Treasury Secretary Steven Mnunchin said Greta Thunberg can discuss fossil fuel divestment "after she goes and studies economics in college."

Bushfires that have burnt through more than 10 million hectares in Australia could change the country’s delicate ecosystems forever, scientists say. The crisis is also a precursor of the kinds of conditions that will become frequent worldwide unless global leaders move quickly to curb the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving global warming, new research shows. Dr Thomas Duff, a bushfire behaviour expert at the University of Melbourne, said the fire season has been “exceptional” and that while it was unlikely it would become the normal annual pattern, exceptional events were becoming more frequent, stronger and harder to predict. “Considering the nature of these fires and the vegetation...

Passengers face a second day of travel chaos in the Costa Blanca today as Alicante airport remains closed following a fire.

Amid Australia’s devastating wildfires, the national Bureau of Meteorology has announced that 2019 was the country’s hottest, driest year since records began

A 2008 report commissioned by the Australian government predicted that climate change would cause the fire season to start earlier and be tense after about 2020

Australian artist "Edward" channelled his "raw emotion" about the bushfires into the massive artwork.

More than 155 authors, academics, and free speech advocates, including authors Joyce Carol Oates, Salman Rushdie and actress Molly Ringwald, are urging Babson College to reinstate Asheen Phansey, a professor who was abruptly fired by the Massachusetts college for a satirical Facebook post, calling the case "deeply disturbing" for free speech in America.

When a decorated fire captain was gunned down on a rural county road in Texas, his wife Chacey Poynter turned up as the only witness to the shooting. On this week's "48 Hours," in her first television interview, Chacey talks about what happened on the night her husband was murdered. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant joined "CBSN AM" with more on the case.

Three suspected white supremacists, who are alleged members of a violent extremist group, have been arrested on firearms charges. They were planning to be at an upcoming gun rally in Virginia. Jeff Pegues reports.