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A woman shops in a supermarket in New York on Jan. 27.

Are greedy companies to blame for grocery inflation? We looked at the data

Many shoppers blame stores and manufacturers for supermarket inflation. But what do the companies' finances tell us?

Kayakers prepare to set sail at the Miramar Reservoir on Tuesday, July 9, 2024.

Boats return to Miramar Reservoir after Pure Water pipeline installation

The pipeline is part of a water purification system meant to supply nearly half of San Diego’s water by 2035.

Hawa Miso, 70, collects leaves to use as vegetables on the hillside near the Rabang camp for internally displaced persons in Rabang, in Sudan's Nuba Mountains. Approximately 10 million Sudanese have been displaced by the civil war that broke out in 2023. A team of experts backed by the United Nations believes the country is experiencing famine. But the government does not agree.

Yes there is famine in Sudan. So why isn't 'famine' being declared?

A team of independent famine experts, working under the U.N. umbrella, believe Sudan is experiencing famine. But issuing a declaration — which could bring in more aid — turns out to be complicated.

Cousins Viva Johnson (left) and Bernadette Pete harvest celery with instructor Leonardo Sugteng’aq Wassilie at Calypso Farm and Ecology Center, just outside Fairbanks, Alaska. Johnson and Pete can’t always get fresh produce in their village of Alakanuk, near the Bering Sea. In August, they participated in an Indigenous-led farmer training program at the farm.

You buy fish from Alaska. Soon you might get your vegetables from there, too

Climate change threatens many traditional foods in Alaska. But it's also making farming more possible. A new training program aims to help Alaska Native communities grow more of their own food.

A CL 415 scooper, top, drops water on the Quarry Fire as a Firehawk helicopter maneuvers for a water drop Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, southwest of Littleton, Colo.

Firefighters continue battling massive wildfire in California ahead of thunderstorms

Firefighters made progress Saturday against California's largest wildfire of the year ahead of expected thunderstorms that could unleash fire-starting lightning and erratic winds.

Frederick Richard, who helped the U.S. win a gymnastics team medal earlier in the week, struggled at times during Wednesday's individual all-around final at the Olympic Games in Paris.

In the Olympic men’s gymnastics individual all-around, the U.S. strikes out

The men’s team captured Americans’ hearts with a bronze medal in the team all-around final on Monday. But in the individual event, U.S. gymnasts Frederick Richard and Paul Juda couldn't keep up.

South Sudanese who fled from Sudan sit outside a nutrition clinic at a transit center in Renk, South Sudan, May 16, 2023. According to the U.N. migration agency the number of internally displaced people in Sudan has reached more than 10 million.

Nearly 120 million people were displaced around the world in 2023, UNHCR report says

The U.N. office on refugees found that by the end of last year, 1 in 69 people had been forced from their homes -- either within their own country or across an international border.

Fisherman Alan Belucci inspects dead fish on the banks of the Piracicaba River in a rural area of Piracicaba, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, on Wednesday. The state's environmental agency alleges that the cause of their death is irregular dumping of industrial waste into the river.

Tons of dead fish cover a river in Brazil after alleged dumping of industrial waste

An estimated 10 to 20 tons of fish died on the Piracicaba River, prosecutors said. An initial investigation points to an "irregular discharge of wastewater" from a sugar and ethanol plant.

A woman takes refuge during Greece's July 2023 heat wave. El Niño helped drive global temperatures to new heights, making it the hottest year on record.

El Niño is on the way out after a record-breaking year of heat

El Niño helped drive global average temperatures to new records over the last year. Forecasters say it's waning, but that 2024 may still be one for the record books.

Karen King gathers a core sample from a mountain hemlock tree at Lassen National Volcanic Park in northern California. King is the lead author on a study that puts the 21st Western megadrought into historical context.

How bad is the Western megadrought? Scientists look at tree rings to find context from history

Dendrochronologists found that high temperatures in the 21st century make the current drought unprecedented compared to other dry periods around the Colorado River across the past 500 years.

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