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This year's hurricane season got off to a very slow start. But it only takes one big storm to wreak havoc. And climate change makes such storms more likely.

Several areas of the United States are at risk from a tsunami, but a new government report finds that the states most at risk are unprepared for a disaster of the magnitude of the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands. Rob Manning of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports.

A drought is causing a slowdown in shipping traffic at the Panama Canal. It's introducing new problems for the global supply chain.

Hurricane Lee strengthened to a Category 5 storm late Thursday night, forecasters said, and could present potentially dangerous beach conditions on the U.S. East Coast as early as this Sunday.

Growing emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, could make projections for global warming far worse than estimated. Katey Walter, 31, is one of the first scientists to measure methane released from thawing permafrost in Alaska and Siberia.

The report from the Copernicus Climate Change Service also noted that Earth set a new mark for how far above normal temperatures reached in September.

It's a popular rest stop for sea lions, but the docks at the tourist hot spot these days are unusually packed out with the slippery residents. Conservationists are buoyed by the surge in visitors.

Beryl is set to strengthen into a hurricane before making landfall along the Texas coast early Monday morning.

The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hit an all time high in May. That trend must reverse in order to rein in climate change.

Now that the Trump administration has excluded Florida from its offshore drilling proposal, other places want the same. They're making their case as the public comment period gets underway.