At a Glance The proposal would roll back which waters are protected under the Clean Water Act.President Trump campaigned on a promise to remove the Obama-era rules. Environmentalists say the changes could endanger the country's drinking water. The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday unveiled a plan to withdraw federal protections for thousands of waterways and wetlands. The plan would fulfillone of President Donald Trump's central campaign promises to roll back restrictions put on farming and other projects near streams and...

At a Glance The quake Wednesday was centered between Chattanooga and Knoxville.The tremor was felt in the Atlanta metro area, as well as parts of the Tennessee Valley. An early-morning earthquake in East Tennesseewas widely felt across the Southeast on Wednesday. The magnitude 4.4 quake struck around 4:14 a.m. EST, centered about 7 miles north-northeast of Decatur, Tennessee, in Meigs County, about 55 miles west-southwest of Knoxville. It was followed about 12 minutes later by a magnitude 3.3 aftershock. According...

The webpage of the University of Wisconsin's tropical analysis page. (UW-CIMSS/SSEC) We all have our favorite websites either for getting work done, reading news, or enjoying a hobby. You may wonder what the go-to weather websites are for our meteorologists. Meteorologists and riffed about their favorites in a mid-December 2018 episode of . Here isa summary of some of those sites. Click on the bolded text of each bullet point to check out each website. Ari's Top Picks : A...

President Donald Trump attends a ceremony to sign an executive order establishing the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council on Dec. 12, 2018. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) At a Glance NOAA's current chief Administrator announced that he has never briefed President Donald Trump on climate change.A former NOAA chief said she met with President Barack Obama every few months to discuss the topic. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's current chief Administrator Timothy Gallaudet announced in a press conference this week that...

At a Glance Kilauea's lava-spewing eruption this year was its largest in 200 years, scientists say.The volcano's lava paved over the remains of homes, filled in an entire bay and redesigned the coastline of the Big Island. Hawaii's Kilauea volcano was one of the biggest and most compelling stories of the summer as the volcano spewedlava flowspaved over miles, devoured an entire bay and redesigned the coastline of the Big Island. Now, months sincethe last time the volcano produced a...

At a Glance In March, scientists found a supercolony of penguins that went undetected for 2,800 years.Researchers were able to spot the population with help of an algorithm developed by a colleague at NASA.The team was then able to survey the colony and get a better idea of the population at its peak. Earlier this year, scientists found a supercolony of 1.5 million Adélie penguins living on Antarctica's Danger Islands that had gone undetected for nearly 2,800 years. With the...

At a Glance State water regulators vote 4-1 to reallocate water to help fish.The vote came even as Gov. Brown and water agencies reached a deal.Some water suppliers are already threatening lawsuits over the plan. California's water regulators have approved a plan that will cut water supplies to dozens of communities, from the Central Valley to San Francisco. The vote Wednesday by the State Water Resources Control Board will reallocate water from the San Joaquin River and its tributaries from...

At a Glance Numerous crashes led state officials to close Texas Route 70.The mayor of Tuscola and his wife were killed in a wreck on slick roads. Heavy snow in West Texas led to numerous crashes Thursday, prompting officials to close several major roadways. Tuscola , 82, and his 80-year-old wife, Von Dean Rose Elkins, were killed Thursday afternoon in a three-vehicle wreck on a slick Taylor County road, KTAB-TV reported. The incident occurred on Highway 83 at about 12:45...

Low temperatures on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018. At a Glance On Thursday morning, the temperature on Mount Washington was warmer than the rest of New Hampshire.This was due to a temperature inversion that developed in the region. It might sound strange, but it happened Thursday morning: the temperature on was warmer than the rest of New Hampshire and much of northern New England. In northern New Hampshire, including towns like Berlin and Whitefield, temperatures dropped below zero Thursday morning. Readings...

An endangered female orca leaps from the water while breaching in Puget Sound on Jan. 18, 2014. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is proposing $1.1 billion in spending and a partial whale-watching ban to help support the recovery of Puget Sound's critically endangered orcas. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) At a Glance In September, only 74 southern resident killer whales remained.A big part of the governor's plan is restoring the population of chinook salmon, the orcas' main food.Other ideas include a ban on...

At a Glance The gem-quality stone was pulled from a mine in Canada's Northwest Territories.The mining company's CEO says it's a "miracle" the stone wasn't crushed in the mining process.The previous largest diamond found in North America was found at the same mine in 2015. A 552-carat yellow diamond discovered at a Canadian mine is said to be the largest gem-quality stone ever found in North America. The stone, the size of a chicken egg, was found at the Diavik...

A bus sits on a tow truck after an accident at the highway A3 near Zurich, Switzerland, on Sunday, December 16, 2018. According to police, one woman died in the accident, 44 people were injured. (Walter Bieri/Keystone via AP) At a Glance One crash in southern Serbia killed three people and injured 32 others. One person was killed and 44 hurt in a crash near Zurich, Switzerland. Snowy weather in Europe is being blamed for separate bus crashes that have...