Typhoon Saola churns toward south China, suspending transport and delaying the school year

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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media report at least 121 passenger trains are suspending service in anticipation of the arrival of Typhoon Saola. People...

Mexican Navy hopes to expand net-snagging hooks to protect endangered vaquita porpoises

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SAN FELIPE, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s Navy said Wednesday it is planning to expand the area where it sinks concrete blocks topped with metal...

Typhoon Saola strengthens as it passes Taiwan on its way to China

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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Typhoon Saola strengthened overnight as it continued its path across the Pacific early Wednesday and headed for China's southern coast.The...

Japan asks China to urge citizens to halt harassment after start of Fukushima wastewater...

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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida asked China on Monday to urge its citizens to halt acts of harassment, including crank calls...

Removing Fukushima’s melted nuclear fuel will be harder than the release of plant’s wastewater

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OKUMA, Japan (AP) — At a small section of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s central control room, the treated water transfer switch is on....

Environmental groups recruit people of color into overwhelmingly white conservation world

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BARABOO, Wis. (AP) — Arianna Barajas never thought of herself as the outdoors type. The daughter of Mexican immigrants who grew up in Chicago's...

Takeaways from AP’s investigation into sexual harassment and assault at Antarctica’s McMurdo Station

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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Many women who work at McMurdo Station, the main United States research base in Antarctica, say the isolated environment...

Women working in Antarctica say they were left to fend for themselves against sexual...

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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — The howling winds and perpetual darkness of the Antarctic winter were easing to a frozen spring when mechanic Liz...

At Fukushima Daiichi, decommissioning the nuclear plant is far more challenging than water release

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FUTABA, Japan (AP) — For the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, managing the ever-growing volume of radioactive wastewater held in more than 1,000 tanks...

Much of Florida under state of emergency as possible tropical storm forms in Gulf...

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Forecasters are warning of possible flash flooding and landslides across the eastern Yucatan peninsula and western Cuba, and Florida...