Climate
From urchin crushing to lab-grown kelp, efforts to save California鈥檚 kelp forests show promise
After purple urchins helped nearly wipe out 96% of California鈥檚 iconic underwater bull kelp forests over a six-year span, biologists say they are seeing promising signs that efforts to save them may be helping.
Fossil fuel influence at UN climate talks
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Protests during UN climate talks have 鈥渟hocking level of censorship鈥�
Protesters at the United Nations鈥� COP28 climate summit are demonstrating for several causes, but all are limited in what they can say, where they can go and what their signs can portray.
What is carbon capture and why does it keep coming up at COP28?
The future of fossil fuels that are warming the planet are at the core of negotiations at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai.
UN takes no immediate action at emergency meeting on Guyana-Venezuela dispute over oil-rich region
The United Nations Security Council took no immediate action at a closed emergency meeting requested by Guyana following Venezuela鈥檚 recent referendum claiming the vast oil- and mineral-rich Essequibo region that makes up a large part of its neighbor.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom advances water tunnel project amid opposition from environmental groups
A long-delayed water project in California has reached a key milestone. The Department of Water Resources on Friday released its final environmental report for an underground tunnel project.
Pritzker signs law lifting moratorium on nuclear reactors
New nuclear reactors will be allowed in Illinois in 2026 after the governor signed a law lifting a 35-year moratorium. Gov. J.B.
Maine man dies while checking thickness of lake ice, wardens say
The Maine Warden Service says a man checking the thickness of ice on a wilderness lake crashed into the icy water and drowned.
FTC opens inquiry of Chevron-Hess merger, marking second review this week of major oil industry deal
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Chevron鈥檚 acquisition of Hess oil company, the second inquiry the independent agency has opened this week of a major oil industry merger.
U.S. and UAE-backed initiative announces $9 billion more for agricultural innovation projects
A joint initiative from the United States and United Arab Emirates is announcing an additional $9 billion of funding to tackle agriculture鈥檚 role in the climate crisis.
Extremely rare white alligator is born at a Florida reptile park
An extremely rare white leucistic alligator has been born at a Florida reptile park. Gatorland Orlando said Thursday that the 19.2-inch female slithered out of its shell and into the history books as one of only a few known leucistic alligators, three of which are at the park.
On sidelines of COP28, Emirati 鈥榞reen city鈥� falls short of ambitions, but still delivers lessons
A bold, innovative project begun nearly a generation ago to erect a 鈥済reen-city鈥� in the United Arab Emirates has run into realities and largely missed its mark.
Thousands of tons of dead sardines wash ashore in northern Japan
Thousands of tons of dead sardines have washed up on a beach in northern Japan for unknown reasons. The sardines and some mackerel washed ashore in Hakodate on Japan鈥檚 northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Thursday morning, creating a sliver blanket along a stretch of beach about a half mile long.
Goggia wins first speed race of weather-hit APCup ski season in super-G. Shiffrin is 4th
Sofia Goggia has won a women鈥檚 super-G in St. Moritz as skiing鈥檚 APCup was finally able to hold its first speed race of a weather-affected season.
How to adapt to climate change may be secondary at COP28, but it鈥檚 key to saving lives, experts say
As United Nations climate talks enter their second week, negotiators who are largely focused on how to curb climate change have another thing on their plates: how to adapt to the warming that鈥檚 already here.
APWeek in Pictures: Europe and Africa
Dec. 1鈥�7, 2023
A military cadet applies lipstick before a National Day parade in Bucharest, Romania.
A ram travels in a rickshaw before a ram fighting competition in Lagos, Nigeria, and rainfall destroys a road in Gamba, Kenya.
A military cadet applies lipstick before a National Day parade in Bucharest, Romania.
A ram travels in a rickshaw before a ram fighting competition in Lagos, Nigeria, and rainfall destroys a road in Gamba, Kenya.
One side of Florida is running out of water. The other is getting bombarded with too much rain
In Florida, this year has been a tale of two states as far as rainfall totals, with the southeast coast deluged by sometimes-record rainfall and much of the Gulf coast facing a major precipitation deficit.
At COP28, pageantry is over and negotiations get intense to save a planet in peril
Teams of veteran negotiators fanned out Friday at the United Nations climate conference with orders to get the strongest, most ambitious agreements possible, especially on the central issue of the fading future of fossil fuels in a dangerously warming planet.
A Mexican startup is illegally selling a health drink from an endangered fish, advocates say
Environmental watchdogs have accused a Mexico-based startup of violating international trade law that protects the endangered totoaba fish.
Paris 2024 chief pledges to find solutions to keep Olympic surfing in Tahiti after coral damage
The Paris 2024 organizing committee president says he still wants the surfing competition at next year鈥檚 Olympics to take place in Tahiti despite the controversy surrounding the construction of the judging tower at the site, where coral has been damaged.
US touts new era of collaboration with Native American tribes to manage public lands and water
Top U.S. officials say they are entering a new era of collaboration with Native American and Alaska Native leaders in managing public lands, water and other resources.
Scientists: Climate change intensified the rains devastating East Africa
An international team of climate scientists says the ongoing catastrophic rains in East Africa have been made worse by human-induced climate change.