Climate and environment
United Arab Emirates struggles to recover after heaviest recorded rainfall ever hits desert nation
World
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates tried to wring itself out Thursday after the heaviest recorded rainfall ever to ...
Environmentalists protest as Biden administration approves huge oil export terminal off Texas coast
Business
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a move that environmentalists called a betrayal, the Biden administration has approved the construction of a deepwater oil ...
Water pouring out of rural Utah dam through 60-foot crack, putting nearby town at risk
U.S.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Workers hurriedly tried to shore up a rural Utah dam after a 60-foot (18-meter) crack sent water ...
Bird flu is decimating seal colonies. Scientists don’t know how to stop it
Health
PORTLAND, Maine — Avian influenza is killing tens of thousands of seals and sea lions in different corners of the world, disrupting ...
South Africa water crisis: Taps dry in Johannesburg
World
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — For two weeks, Tsholofelo Moloi has been among thousands of South Africans lining up for water as the country’s ...
Long recovery ahead for some in path of deadly tornadoes in central US
U.S.
LAKEVIEW, Ohio (AP) — Residents in a swath of the central U.S. hit by deadly tornadoes were cleaning up, assessing damage and ...
Tornadoes kill 3 and leave trails of destruction in the central US
U.S.
LAKEVIEW, Ohio (AP) — Blaine Schmidt sifted through the broken glass and splintered wood throughout his Ohio home Friday, salvaging a guitar ...
Texas nuclear weapons facility pauses operations as wildfires spread through Panhandle
U.S.
CANADIAN, Texas (AP) — Rapidly moving Texas wildfires Tuesday prompted evacuation orders in small towns and shut down a nuclear facility as ...
Feleti Teo is named Tuvalu’s new prime minister after elections that ousted Taiwan supporter
World
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tuvalu’s former Attorney General Feleti Teo was named prime minister of the tiny South Pacific nation Monday after ...
Hundreds of people are missing as the death toll from Chile’s wildfires reaches 122
World
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Volunteers in central Chile tried to remove charred metal, broken glass and other debris Monday from neighborhoods devastated ...
