Thousands of firefighters across California were trying to hold the line on a pair of deadly wildfires as powerful winds picked back up on Sunday, roaring across a state that had seen a slight reprieve overnight. North of Sacramento, the Camp Fire — believed to be the most destructive in state history — had killed […]

Pictures and videos show the devastation wildfires have brought to the state of California this week, forcing thousands of residents to flee the destruction and leaving at least 11 people dead. On Saturday, officials said the Camp Fire that began burning in Paradise, California, on Thursday has destroyed more than 6,700 buildings, mostly homes, making it California’s most […]

US President Donald Trump has accused climate change scientists of having a “political agenda” as he cast doubt on whether humans were responsible for the earth’s rising temperatures. But Mr Trump also said he no longer believed climate change was a hoax. The comments, made during an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes, come less than […]

The death toll from Hurricane Michael’s devastating march up the East Coast rose to 13 on Friday as the storm lashed Virginia and killed at least five people in the state. The storm was making its way toward the Atlantic Ocean on Friday as a post-tropical cyclone with winds gusting at 65 mph, according to […]

Hurricane Michael remained a very dangerous Category 3 storm Wednesday night, hours after it landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, as the strongest hurricane ever to hit that part of the state in recorded history. “The nation has watched as this storm has devastated the Panhandle,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott said on Wednesday evening, but he […]

Even though Hurricane Florence has been downgraded to Tropical Storm Florence, it is still dangerous due to its slow-moving pace that is causing torrential rains and heavy flooding. Rescue and response operations are underway Saturday in the Carolinas after Tropical Storm Florence battered homes up and down the coast, killing at least five people and leaving millions of […]

Hurricane Florence could batter parts of coastal North and South Carolina with hurricane conditions for 24 hours or more and bring up to 40 inches of rain in its center, federal emergency officials said Wednesday. The storm was expected to make landfall late Thursday or Friday in coastal North Carolina and then potentially stall churning […]

Ken Graham, director of the National Hurricane Center, doesn’t see anything in Hurricane Florence’s path that will weaken the category 4 hurricane before it makes landfall. As Hurricane Florence, a Category 4 storm, drove toward the East Coast on Tuesday, lawmakers from three states in the “monster” storm’s path have ordered mass evacuations for more […]

As Hurricane Florence barrels toward the Southeast as a Category 4 storm, South Carolina’s governor has ordered evacuations along the state’s entire coastline — which could affect up to a million people. “We know that this evacuation order is going to be inconvenient for some people,” Gov. Henry McMaster said at a news conference on […]

A Houston-based company says one of its pipelines has spilled more than 8,000 gallons of jet fuel into a river in Indiana. Buckeye Pipe Line says it shut the line down immediately when it found the pressure problem Friday night, the Associated Press reported on Sunday. Local officials say they have placed booms in St Marys River, the […]

The Trump administration on Thursday moved to freeze fuel economy standards in what officials described as an effort to give drivers access to “safer” and “more affordable” vehicles, in the latest swipe at former President Barack Obama’s legacy. The proposal comes just one day after the Trump administration announced major changes to health plans, providing […]