ISABELLA O’MALLEY

Two churches, one Catholic and one Baptist are flooded by the Kentucky River in Lockport, Ky., Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
Deadly April rainfall in US South and Midwest was intensified by climate change, scientists say
Human-caused climate change intensified deadly rainfall in Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and other states in early April and made it more likely to occur. That’s according to an analysis from the World Weather Attribution group of scientists.
 
Bleached coral is visible at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, off the coast of Galveston, Texas, in the Gulf of Mexico, Sept. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
84% of the world’s coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record
Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has now grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history. That’s according to the International Coral Reef Initiative.
 
Community members steer a boat past flooded vehicles, Monday, April 7, 2025, in Frankfort, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)
National Weather Service no longer translating products for non-English speakers
The National Weather Service is no longer providing translations of its products after its contract with an artificial intelligence company was allowed to lapse.
 
Cars are submerged on a freeway flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey near downtown Houston, Texas, on Aug. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
This is what forecasters mean when they talk about a 100-year flood
 
This satellite image from NOAA shows a March megastorm building across the United States, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (NOAA via AP)
March megastorm may bring blizzards, tornadoes, flooding and even fires across much of US
More than 100 million people in the U.S. are in the path of an expected massive March storm starting Friday. It’s a sprawling system that may bring blizzards, tornadoes, fires and flooding as it tracks across the Great Plains eastward.
 
Ed Yaker boils water on a Copper stove, an electric induction stove, on Feb. 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
New stove that plugs into a normal wall outlet could be major gain for health and the climate
For 47 million American households, cooking means a gas stove. Gas stoves generate gases that aren’t good for people’s health and the gas itself contributes to climate change.
 
In this satellite image provided by CSU/CIRA & NOAA taken 1:10 GMT on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, shows three cyclones, from left, Alfred, Seru and Rae east of Australia in the South Pacific. (CSU/CIRA & NOAA via AP)
Three tropical cyclones are swirling in the South Pacific
Three tropical cyclones are spinning in the South Pacific, an occurrence that scientists say is unusual.
 
Organic wild blueberry farmers Hugh and Jenny Lassen pose in their home, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025, in Cherryfield, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Farmers and rural businesses shelled out money for improvements. Will their promised rebates arrive?
A freeze on federal loans and grants is sending tremors across the rural U.S. as small business owners fear they won’t get reimbursed for purchases they made to replace polluting irrigation equipment or install solar power.
 
A 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E charges, March 8, 2024, at an electric vehicle charging station in London, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)
Trump is trying to halt the EV charger buildout. Experts say it’s not that easy
Experts are questioning President Donald Trump’s latest effort to slow the electric vehicle charging buildout in the U.S.
 
People affected by a flash flood walk on a muddy road in Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Janaki DM)
What makes a landslide and why they are familiar in Indonesia
Flash flooding and landslides on Indonesia’s main island of Java have killed at least 21 people and damaged villages and rice fields.
 
People walk past the 1900 Storm memorial sculpture on Seawall Blvd. during an icy winter storm on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025 in Galveston, Texas. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
‘Once in a lifetime’ snow hits parts of the U.S. South
A winter storm sweeping through the U.S. South on Tuesday was dumping snow at levels millions of residents haven’t seen before.
 
Flames and smoke from a fire fill the sky at the Moss Landing Power Plant Thursday Jan. 16, 2025 in Moss Landing, Calif. (Shmuel Thaler /The Santa Cruz Sentinel via AP)
A battery plant fire in California started during a boom for energy storage
A fire at a one of the world’s largest battery plants in California contained tens of thousands of lithium batteries that store power from renewable energy sources.
 
Flames and smoke from a fire fill the sky at the Moss Landing Power Plant Thursday Jan. 16, 2025 in Moss Landing, Calif. (Shmuel Thaler /The Santa Cruz Sentinel via AP)
Smoke from fire at California lithium battery plant raises concerns about air quality
A fire at the world’s largest battery storage plant in Northern California is smoldering after sending plumes of toxic smoke into the atmosphere. Evacuation orders for from 1,200 to 1,500 people were lifted Friday evening.
 
Fire crews battle the Kenneth Fire in the West Hills section of Los Angeles, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope, File)
Firefighters need better weather to fight California’s flames. When will they get relief?
Fire danger remains high in parts of Los Angeles that have been ablaze for days. But there is hope that better weather over the weekend will give firefighters battling the flames some relief.
 
The Palisades Fire burns a beach front property, Jan. 8, 2025, in Malibu, Calif. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent, File)
High winds have worsened Cal wildfires. What makes them?
High winds have been a key ingredient in the devastating fires in Los Angeles -- and they’re picking up again. But where do the winds come from, and what is wind, anyway?
 
Sheep graze on a solar farm owned by SB Energy on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in Buckholts, Texas. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Biden administration finalizes clean electricity tax credits, says Trump should keep in place
Biden administration officials say new tax credits are available for companies that generate clean electricity and it would be a mistake for President-elect Donald Trump to try to undo them.
 
FILE - Boats damaged by Hurricane Beryl wade in the water at the Bridgetown Fisheries, Barbados, July 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan, File)
Atlantic hurricane season comes to an end, leaving widespread damage in its wake
The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season comes to a close Saturday, bringing an end to a season that saw 11 hurricanes compared to the average seven, billions of dollars in damage and deaths and destruction hundreds of miles from where storms came ashore on the U.S.
 
Election official Anthony Salinger removes a sign outside the polling site at Ford Community and Performing Arts Center as early in-person voting comes to an end, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, in Dearborn, Mich. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
A look at the weather expected in battleground states on Election Day
Weather conditions can be one factor in how many people vote in person on Election Day.The strongest weather in the U.S. forecast for Tuesday is in Montana where there could be blizzard conditions, but that state is not a battleground and is strongly favored to go for Donald Trump.
 
FILE - A liquid carbon dioxide containment unit stands outside the fabrication building of Glenwood Mason Supply Company, April 18, 2023, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Carbon removal industry calls on U.S. government for regulation in new industry report
The nascent industry for removing carbon dioxide directly from the air is calling on the U.S. government to adopt standards and regulations to boost confidence in the business.
 
FILE - Snow falls on Boston Common, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
La Nina could soon arrive. Here’s what that means for winter weather
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center reports there is a 60% chance that a weak La Nina will develop this autumn and could last until March. La Nina is part of a natural climate cycle that can cause extreme weather across the planet.
 
Jackie Robinson, right, an instructor at the Energy Coordinating Agency, a nonprofit focused in part on energy equity, teaches a class at the facility on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Joe Lamberti)
Profiles in clean energy: Once incarcerated, expert moves students into climate-solution careers
In a converted warehouse in the poorest zip code in Philadelphia, students are learning to work on older homes, improve the heating and cooling, and at the same time make them more climate-friendly.
 
Homes destroyed by Hurricane Milton are seen in Grove City, Fla., Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Floridians cleaning up from Hurricane Milton are hampered by a widespread fuel shortage
Many Floridians spent much of Saturday either waiting hours in line for gas, trying to get home or beginning the arduous work of cleaning up after Hurricane Milton. Gov.
 
A USPS worker inspects trucks that had been relocated to protect them from wind but which are now underwater as intense rain from Hurricane Milton caused the Anclote River to flood, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024, in New Port Richey, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)
Experts warn ‘crazy busy’ Atlantic hurricane season is far from over
Although the Atlantic hurricane season officially ends Nov. 30, scientists say there is still the possibility for more named storms this year. That’s because warm ocean temperatures, which fuel hurricanes, are at record-level temperatures.
 
FILE - Mateo Jaramillo, CEO and co-founder of Form Energy, poses for a photograph inside the company's lab, June 8, 2023, in Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)
Climate solution: Form Energy secures $405M to speed development of long-awaited 100-hour battery
Form Energy, a company that is beginning to produce a longer-lasting alternative to lithium batteries, hit a milestone Wednesday with an announcement of $405 million in funding.
 
Pastor Shawn Moses Anglim poses for a photo in front of the First Grace United Methodist Church with solar panels that is part of the Community Lighthouse initiative that uses microgrids, a small-scale power system that can operate and provide electricity amid hurricanes, in New Orleans, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)
Climate solution: In the swelter of hurricane blackouts, some churches stay cool on clean power
As another monster storm approaches the U.S. Gulf Coast, for many people the prospect of a blackout carries high risk.
 
In this image provided by the Wilmington, N.C., Fire Department, a firefighter carries a dog through floodwaters, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in Kure Beach, N.C., (Wilmington Fire Department via AP)
‘Firehose’ storm hits part of North Carolina and scientists see climate change
The Carolinas braced for a storm that forecasters warned could bring heavy rain — as much as 6 to 8 inches in some spots.
 
Kameale Terry, the co-founder and CEO of ChargerHelp!, stands for a photo in Los Angeles, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Profiles in clean energy: She founded a business to keep EV charging stations up and running
The race is on to build out a convenient and fully functional network of electric vehicle charging stations across the U.S. Entrepreneur Kameale Terry foresaw one issue this would create: keeping that charger network up and running.
 
A school bus sits outside Johnson Senior High School in St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Doug Glass)
How this one climate fix means a school nurse sees fewer students sick from the heat
Around 36,000 schools in the U.S. are in need of updated heating and cooling systems, according to the Government Accountability Office. Many students are trying to learn in environments that are too hot and can even be harmful to their health.
 
A sign stands outside Nth Cycle, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024, in Fairfield, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)
Environment solution: New metals refinery for nickel and cobalt opens in Ohio
Mining raw materials, like nickel, for batteries harms the environment, and new mines are very difficult to get approved, so the search is on to recycle metals that have already come out of the earth.
 
FILE - Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at a campaign rally, Aug. 17, 2024, at The Astro in La Vista, Neb. (AP Photo/Bonnie Ryan, File)
In boosting clean energy in Minnesota, Walz lays foundation for climate influence if Harris wins
Minnesota had a half-century-old process for permitting clean energy projects that could keep developers waiting over a year for approval. For Gov.
 
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