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SAN FRANCISCO — Facing down 600 wildfires in the past three days alone, emergency workers rushed to evacuate tens of thousands of people in Southern California on Thursday as a state utility said one of its major transmission lines broke near the source of the out-of-control Kincade blaze in Northern California.
read more$300 billion. That’s the money needed to stop the rise in greenhouse gases and buy up to 20 years of time to fix global warming, according to United Nations climate scientists.
read moreThe Supreme Court this week blocked an effort to halt the case.
read moreTHE WIDESPREAD ENVIRONMENTAL contaminants known as PFAS cause multiple health problems in people, according to Linda Birnbaum, who retired as director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program earlier this month.
read moreIn the past seven years, four major disasters have caused serious disruptions in the Northeast and Midwest United States. Hurricane Sandy slammed into New York City in 2012, inflicting nearly US$11 billion in damage to buildings.
read moreWe hosted our first-ever “Urban Litter Challenge” and here’s how the day went
read moreA bailout proposed by the nuclear industry would cost tax and ratepayers billions, while starving demand for wind and solar
read moreWith the case for impeaching President Donald Trump already overwhelming and getting stronger every day, Republican politicians and defenders of the president are stuck in a vexing bind about how to fight back against the breakneck pace of the Democrats’ inquiry.
read moreA Minnesota based think tank, Center of the American Experiment (CAE) releases a report last March greatly exaggerating the cost of roughly doubling current renewable energy use in Minnesota to 50 percent by 2030.
read moreIn sealed depositions, Mayflower residents describe illnesses, property damage and a smell that still haunts them. Some say they felt pressured to sign settlements.
read moreAntarctic ice sheets have been melting rapidly for hundreds of years, much longer than scientists previously thought, according to a study out Thursday.
read moreThis year’s August Amazon fires grabbed headlines around the world.
read moreThe southern India state of Kerala, having lost almost a million homes in two disastrous floods in 2018 and 2019, is trying to adapt to climate change by building homes for the poor that are flood-resistant.
read moreLast May, Attorney General William Barr assigned U.S. Attorney John Durham the task of investigating the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.
read moreIf humans created an emissions hall of shame, which pollutants would you nominate?
read moreBrazil is smoldering, still. The surge of fires that raged across the Amazon in July and August has now spread to the country’s biodiverse savanna lands in the Cerrado, where the number of fires in September was double what it was a year ago.
read moreAt the beginning of October, my kids’ preschool informed me that it might be closed the next day because of rolling blackouts — a radical new effort by our local power utility in Northern California to avoid sparking wildfires.
read moreFor many patients, the right food may be the best medicine.
read moreWhales absorb more carbon than rain forests and help produce half of the planet’s oxygen supply.
read moreThe Independent Particulate Matter Review Panel has released their consensus recommendations to the EPA administrator on the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter.
read moreCarbon offset programs are typically billed as an undo button for climate-harmful activities.
read moreDesalinated seawater is the lifeblood of Saudi Arabia, no more so than at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, an international research center that rose from the dry, empty desert a decade ago.
read more“If you don’t own an oil well, get one.”Well, maybe you can’t afford an oil well, but what if you could own something even bigger—an entire electric utility?
read moreIn at least two states this year, beef and dairy industries have successfully beat back government food initiatives linking livestock to global warming.
read moreLast month, millions of youth activists around the world took to the streets to fight for their right to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and not have to suffer the wrath of the climate crisis.
read moreRecord or near-record temperatures, combined with drought in many areas, are contributing to yet another record-setting summer for wildfires.
read morePresident Trump likes to say that people in his political orbit come straight out of central casting, “tough hombres” from far beyond the Capital Beltway ready to roil the swamp.
read moreAs illnesses like Valley fever emerge in new areas, health officials keep residents informed instead of in fear.
read moreMiami Beach passed a resolution declaring a climate emergency last week, thanks to young climate activists who rallied in front of City Hall in September as part of the global climate strike.
read moreLawmakers questioned why HUD kicked off a funding process for 17 states affected by disasters — but left out Puerto Rico.
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