Climate

It’s time to test out those summer outfits because Mother Nature is turning up the heat in Southern California with possible triple-digit temperatures in some areas next week. After a …

Gray whales are dying in large numbers, again. At least 70 whales have perished since the start of the year in the shallow, protected lagoons of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula …

BISMARCK, N.D. — The Keystone oil pipeline was shut down Tuesday morning after it ruptured in North Dakota, with the spill confined to an agricultural field. The cause of the rupture and …

A bipartisan group of California lawmakers is calling on the Trump administration to preserve $1.2 billion in federal funds for a hydrogen energy project to help wean the state off …

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Days of unrelenting heavy rain and storms that killed at least 18 people worsened flooding as some rivers rose to near-record levels and inundated towns across an already saturated …

More than 50 years ago, a catastrophic oil spill along Santa Barbara’s coastline served to galvanize the modern environmental movement and also helped to usher in one of the state’s …

The battle over whether California should build a $20-billion water tunnel in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is escalating, with Gov. Gavin Newsom pushing to lay the groundwork for the …

BILLINGS, Mont. — The Trump administration acted to roll back environmental safeguards related to future logging projects in more than half of national forests under an emergency designation announced Friday that cites …

POINTE A LA HACHE, La. — Oil giant Chevron must pay $744.6 million to restore damage caused to southeast Louisiana’s coastal wetlands, a jury decided Friday after a landmark trial more than …

A beautiful menace is growing on the freshly charred slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains. The whimsically named poodle-dog bush thrives in the wake of fires, such as the more …