For those forced to flee, the Dixie Fire brought into focus a daunting question: What do you bring when you may never come home?
A study by researchers at Harvard University's school of public health attributed excess covid cases and deaths to counties in the West that suffered high levels of wildfire smoke last year.
Crustaceans in England are getting a little too excited by an additive released by underwater waste.
To cut red tape, including on clean energy projects, the Senate’s bipartisan deal would rein in public participation on many decisions on roads, transmission lines, pipelines, logging and mining. That has some advocates for environmental justice worried.
Unable to go home and struggling to move forward, Greenville evacuees seek shelter and face the loss of their community.
Meteorologist Matthew Cappucci explains how, when and where tornadoes form, and how climate change could be affecting these devastating weather events.
The legislation supporting renewable energy, electric cars, power lines and public transit comes as U.N. climate scientists warn the world is running out of time.
At nearly 4,000 pages, the report from the IPCC is massive. These five lines highlight their findings.
President Biden is unwinding Donald Trump’s environmental legacy, while forging his own. The Washington Post is chronicling every step.
A U.N. science group says humans have caused “unprecedented” global warming and that only humans can prevent it from worsening.
A landmark United Nations report finds that humans have pushed the climate into ‘unprecedented’ territory. Plus, what we can learn from the Tokyo Olympics with the Winter Games in Beijing just around the corner.
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Earth is on a dangerous trajectory, the latest U.N. climate report says, but humanity still has time to change course.
Unusually high temperatures and drought in the Central Asian nation have left the animals without food or water.
Wildfires are burning across the American West, with smoke reaching across much of the United States. In one small Washington town, residents are used to the haze.
Hybrid sales have grown faster than electric-vehicle sales for two years, according to data. Many think that’s a step in the right direction for the Biden administration’s ambitious auto goals.
Concerns have been raised that the shutdown could lead to rolling blackouts statewide later this summer, though California officials said a sudden disruption is unlikely.
The state’s largest wildfire swelled to more than 361,000 acres as of Thursday evening.
Half of new car sales should be pure electric or plug-in hybrid by 2030, President Biden to announce in an executive order Thursday.
"This is a system we don't want to mess with," one scientist said.
The abandoned pipelines are blocking access to the sand that Louisiana and other gulf states need to rebuild their coastlines in the face of rising seas.
