LA had planned to take substantially less from the iconic Eastern Sierra lake this winter. The decision is a blow to conservationists who have been trying to restore the lake for decades.
For decades, California's byzantine insurance regulations effectively forced insurers to subsidize people living in wildfire-prone areas. With the recent devastating wildfires in Los Angeles exposing ...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking steps to list monarch butterflies as threatened species and designate seven ...
Energy demands from big tech, including for AI, has elected officials giving an old power source a second look.
The devastating Los Angeles fires have been a grim reminder of America’s homeowners insurance crisis as climate change intensifies potential property damage and insurers scramble to price rising risk.
You soon could be paying even more for gas at the pump. That’s because of a cynical attempt to use the wildfires tragedy to attack California’s oil companies. Sponsored by state Sen. Scott Weiner, ...
Worldwide warming temperatures are hammering roads that were built for a different climate, ballooning repair budgets and sometimes cutting off communities from goods and services.
Climate change is an intensifier — a force that amplifies and worsens existing conditions. It increases the probability that extreme conditions will compound and become unprecedented.
That is a terrible idea, full stop. Lawmakers shouldn’t use the fires as an excuse to slow down on clean energy — not when scientists say humanity must slash emissions much faster to keep the climate ...
For more than a century, conservation policy has focused on economic development and wisely using natural resources.
Hours after being sworn in as the new Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy took aim at the main way the federal government regulates miles per gallon for cars and pickup trucks.
A variety of new technologies aim to improve wildfire detection and help map the spread of blazes Embers from the Eaton Fire ...