Pope Leo XIV has traveled to the Canary Islands, an epicenter of the European migration debate.

Meteorologists are forecasting 8-14 named storms (winds of 39 MPH or higher) during the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season

Meteorologists predict a developing El Nino could dampen the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, but it won't eliminate storms.

This stowaway truly was sly as a fox.

In 2022, a woman now living in Metro Detroit was hiding in cold, crowded basements across the Atlantic as the war in Ukraine raged above ground. This week marks four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a grim anniversary etched in her memory.

A video of Reggae, a 33-year-old Atlantic harbor seal at the New England Aquarium, hugging and fetching a rubber duck has drawn attention on social media.

Thousands of homes and businesses across northern France and southern England are without power and residents faced widespread travel delays after a storm swept in off the Atlantic.

Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 114 people in the Philippines and left even more people missing as it moved on to slam Vietnam.

An analysis from World Weather Attribution reports human-caused climate change intensified the winds and rainfall unleashed by Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean.

A driver has rammed his car into pedestrians and cyclists on the holiday island of Ile d’Oléron, off the west coast of France, leaving at least two people in a critical condition and three others injured.

Hurricane Melissa has rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm due to warming oceans linked to climate change.

Tropical Storm Raymond has formed in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Jerry has strengthened in the Atlantic Ocean on a path toward the Caribbean.

A team of excavators has found $1 million in treasure from a centuries-old Spanish shipwreck off a stretch of Florida known as the “Treasure Coast.”.

Six unoccupied houses along North Carolina’s Outer Banks have collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean.

Crews have been preparing for a weather system forecast to hit South Carolina as a hurricane early next week.

Crews are preparing for a weather system forecast to near South Carolina as a hurricane early next week.

Metro Detroit begins the week and the start of fall on a soggy note, as showers and thunderstorms return to the area.

Hurricane Erin is churning slowly toward the eastern U.S. coast and stirring up waves that already have forced dozens of beach rescues.

Forecasters say Erin has exploded into a major hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean just north of the Caribbean.

The Kennebec River in Maine's capital city of Augusta is known for its population of Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon.

The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Andrea is expected to weaken quickly and become a post-tropical low soon.

With warmer-than-normal ocean waters, forecasters are expecting another unusually busy hurricane season for the Atlantic.

Thirteen Michigan counties, including Macomb and Oakland, received grant funding for projects on lakes and streams that will help benefit fish and aquatic systems.

Microsoft has pledged to fight any U.S. government order to halt data center operations in Europe, as it sought to soothe concerns among European customers that trans-Atlantic tensions would lead to service disruptions.

Four names have been retired from the rotating list of hurricane names used by the World Meteorological Organization due to the damage they caused

The East Coast is due for a whiplash-inducing rainy, windy and potentially dangerous stretch of weather.

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season comes to a close Saturday, bringing an end to a season that saw 11 hurricanes compared to the average seven, billions of dollars in damage and deaths and destruction hundreds of miles from where storms came ashore on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

A hurricane watch for the Cayman Islands and a tropical storm warning for Jamaica have been issued as a weather system in the Caribbean is expected to strengthen.

Pleasant weather across Southeast Michigan again today. Seasonally warm on Friday with daytime temperatures ranging 75 to 80 degrees.

Explosively intensifying Hurricane Milton is the latest freaky system to come out of what veteran hurricane scientists call the weirdest storm season of their lives.

A slow-motion catastrophe has been playing out in the coastal North Carolina village of Rodanthe.

Heavy winds and rains from a storm in the Atlantic that wasn’t quite organized enough to get a name hit a stretch of the southeastern U.S. coast.

Federal forecasters are still predicting a highly active Atlantic hurricane season thanks to near-record sea surface temperatures and the possibility of La Nina.

Showers and thunderstorms are returning to Metro Detroit’s weather forecast for most of the workweek.

The sunshine will continue for the end of the weekend on Sunday, but with a southerly flow starting to kick in, we will bring in a little more humidity as we work throughout the afternoon.

Hurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in right now and the kind of season ahead.

Hurricane Beryl has strengthened to Category 5 status as it crosses islands in the southeastern Caribbean.

Animal rescuers were trying to keep dozens of dolphins away from shallow waters around Cape Cod after 125 of the creatures earlier stranded themselves.

Beryl has grown into a hurricane in the Atlantic and is forecast to strengthen into a major storm as it nears the Caribbean.

Scientists are trying to determine why bird flu kills some animals quickly but leads to mild illnesses in others.

U.S. stocks hung around their record levels as Wall Street remained relatively quiet following another slide in Europe.

The total global volume of fish, shrimp, clams and other aquatic animals that are harvested by farming has topped the amount fished in the wild from the world’s waters for the first time ever.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said that fisheries staff had to kill just over 31,000 Atlantic salmon that were sick with bacterial kidney disease (BKD).

Get ready for what nearly all the experts think will be one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record thanks to unprecedented ocean heat and a brewing La Nina.

Scientists say temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history.

Clouds may spoil the view for many eclipse watchers.

North America is on the verge of another masking of the sun during a total solar eclipse.

Emergency services in Spain say four people have died in three separate incidents on Spain’s Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines after falling into the sea.

For centuries, women in one English town have run a pancake race to mark the day before the start of Lent.

A busy Atlantic hurricane season is now coming to a close.

A study says Atlantic hurricanes are now more than twice as likely as before to rapidly intensify from wimpy minor hurricanes to powerful and catastrophic in just 24 hours.

Tropical Storm Philippe is aiming for Bermuda on a path that would eventually take it to Atlantic Canada and eastern New England.

Tropical Storm Philippe is drenching the U.S. and British Virgin Islands as it spins away from the northeast Caribbean on a path that would take it toward Bermuda and later New England and Atlantic Canada.

Tropical Storm Philippe has made landfall in the tiny island of Barbuda as it unleashes heavy rains and flash floods in the northeast Caribbean.

More than 30 Atlantic countries on four continents have committed to bolster coordination on economic development, environmental protection, maritime issues and more.

Hurricane Lee is swirling in open waters on Thursday and forecasters warn it could become a Category 5 storm.

Tropical Storm Lee has strengthened into a hurricane as it churns through the open waters of the Atlantic on a path that would take it near the northeast Caribbean.

Federal forecasters are doubling chances of a nasty Atlantic hurricane season this summer and fall.

After months of gradually warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean, NOAA officially issued an El Nino advisory Thursday and stated that this one might be different than the others.

It’s about this time every year where we look for Saharan dust to make its several thousand-mile trip across the Atlantic.

Tropical Storm Arlene, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, has formed in the Gulf of Mexico.

Two clashing climatic behemoths, one natural and one with human fingerprints, will square off this summer to determine how quiet or chaotic the Atlantic hurricane season will be.

A group of fish farmers wants to be the first to bring offshore aquaculture to the waters off New England by growing salmon and trout miles from land.

Weather officials say they’re retiring the names Fiona and Ian from the rotating list of Atlantic tropical cyclone names because of the death and destruction caused by the most recent storms with those names.

An Atlantic hurricane season with 14 named storms has ended, leaving residents in the Florida Keys to celebrate even though others around Florida and Puerto Rico continue to deal with the damage caused by Hurricanes Ian, Nicole and Fiona.

Hurricane Ian is quickly gaining monstrous strength as it moves over oceans partly heated up by climate change, just like 30 other Atlantic tropical storms since 2017 that became much more powerful in less than a day.

The best way to be prepared for a hurricane storm surge is to know your evacuation zone and plan your destination and travel routes ahead of time.

We’re tracking live updates on Hurricane Ian as it nears Cuba and eventually Florida this week in the Atlantic. Here’s how to find your evacuation zone, as counties begin to issue orders.

We’re tracking live updates on Hurricane Ian as it nears Cuba and eventually Florida this week in the Atlantic. Here’s how to find your evacuation zone, in the case of an evacuation order.

We’re tracking live updates on Hurricane Ian as it nears Cuba and eventually Florida this week in the Atlantic.

Rail advocates are dusting off a proposal for passenger train service between Montreal and Boston, riding on a renewed interest in train travel.

Tropical Storm Danielle has strengthened into a hurricane - the first of an unusually quiet storm season.

A crewless robotic boat retracing the 1620 sea voyage of the Mayflower has landed near Plymouth Rock.

The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season is headed toward Bermuda after killing three people in Cuba and flooding roads in Florida.

Hurricane season starts Wednesday and it's looking busy: Every factor out there is pointing to another nasty year in the Atlantic.

La Nina, the flip side of the better known El Nino weather condition, keeps popping up.

Federal meteorologists say the Atlantic should expect another extra busy hurricane season this year.

A more than 3,000-year-old gold signet ring is back in Greece after a string of adventures.

A new study links how many hurricanes form worldwide to air pollution levels.

World leaders are trying to save the planet’s oceans in talks on France’s Atlantic coast aimed at fighting overfishing and plastic pollution, and finding fairer ways to manage the seas.

Researchers studying the wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship on the Alabama coast have made a surprising discovery.

Antonio Álvarez lost his home and two business.

Hundreds of people were evacuated during the night on the Spanish island of La Palma as a river of molten rock creeps deeper into a coastal town during a protracted volcanic eruption.

The International Organization for Migration says migrant deaths along the Atlantic route from West Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands reached a record high last month with 379 lives lost at sea.

Heavy rains are pelting the northern Caribbean as Tropical Storm Fred has formed just south of Puerto Rico following a quiet month of no named storms in the region.

U.S. government forecasters say they expect the Atlantic hurricane season to be busier than they first thought.

A new push to protect the final remaining wild Atlantic salmon in the U.S. is unlikely to land the fish on a key state endangered list.

We thought we’d ask: What storm-related advice do you wish you had received sooner?

Elsa has strengthened into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season and it's blowing off roofs, snapping trees and destroying crops in the eastern Caribbean, where officials closed schools, businesses and airports under the threat of flash flooding and landslides.

Here is the Metro Detroit weather forecast update for July 1, 2021 afternoon and evening.

The deal the United States and the European Union reached Tuesday to end their long-running rift over subsidies to Boeing and Airbus will suspend billions in punitive tariffs.

Thousands of NATO troops, several warships and dozens of aircraft are taking part in military exercises stretching across the Atlantic and into the Black Sea region as tensions with Russia simmer.

A new world weather agency forecast says it'll likely be so hot in the next five years that there's a 40% chance the globe will push past the temperature limit set by the Paris climate agreement.

Forecasters expect yet another busy Atlantic hurricane season this year, but they say it won't be as crazy as 2020.

The PGA Championship gets underway at the Ocean Course, stretched to 7,800-plus yards as a defense against a new generation of power-hitters.

The top U.S. general for Africa says a growing military threat from China may well come from America’s east, as Beijing looks to establish a large navy port capable of hosting submarines or aircraft carriers on the Atlantic coast of Africa.

The anticipated deep upper level low pressure area did exactly what it was expected to do, and currently sits right on the state line.  This is bringing in a feed of moisture all the way from the Atlantic, which will manifest itself in the form of showers throughout the day (while a steady rain is falling across most of Sanilac County early this morning, even that should transition to showers).  It won’t rain continuously today, but the potential is there all day long across southeast Michigan.  And by the way, since that upper low is south of most of us, the rain will be coming in from the east!

(NOAA via AP)With named storms coming earlier and more often in warmer waters, the Atlantic hurricane season is going through some changes with meteorologists ditching the Greek alphabet during busy years. The Greek alphabet had only been used twice in 2005 and nine times last year in a record-shattering hurricane season. AdMeanwhile, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration is recalculating just what constitutes an average hurricane season. STARTING EARLIERMIT hurricane researcher Kerry Emanuel said “this whole idea of hurricane season should be revisited." So a warming world means the new normal is busy hurricane seasons just like the last 30 years.

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021 file photo, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a media conference in Brussels. After U.S. President Joe Biden and EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen spoke, both sides decided to suspend tariffs used in the longstanding Airbus-Boeing dispute for the next four months. Von der Leyen called it “a very positive signal for our economic cooperation in the years to come.”Ad"This is excellent news for businesses and industries on both sides of the Atlantic,” she said. In the aircraft dispute, the U.S. was allowed to impose tariffs on $7.5 billion of EU exports to the U.S and as a result of the deal, EU tariffs will be suspended on $4 billion of U.S. exports. The move came only a few weeks after international arbitrators gave the EU the green light for such punitive action.