A 16-year-old Swedish climate activist who crossed the Atlantic in a zero-emissions sailboat anchored in waters off New York City on Wednesday as she prepared to land at a downtown marina.

An underwater volcano is thought to have produced a sheet of pumice that stretches 58 square miles.

Leaders of the Group of Seven nations said Sunday they are preparing to help Brazil battle fires burning across the Amazon region.

Researchers say there's been a huge rise in the number of fires compared to last year. That's likely linked with a similar leap in deforestation since President Jair Bolsonaro took office.

The U.S. recycling industry is facing a quandary: Too much of the plastic we use can't be recycled, and taxpayers increasingly are on the hook for paying for all that trash to hit the landfills.

China is no longer taking the world's waste. The U.S. recycling industry is overwhelmed — it can't keep up with the plastic being churned out. This doesn't bode well for our plastic waste problem.

Rhode Island has already heated up past the 2 degrees Celsius threshold, with other states close behind.

Summer this year is hitting Greenland hard with record-shattering heat and extreme melt. By the end of the summer, about 440 billion tons of ice will have melted or calved off Greenland's giant ice sheet, scientists estimate.

With poetry, moments of silence and political speeches about the urgent need to fight climate change, Icelandic officials, activists and others bade goodbye to what once was a glacier.

Bordeaux winemakers are now cleared to grow warm climate grapes beginning next year. And late-night carb lovers on Martha’s Vineyard and in Providence are in luck — two fresh donut spots are open during nighttime hours.