Climate Change

Wildfires threaten rural towns in Montana, California

By Matthew Brown, Associated Press

Fire officials say Northern California will have dangerous fire weather on Friday, including possible lightning that could spark more blazes. In Montana, firefighters have scrambled to save hundreds of homes around the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation.

July was hottest month on record, NOAA says

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

"This is climate change," said Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann. "It is an exclamation mark on a summer of unprecedented heat, drought, wildfires and flooding."…

Death toll from floods in northern Turkey reaches 38

By Suzan Fraser, Associated Press

Torrential rains that pounded the Black Sea coastal provinces of Bartin, Kastamonu, Sinop and Samsun on Wednesday caused the flooding. The missing include 12-yaer-old twins who were trapped with their grandparents inside an eight-story residential building.

Northwest heat wave spurs help for vulnerable residents

By Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press

Oregon volunteers are scrambling to hand out water to homeless people in Portland's isolated encampments as the Pacific Northwest sweats through a heat wave that is gripping the normally temperate region.

How an underwater robot could help reveal mysteries of the deep

By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas

Mesobot is a state-of-the-art aquatic explorer designed to help researchers learn more about the ocean's "twilight zone."…

Greek wildfires a major ecological catastrophe, prime minister says

By Elena Becatoros, Associated Press

"We managed to save lives, but we lost forests and property," the prime minister said, describing the wildfires as "the greatest ecological catastrophe of the last few decades."…

Days of hot weather grip Southern Europe, North Africa

By Frances D'Emilio, Associated Press

Throughout the Mediterranean region, days of hot weather already have driven people indoors at midday, spoiled crops and complicated the challenge of firefighters battling wildfires.

Severe drought devastates Washington state's wheat crop

By Nicholas K. Geranios, Associated Press

A drought in eastern Washington state that is the worst since 1977 has devastated what is normally the fourth largest U.S. wheat crop.

Huge California fire grows as Montana blaze threatens towns

By Associated Press

California’s largest single wildfire in recorded history continued to grow after destroying nearly 550 homes while authorities in Montana ordered evacuations as a wind-driven blaze roared toward several remote communities.