Climate

LAHORE, Pakistan —  Worsening air pollution sickened an estimated 1.8 million people in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province in the past month, health officials said Tuesday, as schools across the province were …

As Yogi Berra said, “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” Yes, Donald Trump will be president. And yes, the same types of people who populated his first administration — …

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday said he plans to nominate former Rep. Lee Zeldin, Republican from New York, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a federal department crucial to California’s …

MELBOURNE —  An emperor penguin found malnourished far from its Antarctic home on the Australian south coast is being cared for by a wildlife expert, a government department said Monday. The …

BAKU, Azerbaijan —  No matter what kind of U-turn President-elect Donald Trump will make on climate change, America’s clean energy economy won’t reverse into the dirty past, a combative but “bitterly …

For nearly 40 years, a controversial California law has required companies to place warning labels on their products alerting consumers to the potential health threats posed by chemicals, or else …

POMPTON LAKES, N.J. —  A New York parks employee died battling one of a number of wildfires in New Jersey and New York amid dry conditions that have prompted air quality …

As a candidate, President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly professed his love of clean air and water, but he also dismissed climate change as a hoax, railed against zero emission electric vehicles …

California air quality regulators late Friday approved tougher rules to encourage use of lower-carbon fuels, overriding objections that the action would lead to higher gasoline prices for motorists. On an …

BARCELONA, Spain —  A Spanish research vessel that investigates marine ecosystems has been abruptly diverted from its usual task to take on a new job: Helping in the increasingly desperate search …