended with what critics are calling a weak compromise.

United Nations climate talks in Brazil have reached a subdued agreement to deliver more money to countries hit hardest by climate change to help them adapt to the wrath of extreme weather.

A motorist in western North Carolina escaped injury when a cat carcass crashed into her windshield.

The third storm in just over a week drenched Southern California and prompted some local flooding but caused no major widespread damage before heading east over the mountains and south toward Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula.

Many of the activists, scientists and government leaders at United Nations climate talks underway in Brazil have a beef: They want more to be done to transform the world’s food system.

The president of the United Nations General Assembly says climate change is the biggest threat to world peace.

The United Nations climate talks in Brazil are near the end and there's no sign of major agreement.

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Mining industry access to federally owned coal in northeastern Wyoming will continue under a bill headed to President Donald Trump.

Researchers have completed a full accounting of water uses and losses in the Rio Grande-Bravo basin as it faces severe shortages throughout its range in the United States and Mexico.

The Trump administration is proposing new oil drilling off the California and Florida coasts for the first time in decades, as President Donald Trump seeks to expand U.S. oil production that is already leading the world.

Fire has disrupted United Nations climate talks, forcing evacuations of several buildings with just two scheduled days left and negotiators yet to announce any major agreements.

K-pop is turning up in force at the United Nations climate talks in Brazil, with fans-turned-activists hosting protest and events to mobilize their millions-strong online community to back concrete climate actions.

A new study finds that thousands of hazardous sites across the U.S. are at risk of flooding due to sea level rise that could pose public health threats to neighboring communities.

Natalie Paine, a French horn player in New Zealand’s navy, has been stationed in Antarctica on a military posting since October.

President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to roll back protections for imperiled species and the places they live.

The president of Cyprus says some of the estimated 20 trillion cubic feet of natural gas discovered in waters off the island nation could reach European markets as soon as 2027.

The return of Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to UN climate talks was hoped to spur nations to meet a self-imposed early deadline for progress on tough issues.

A Belgian farmer is taking TotalEnergies to court, arguing the company should pay for climate change damage.

A massive illegal trash dump near Oxford has sparked outrage in England.

China is rapidly replacing its aging diesel trucks with electric models, signaling a major shift in the world’s largest vehicle market.

A federal appeals court has paused a California law that requires companies that do business in the state and make more than $500 million a year to report how climate change could hurt them financially.

Brazilian authorities have raged against comments by Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz in which he appeared to look down on Belem, a city on the edge of the Amazon rainforest.

A historic ocean liner will become the world’s largest artificial reef after it’s sunk off Florida’s Gulf Coast early next year.

Artificial intelligence is being cast as both a hero and a villain at the U.N. climate talks in Brazil.

Mimmo, a bottlenose dolphin, has been delighting tourists in Venice with his acrobatic flips for months.

United Nations climate talks are bubbling to a critical point, with host Brazil pressing negotiators to make progress on key issues.

According to Politico, federal officials could relocate the agency here and tap Texas Division of Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd to lead it.

Pope Leo XIV is urging countries at United Nations climate talks to take “concrete actions” to stop climate change that is threatening the planet.

The Environmental Protection Agency says it is redefining the scope of the nation’s bedrock clean water law to limit the amount of wetlands it covers.

Rescue workers are digging through tons of mud and rubble as they searched for 34 missing people after two separate landslides in two different regions on Indonesia’s main island of Java that killed at least 18 people.

Jamaica has joined other small island nations at the United Nations climate talks to urge immediate action on climate change.

Heavy rain has swept central Vietnam, triggering landslides and floods, killing at least seven people, injuring dozens, and stranding thousands.

A powerful atmospheric river had mostly moved through California after causing at least six deaths and dousing much of the state, but lingering thunderstorms brought the risk of mudslides in areas of Los Angeles County that were recently ravaged by wildfire.

By the end of next year, the state of Para is requiring all cattle to be tagged to trace where they came from in order to be sold legally.

At the halfway point of annual United Nations climate negotiations in Brazil, it appears the talks may do more than just focus on implementing past promises, as some observers had expected.

The Czech Republic plans to build two new reactors at its Dukovany plant to expand the country's nuclear energy capacity.

An unusually strong storm system called an atmospheric river has doused Southern California, prompting flood warnings in areas of coastal Los Angeles County that recently were ravaged by wildfires.

Thousands of demonstrators marched in Belem, Brazil, at the halfway point of United Nations climate talks to demand progress from negotiators on the problem of climate change — among other causes.

Climate choices aren’t just individual actions.

Protesters in Pokemon costumes stomped around the United Nations climate conference Friday to send Japan a message: end financing of coal and natural gas projects across Southeast Asia and elsewhere.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is asking the Supreme Court to pause new California laws expected to require thousands of companies to report emissions and climate-risk information.

The Marine Mammal Center has rescued a sea otter pup in Morro Bay, California, after it was separated from its mother.

Brazil is hosting the United Nations climate talks with a focus on Indigenous peoples and the Amazon rainforest.

A London judge has ruled that BHP Group is liable for Brazil’s worst environmental disaster.

The first major blast of wintry weather in the U.S. this week brought snow, frigid temperatures and in some places something a little more magical: Frost flowers.

Panelists at The Texas Tribune Festival shared their opinions on what the state should do after voters approved a historic investment in water infrastructure.

A wildlife photographer captured a dramatic encounter on video between a harbor seal and a pod of killer whales.

Wildlife officials say a small alligator spotted along the Charles River in Boston this week has been rescued and delivered to safety.

The EPA handed over power to the Railroad Commission after a two-year review. Critics say the commission has been too lax with the industry.

Quantavia Smith, who was often homeless for a decade, now has a studio apartment in Los Angeles with easy access to public transit.

Scientists report that emissions from fossil fuels rose by 1.1% in 2025, marking the second consecutive year of a small increase.

As United Nation climate talks get underway in Belem, a different kind of conference is kicking off: the People’s Summit, a gathering of activists, organizers, environmentalists and Indigenous groups from around the world.

The White House's list of 37 donors to President Donald Trump's $300 million ballroom project includes crypto billionaires, powerful financiers, tobacco companies, tech giants, media companies, longtime Republican donors and several of the president’s neighbors in Florida.

Taiwan has evacuated 8,300 people and closed schools before a tropical storm brushes the southern part of the island later Wednesday.

A group of activists skirmished with security on Tuesday at United Nations climate talks in Brazilian Amazon city Belem, briefly trying to force their way into the main venue before they were pushed back.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is criticizing the United States for missing key United Nations climate talks, calling it doubling down on stupid.

This year's United Nations climate talks in Brazil are putting a special focus on Indigenous peoples.

The southeastern U.S. has plunged into record-low temperatures, affecting 18 million people under a freeze warning across Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.

Taiwan has evacuated more than 3,000 people and closed schools and offices ahead of tropical storm Fung-wong.

The head of the International Maritime Organization said Monday he’s continuing to “advocate and campaign” for global regulations to move the shipping industry away from fossil fuels, after the United States and Saudi Arabia blocked new rules last month.

District 6 council member Ric Galvan filed the city’s first Council Consideration Request (CCR) to examine the exponential growth of data centers in San Antonio.

The proposed project that would install 43 high-capacity wells drew the ire of East Texans, worried their wells would run dry.

Heart O’ the Hills Camp for Girls will construct new facilities out of the Guadalupe River floodplain, according to its new operators Elisabeth and John Hay.

A thick layer of smog has enveloped India’s capital, New Delhi, as pollution levels surge, worsening a public health crisis.

U.N. climate negotiations are underway in Brazil, and leaders are pushing for accelerating efforts to curb global warming by drastically reducing the carbon pollution that causes it.

Typhoon Fung-wong has blown out of the northwestern Philippines after causing floods and landslides.

Abbott framed his campaign as a means to keep Texas as a conservative bastion, touting efforts to lower property taxes, bolster education and strengthen public safety.

Large stretches of the U.S. await one of the season’s first blasts of wintry weather as temperatures dropped in the Northern Plains and snowstorms developed across the Great Lakes.

The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago.

Super Typhoon Fung-wong has slammed into the northeastern coast of the Philippines, leaving at least two people dead and forcing over a million to evacuate.

A powerful tornado in Brazil's southern state of Parana has killed six people and injured hundreds of others.

Scientists have captured rare footage of remoras, also known as sucker fish, hitching rides on humpback whales off the coast of Australia.