Climate

GARDI SUGDUB, Panama —  On a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast, about 300 families are packing their belongings in preparation for a dramatic change. Generations of Gunas who have grown …

SALEM, Ore. —  Oregon authorities have closed the state’s entire coastline to mussel harvesting due to an “unprecedented” outbreak of shellfish poisoning that has sickened at least 20 people. They’ve also …

City leaders in Los Angeles have announced plans to take a limited amount of water from creeks that feed Mono Lake this year, a step that environmentalists say will help …

As climate change makes disasters such as cyclones, floods and droughts more intense, more frequent and striking more places, fewer people are dying from those catastrophes globally because of better …

Irene Yazzie can’t think of anyone who lives within 10 miles of her farm in the Navajo Nation who has drinking water flowing into their homes, hers included. In the …

While Peggy McClintick and wife Sally Tuchman slept, an unexpected visitor prowled in their Agoura Hills yard. McClintick checked her phone around 3:30 a.m. last Thursday to find a notification …

MONTPELIER, Vt. —  Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state …

PATNA, India —  A blistering heat wave has killed at least 14 people, including 10 election officials, in eastern India with temperatures soaring up to 122 degrees in parts of the …

BORON, Calif. —  A renewable energy company will soon begin clearing thousands of protected Joshua trees just outside this desert town, including many thought to be a century old, to make …

Some epidemiologists, food safety experts and veterinarians worry that pets could provide a potential springboard for H5N1 bird flu to evolve into a human threat. They are warning pet owners …