Climate

A court has upheld a key decision by California’s water board calling for reductions in water diversions from the San Joaquin River and its tributaries to help revive struggling fish …

St. Helena, Calif. —  Highway 29 winds along the floor of the Napa Valley through Yountville and St. Helena and up into Calistoga, passing by vineyards that produce some of the …

The nation’s slow transition to electric vehicles got a boost Wednesday when the Biden administration announced it had finalized the strongest-ever pollution standards for cars and light trucks. The Environmental …

Stellantis NV, owner of the Jeep and Ram brands, has agreed to California’s strict rules to boost electric vehicles in a deal that could shield the state’s clean-car push from …

MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif.  —  The Kousch House stood in the Mojave Desert for nearly a century — first as the residence of a prominent homesteader, then as testament to …

Fossil-fuel burning trucks spew alarming amounts of greenhouse gases, dangerous nitrogen oxides, lung-clogging particulate matter and a toxic stew of other pollutants. Getting rid of them will be costly — …

While Amazon plastic packaging is labeled as recyclable, most of it ends up in landfills, a new report has found. (David Zalubowski / Associated Press) Although the plastic packaging delivered …

PINE MOUNTAIN CLUB, Calif. —  Led by a sense of smell 100 times keener than that of humans, the predators have crashed through windows, ripped tiles off roofs and torn solid …

A man trying to rescue a neighbor from a violent assault in a Westminster apartment complex was stabbed to death early Saturday morning, authorities said. Alvaro Martin-Perez, 48, was trying …

What if the looming calamities of climate change, plastic pollution, the energy crisis and our whole environmental doom-scroll are symptoms of just one malady and it’s something we actually can …