Environment News

A train derails and spills at least 1,000 gallons of hazardous materials in the U.S. about once every two months.

If a major hurricane approaches Central Florida this season, Maria knows it's dangerous to stay inside her wooden, trailer-like home. In past storms, she evacuated to her sister's sturdier house.

RODANTHE, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Erin churned slowly toward the eastern U.S. on Tuesday, stirring up treacherous waves that already have led to dozens of water rescues and shut down beaches along the coast in the midst of summer's last hurrah.

ROME (AP) — Italy’s Ventina glacier, one of the biggest in northern Lombardy, has melted so much due to climate change that geologists can no longer measure it the way they have for the past 130 years.

MADRID (AP) — Spain tackled several major wildfires Tuesday in one of the country's most destructive fire seasons in recent decades, despite temperatures dropping across the Iberian Peninsula.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities in Oregon are trying to extinguish a fire that is burning in one of the world's tallest trees near the state's southern coast.

There's a popular T-shirt on Hatteras Island along the North Carolina Outer Banks that says: “One road on.

PEMBERTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — British Columbia's government says Joffre Lakes Park will shut for a month in about two weeks' time, to allow it to "recover from a busy summer" and allow First Nations to carry out cultural practices.

A U.S. appeals court has temporarily blocked the transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a pair of international companies that plan to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America. The transfer was scheduled for Tuesday.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan reopened damaged roads in the north and northwest and restored 70% of the region's electricity after flash floods there killed more than 300 people, officials said Tuesday, as a downpour continued to lash several flood-hit r