Climate

Global investment in the energy transition grew by 8% to a record $2.3 trillion last year, according to BloombergNEF, defying fears that the shifting political landscape and economic uncertainty would …

While a groundhog in Pennsylvania has predicted six more weeks of winter and cold-stunned iguanas fall from trees in Florida, Southern California is working up a sweat. A midwinter heat …

JACUMBA WILDERNESS, Calif. — On a dirt road in Imperial County leading toward the Mexico border, the tracks of rare wild sheep press into dusty tire tracks, amid jumbled boulders and spindly …

The New Orleans City Council passed a yearlong ban on data centers in the city and began an effort to clarify zoning regulations for new data center projects this week. …

The question of how to protect fish and the ecological health of rivers that feed California’s largest estuary is generating heated debate in a series of hearings in Sacramento, as …

The rolling grasslands and rocky beaches of Vandenberg Space Force Base, home to more than a dozen at-risk species, easily could pass for a peaceful nature preserve — but that’s …

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — As cold weather continues to slam the South, the stories of how people and animals are getting by continue to filter in. One Kentucky family battling extreme cold temperatures …

When the Eaton fire raged through neighborhoods in Altadena, the flames leveled three-quarters of the homes served by the tiny Las Flores Water Co. It also destroyed the roofs of …

A federal judge on Friday ruled that the U.S. Department of Energy violated federal law when it formed a secretive group of researchers to produce a report downplaying the effects …

An extraordinarily warm and mostly sunny January has left the snowpack across California’s Sierra Nevada far smaller than usual — 59% of average for this time of year, state water …