While “smoke taint” from last month’s hazy skies isn’t an immediate threat, it comes on the heels of a growing season already fraught with climate extremes.
As climate change primes the Pacific Northwest to burn, hundreds in Washington state's second-biggest city lose their homes.
Panamint Capital broke ground on a $1.7 billion solar and storage project at the Calvert coal mine. The mine and an adjacent ...
A fragile food system, uneven public health messaging, and global warming are all working to supercharge the parasite’s ...
Smoky summers are becoming the new normal across the American West, forcing a generation of children to grow up indoors.
A pioneering California law meant to sharply limit use of the familiar “chasing arrows” recycling symbol has been blocked by a federal judge who said it probably violates the First Amendment. In a ...
As tech companies have built hundreds of hyperscale data centers to power the artificial intelligence boom, they have triggered conflicting predictions over how these facilities will affect the nation ...
Cheap, abundant Chinese solar panels have become essential to decarbonizing the global energy system. Without them, the world’s clean energy transition would have arguably been slower and more ...
The European Union’s cap-and-trade system has long been considered the gold standard for market-based emissions-reduction policies, and it’s influenced similar efforts from California to South Korea.
Two days before the sweltering July Fourth weekend, Martina Meijer, a New York City elementary teacher who occasionally substitutes over the summer, covered a class. The city’s summer school program ...
High temperatures can substantially reduce the rice yield,” said Atul Jain, a professor of climate, meteorology, and atmospheric sciences at the University of Illinois. “Fa ...