Family dog accidentally fills kitchen with fire and smoke
The incident has prompted a warning from emergency responders about the importance of kitchen fire safety.
"Extremely critical fire weather" sweeps into Texas Panhandle
Multiple "high impact, large wildfires" resistant to control could break out across the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday, just as the state's largest-ever fire is nearly contained, officials and forecasters said.
Eggs of viral bald eagle parents "unlikely" to hatch, group says
The bald eagle parents that thousands have been watching in a live stream are "being gentle and tender both with the eggs and with each other."
Giant mystery monolith pops up in U.K.
Many came across the "tall and strange" object for the first time on Tuesday morning.
Both pilots fall asleep flying plane with more than 150 on board
One of the pilots woke up to find that the aircraft "was not on the correct flight path," an incident report says.
Great Barrier Reef again undergoes mass coral bleaching event
The mass bleaching event comes as the world saw record-high sea surface temperatures and the hottest February ever recorded.
Over 7,000 cows dead in Texas fires, causing "total wipeout" for many ranchers
After drought and Texas' largest-ever wildfire, many farmers are facing a "total wipeout" that could force many to leave generations-old land behind.
Power company says its facilities apparently ignited Texas' largest-ever wildfire
Xcel Energy said that "its facilities appear to have been involved in an ignition of the Smokehouse Creek Fire," the largest-ever wildfire in Texas that's burned nearly 1.1 million acres.
Last month was the hottest February on record, data shows
The director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service said while the temperature data is "remarkable," it's "not really surprising" as humans continue to warm the planet.
Texas fire chief dies responding to blaze in hard-hit Panhandle town
Fritch Volunteer Fire Chief Zeb Smith had spent every day of the last week helping his community battle Texas's historic wildfires before he died at an unrelated structure fire Tuesday morning.
Texas fires burn as much land in week as thousands did in years
A handful of wildfires have burned nearly 1.25 million acres of Texas land in just over a week – nearly as much as what was burned by thousands of fires in the state from 2017 to 2021.
Whale calf suffered "agonizing death" after vessel strike
A calf of one of the world's most endangered large whale species was found in January with "serious injuries to its head, mouth, and lip from a vessel strike."
One of the world's most populated cities is nearly out of water
The director of Mexico City's water system says the region is facing an "unprecedented situation."
Texas wildfires burn nearly 1.3 million acres in a week
The Smokehouse Creek Fire – Texas' largest wildfire and one of the biggest in U.S. history – has burned nearly 1.1 million acres alone.
Texas Panhandle wildfires are leaving "dead animals everywhere"
The Texas Panhandle wildfires have left cattle with "hooves burned off" and many of those that survived are now in need of nebulizer treatments and other care.