Environment News

After a few frightening incidents seeing family and friends collapse in Phoenix's grueling heat , Ashton Dolce, 17, began to wonder why his country's leaders were not doing more to keep people safe from climate change.

GALICIA, Spain (AP) — At a humming factory in the Spanish town of O Carballino, workers sling dozens of limp octopuses into a metal cauldron, wincing as strings of slime splatter their aprons.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Typhoon Podul crossed southern Taiwan, where authorities closed schools and government offices as heavy rain threatened more damage to agriculture in the island's southeast. No major damage was reported.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck New Zealand ’s lower North Island Wednesday, with a jolt rated as moderate by the country's geological sciences agency.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Beneath red banners and a gold bust of revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi's central party school, Communist Party chief To Lam declared the arrival of “a new era of development” late last year.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian shop manager Olarewanju Ogunbona says he uses Styrofoam and plastic packs at least five times a day — nothing unusual in the megacity of Lagos, one of the world's most plastics-polluted urban areas.

ST. JOHN'S — Residents near Newfoundland and Labrador's largest city were ordered to flee a wildfire Tuesday, as thousands of other people across the province faced the prospect of leaving or losing their homes to flames.

Residents in some parts of Juneau prepared to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of flooding as rainwater and snowmelt in a huge basin dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier started to flow downstream toward the capital city.

GORDON, Texas (AP) — Thirty-five cars of a Union Pacific train derailed Tuesday afternoon near a small Texas town, officials said.

HALIFAX — Firefighters were working through the night to battle a blaze that broke out in woodlands on the western edge of Halifax on Tuesday, but a municipal official said the fire posed no threat to structures.