Environment

By Kasha Patel, CNN (CNN) — When an American battalion was trapped behind enemy lines in World War I, a pigeon delivered the coordinates that helped save the soldiers when no human messenger could. Later, pigeons carried financial news and stock prices across a 76-mile gap in Europe’s telegraph network. During the Cold War, the

Kate S. Petersen (CNN) — A massive fish kill on the Chattahoochee River west of Atlanta was reported Friday by environmental protection non-profit, Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. Chattahoochee Riverkeeper executive director Jason Ulseth told CNN he discovered the dead fish when he embarked on a river patrol Friday morning. Ulseth estimates thousands of fish, some weighing 20

WSB Kate S. Petersen (CNN) — A massive fish kill on the Chattahoochee River west of Atlanta was reported Friday by environmental protection non-profit, Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. Chattahoochee Riverkeeper executive director Jason Ulseth told CNN he discovered the dead fish when he embarked on a river patrol Friday morning. Ulseth estimates thousands of fish, some weighing

By Kasha Patel, CNN (CNN) — In southern Georgia, fast-moving flames destroyed a record number of homes; across the Plains in Nebraska, the largest fire in state history killed one person and wiped out more than 600,000 acres of cattle country; and outside Los Angeles, an unusually early blaze spurred evacuation alerts for thousands. Wildfire

By Meteorologist Mary Gilbert (CNN) — Time is ticking down to the June 1 start of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s first forecast for it is finalized. NOAA’s team of experts is predicting a below-average hurricane season, similar to other experts’ forecasts in recent weeks. The anticipated return

By Kate S. Petersen, CNN (CNN) — A large wildfire has burned a third of Santa Rosa Island in California’s Channel Islands National Park — an area home to dozens of rare plants and animals, including some found nowhere else in the world. Officials believe the blaze, which ignited Friday and grew to 17,554 acres

By Meteorologists Taylor Ward, Briana Waxman, Chris Dolce, and Kate S. Petersen (CNN) — A storm system will finally lose some steam on Tuesday after fueling a multi-day severe thunderstorm outbreak with several tornadoes in the central US. The system is pushing south and east, creating an expansive, albeit more muted, risk of severe storms

By Meteorologist Chris Dolce, CNN (CNN) — El Niño is emerging even faster than expected in the Pacific Ocean and odds are increasing that it could become historically strong — a rare “Super” El Niño — by fall or winter. This is according to a just-released update from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center that says there

By Meteorologist Briana Waxman, Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Several people are injured after a tornado in Mineral Wells, Texas, flattened a portion of the town Tuesday night, the sixth day of a severe storm outbreak that has terrorized the Midwest and South. The tornado ripped through Mineral Wells, about 80 miles west of Dallas,

CNN, WTMJ, WWMT, KSDK, KCTV, KAUZ, KTVT, JUST WIND, BABY , TRAVIS BLACKBURN, Just Wind, Baby / Travis Blackburn By Meteorologists Briana Waxman, Mary Gilbert (CNN) — Severe storms are raking across the South Tuesday afternoon and evening with giant hail and tornadoes as a multi-day severe thunderstorm outbreak enters its sixth day. At least

CNN By Meteorologists Briana Waxman, Mary Gilbert (CNN) — Parts of the central US are facing a serious threat of tornadoes and widespread damaging wind gusts Monday as a multiday severe weather outbreak enters what could be its most dangerous phase yet. A Level 4 of 5 risk of severe thunderstorms is centered mainly on

By Meteorologists Briana Waxman, Mary Gilbert (CNN) — Severe storms are raking across the South Tuesday afternoon and evening with giant hail and tornadoes as a multi-day severe thunderstorm outbreak enters its sixth day. At least one person was killed on Monday and hundreds of thousands were left without power. Tuesday evening, a tornado tore