Soaring home insurance costs are likely to keep rising. Here's why.
Storms like Hurricane Beryl are leading to double-digit rate hikes for homeowners, while padding insurers' pockets.
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More than 1 million Houston-area customers still without power after Beryl
The slow pace of restoring power in America's fourth-largest city has put CenterPoint Energy, Houston's utility provider, under mounting scrutiny over whether it was sufficiently prepared for Beryl.
How to talk to your kids about climate anxiety, according to an expert
Elizabeth Bagley shares tips for parents on how to navigate tricky conversations about climate change with their children.
GM fined nearly $146 million for excess vehicle emissions
General Motors will also retire millions of credits it received for complying with federal regulations.
A fast, cheap solution to quickly cool down in the scorching heat
Your body cools itself through the skin. Dunking your forearms, which represent 10% of the skin's surface area, in ice cold water turbo-charges the cooling process.
Hurricane Beryl is a historic storm. Here's why.
Hurricane Beryl lashed the southeastern Caribbean as a Category 4, then strengthened even further to Category 5 — an unprecedented strength this early in the Atlantic season.
Beryl weakens but leaves millions without power in Texas
Many of the millions left without power sweltered and grumbled Tuesday as the storm gutted access to air conditioning, food and water, and smothering heat and humidity draped Houston.
Denmark to target flatulent livestock with tax in bid to fight climate change
Denmark will tax livestock farmers for the greenhouse gases emitted by their cows, sheep and pigs from 2030, the first country to do so in a bid to fight global warming.
Federal agencies spend millions every year replacing sand on beaches
Federal agencies spend millions of dollars every year replacing sand on beaches. Some experts argue it may not be the best use of tax dollars.
Millions spent fixing storm-ravaged beaches
Data shows more than 2,500 beach nourishment projects have cost more than $10 billion over the last century. Some experts believe the taxpayer money used for these projects could be better spent elsewhere.
Is beach nourishment worth it?
Beach nourishment is a topic of debate among experts regarding its use of tax dollars.
What is beach nourishment?
Beach nourishment is a technique used to restore and maintain beach width. It can protect coastal communities from flooding.
Extreme wildfires are more frequent and more destructive, study shows
Extreme wildfires damage the environment, people's health and the economy. They've doubled in the last 20 years, new study shows.
Deadly Midwest floods set to continue as mid-Atlantic heat heads south
Flooding in Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota forces emergency measures as stifling heat bakes a vast portion of the country.
Scottie Scheffler wins PGA Tour event after climate protesters run onto green
Six people protesting climate change stormed the 18th green at the Travelers Championship on Sunday, delaying the finish for about five minutes.
Scorching temperatures persist as heat wave expands for millions in U.S.
Millions of Americans – particularly those in the highly populated Interstate 95 corridor are under heat-related advisories or alerts as the squelching heat is expected to hit record-breaking temperatures in some areas.
Hawaii reaches settlement with youth who sued over climate change
The parties said the settlement was the first between a state government and youth plaintiffs to address constitutional issues arising from climate change.
Amazon to stop using plastic air pillows in packages
Amazon said customers will notice that the air pillows are missing from the orders starting in July.
Costco changed its rotisserie chicken packaging. Shoppers hate it.
Costco has started packing its popular rotisserie chicken in bags as it tries to reduce carbon emissions. Cue the complaints.
More than 1,000 die amid extreme heat at hajj in Saudia Arabia, AFP says
About 10 countries have reported a total of 1,081 deaths during the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, the AFP news agency says.
Climate change made spring's heat wave 35 times more likely — and hotter
Climate change dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this month's killer heat that's been baking the southwestern U.S., Mexico and Central America, a new flash study found.
Climate activists arrested for spray-painting private jets at airport
Just Stop Oil said the airfield was where Taylor Swift's jet was parked, but Essex police said the pop star's aircraft was not at the airport.
Alberto, hurricane season's first named storm, dissipates over Mexico
Despite weakening and having technically dissipated, Alberto was still bringing torrential rain and flash flooding to northeastern Mexico.
Activists spray Stonehenge in orange paint, demand end of fossil fuel use
The Just Stop Oil group says two activists "decorated" the ancient Stonehenge monument with "orange powder paint."
Paris Olympics could break heat records. Will it put athletes at risk?
"It is not in an athlete's DNA to stop and if the conditions are too dangerous I do think there is a risk of fatalities," one rugby player said.
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Arctic seals, most bird species on new list of threatened species
One bright spot is green sea turtles, which have recovered substantially, the IUCN said as it released its latest Red List of Threatened Species.
Bear injures 2 in Japanese grocery store, man killed in separate attack
As Japan faces rising human-bear encounters, an animal trapped in a grocery store injured two men, while a separate reported mauling proved fatal.
Interstellar comet passing by Mars seen in rare images
The images taken by two Mars orbiters show a bright, fuzzy white dot of the comet, also known as 3I/ATLAS, appearing to move against a backdrop of distant stars.
Nobel in Physics goes to 3 scientists for work on quantum technology
One of 2025's three Nobel Prize in Physics winners says the trio's work is "one of the underlying reasons that cellphones work.''
Bill Nye warns U.S. could "cede leadership to other countries" if NASA budget is cut
Bill Nye the Science Guy on Monday protested against a federal budget proposal that would see NASA's funding reduced from $24 billion to $18.8 billion.
3 scientists win Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries in immunology
Nobel Prize committee chair says discoveries by the trio of researchers were "decisive for our understanding of how the immune system functions."
Supermoon will appear tonight. Here's what to know.
The first supermoon of 2025 will arrive soon. Here's what to know about the phenomenon.
Mysterious planet is gobbling 6 billion tons of gas and dust a second
ESO's Very Large Telescope has observed a rogue planet and revealed that it is eating up gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of 6 billion tons a second.
Saturn's moon shows favorable conditions for life: "Simply phenomenal"
Enceladus has long been considered a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth because of its hidden ocean and plumes of water erupting from cracks near its south pole.
From the archives: Naturalist Jane Goodall
Famed naturalist Jane Goodall, who dedicated her life to studying chimpanzees and protecting the environment, died on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025 at age 91. In this Oct. 24, 2021 "Sunday Morning" profile, she talked with Seth Doane about her fascination with animals, her groundbreaking work with primates, and her advocacy for a more sustainable future.
Bermuda braces for Hurricane Imelda after a brush with Humberto
The outer bands of Humberto lashed Bermuda ahead of a more direct pass from the newer and stronger Hurricane Imelda.
Why crickets are as good as a thermometer
The chirping of crickets in your backyard can be a soothing seasonal sound, but did you know it's also an accurate way to tell the temperature – if you know the mathematical formula? Robert Krulwich and puppeteer Barnaby Dixon explain.
Million-year-old skull could rewrite human evolution timeline
The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.
Sub discovers unexploded Nazi bombs teeming with marine life
The study's author said "there is some irony" in the discovery that these "things that are meant to kill everything are now attracting so much life."
Why humans love talking to pets
Scientist and professor Justin Gregg joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss his new book, "Human-ish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals About the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize." He explains why we talk to pets, name objects, and even connect with inflatable tube men — and what that reveals about human nature.