MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Philippine officials said Friday that years of disaster-preparedness drills helped prevent a larger casualty toll when one of the strongest earthquakes in 50 years struck the south and left 46 people dead with 38 others mis...

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins watched sterile flies being released to fight the New World screwworm on Thursday and visited the Texas ranch where one of the first cases of the pest was detected. The screwworm could devastate the nation's ...

SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazilian officials on Thursday announced a sharp drop in deforestation rates, pushing back on one of the arguments that the Trump administration used last week to justify additional tariffs on the South American country. In May, Ama...

WASHINGTON (AP) - El Nino, Nature's chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow to historic strength, meteorologists announced Thursday. Experts said the El Nino, a natural warming cycle, should further heat...

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan (AP) - Japan has resumed operations at the world's largest nuclear power plant to help the country meet huge electricity demands during a global oil crisis, but the reboot highlights a big problem: Japan is running out of space for...

Extreme floods that once swamped coastal communities only rarely are becoming far more common as climate change caused by humans pushes sea levels higher, according to new research published Wednesday. Experts say the findings are crucial for making ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Scientists have unearthed communities of marine life - including jellyfish, tubeworms and brittle stars - thriving on a millions-year-old whale graveyard. These graveyards form when whale carcasses fall to the sea floor, becoming a su...

NEW YORK (AP) - A massive underground detector aimed at understanding the mysterious ghost particles in our universe released its first major results on Wednesday. The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in China started collecting data in Augu...

NEW YORK (AP) - When SpaceX makes its debut on the U.S. stock market, it wants smaller-pocketed, mom-and-pop investors to play a big role in what may be the biggest IPO ever. Elon Musk's rocket company, formally known as Space Exploration Technologie...

Even as President Donald Trump boosts coal over clean energy, solar power is hitting new milestones in the U.S. and remains the leading source of new power. Data released Wednesday by global energy think tank Ember, along with a report by the Solar E...