ENVIRONMENT

EPA chief Scott Pruitt announced that he would sign a rule on 10 October withdrawing the plan aimed at reducing CO2 emissions.

Tropical storm brought powerful winds and severe flooding to the southern US states after Nate landed near the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Hurricane caused serious flooding in southern US states but weakened on Sunday and was downgraded to a tropical storm.

The latest Atlantic hurricane is expected to make landfall on the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend.

Tesla CEO and real-life Iron Man wants to save Puerto Rico's broken energy network with his own solar power grid.

Scientists have found a way to predict when Old Faithful will blow its top, sending steam up to 180 feet into the air.

Neonicotinoids contaminate the majority of honey in the world. Almost half of all honey samples contained more than one neonicotinoid.

As the giant iceberg keeps moving away from Antarctica, it is estimated to reveal 2,240sq miles (5,800sq km) of seafloor with a hidden ecosystem.

The technique could bring an economy based on hydrogen fuels - which only emit water - a step closer to reality.

In recent decades there has been less and less rain in central India – but the rain that does fall is coming down in increasingly extreme storms.

Since the break happened in July, Nasa had to rely solely on thermal images and radar-based data to observe the break and watch the motion of ice.

Beaches are leaching highly radioactive caesium.

Zealandia is believed to have broken off from Australia and Antarctica around 80 million years ago.

The week's best photos, from Rohingya refugees and Mexico City earthquake, to Invictus Games, battle for Raqqa and Take a Knee protests.

The US territory of 3.4 million people has struggled through nine days with virtually no electricity and shortages of fuel and clean water in the wake of the most powerful storm to hit the island in nearly 90 years.

Vanuatu, home to about 260,000 people, is made up of about 65 islands on the geologically active Pacific Ring of Fire.

Harnessing the power of evaporation could provide as much as 70% of the energy the US is currently producing.

Bali is being shaken daily by hundreds of tremors from the mountain, which volcanologists say indicates a high chance of an eruption.

The new iceberg is believed to be unstable and has already broken into smaller chunks as it drifts into the sea.

The storm-battered US island territory has struggled through days with virtually no electricity, and more misery could be on the way thanks to a dam that might fail at any moment.

Impacts from space may have been responsible for the first recycling of the Earth's crust.

When the Mediterranean Sea dried up, there were three times more eruptions.

Researchers predict that by 2050 there will be as much plastic in the sea as there are fish.

Campi Flegrei is a large area of volcanic activity close to Naples.

The melt occurred despite having summer conditions that were not unusual.

Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico as the strongest storm to hit the US territory in nearly 90 years, even stronger than Irma.

Desperate parents join police, firefighters and volunteers as they work through the night in a frantic search for dozens of young children feared buried under a Mexico City school.

New technique could help up us move away from reliance on greenhouse gas-emitting fossil fuels.

Airline partners with renewable fuels company to turn household rubbish into jet fuel.