New plan would last 20 years, reshaping California’s landscape
For decades, Oregon’s timber industry has promoted the idea that private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires. The problem? Science doesn’t support that.
L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground. No one could see it – until now.
Canada’s oil patch has nearly 100,000 suspended wells, neither active nor capped, and they’re a worrying source of planet-warming methane.
Wildfires rage in the West. Hurricanes batter the East. Droughts and floods wreak damage throughout the nation. Life has become increasingly untenable in the hardest-hit areas, but if the people there move, where will everyone go?
Experts say the chronic impact of smoke from longer-lasting, more frequent wildfires could have serious health impacts.
According to new data from the Rhodium Group analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures and changing rainfall will drive agriculture and temperate climates northward, while sea level rise will consume coastlines and dangerous levels of humidity will swamp the Mississippi River valley.
Like many of the virus’s hardest hit victims, the United States went into the COVID-19 pandemic wracked by preexisting conditions. A fraying public health infrastructure, inadequate medical supplies, an employer-based health insurance system perversely unsuited to the moment–these and other afflictions are surely contributing to the death toll. But in addressing the causes and consequences of this pandemic–and its cruelly uneven impact–the elephant in the room is extreme income inequality.
At least 500,000 people in Oregon—or 12% of the state’s population—have been told to evacuate in response to record wildfires raging across the state and the West Coast, the Oregon Office of Emergency Management said Thursday.
47 whales have been found dead along the South East coast of Mauritius, including pregnant females and juveniles. The numbers continue to rise each day, around the crash site and sinking of the forward section of the Wakashio.
“They used to frolic next to my boat,” said fisherman Yannick Fine. “Now they are dead."
Government says it will carry out autopsies on all 40 animals and investigate spill fully
Keeping forests standing is one of the most effective and important ways to keep the world below dangerous levels of warming.
While more than 1 million acres of California has been scorched, one major fire hasn’t made headlines.
This is a story about frustration, about watching the West burn when you fully understand why it’s burning — and understand why it did not need to be this bad.
By the 2070s, global warming will increase extreme rainfall and reduce snowfall in the Sierra Nevada, delivering a double whammy that will likely overwhelm California's reservoirs and heighten the risk of flooding in much of the state, according to a new study by UCLA climate scientists.
The worst apparent damage so far in the wake of Hurricane Laura, which roared ashore as a category 4 storm with 150 mph winds.
The first leases to drill for oil and gas in the area could be sold by the end of 2020, Interior Department Secretary David Bernhardt said as his agency formally announced its leasing program.
The Trump administration finalized its plan to open up part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas development, a move that overturns six decades of protections for the largest remaining stretch of wilderness in the United States.
The findings indicate that honey can provide important evidence of environmental pollution, scientists say
Logitech will start labeling all its products with a nutrition label for CO2.
From New York to Los Angeles, Minneapolis to the Gulf Coast, people of color suffer disproportionately from pollution, callous government and climate change.
Warfare may be a rousing way to speechify, but it's perilous when used to describe disasters from hurricanes to viral outbreaks.
Orphaned apes in the rainforest of Indonesian Borneo are taught all the skills they need in preparation for their eventual return to the wild.
As people around the world stay home, air pollution is down and urban wildlife sightings are up.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared a state of emergency after a giant diesel fuel spill in a remote Arctic region 1,800 miles from Moscow.
Lockdowns lead to air pollution drops in major cities.
The Trump administration has lifted a temporary freeze on billions of dollars of grants from the Environmental Protection Agency, saying the programs will continue as planned.
