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The Rolling Hills Estates City Council has declared a local state of emergency in the wake of Saturday’s landslide that sent multiple hillside houses on a slow-motion downward slide, collapsing …

Humanity has etched its way into Earth’s geology, atmosphere and biology with such strength and permanence that a special team of scientists figures we have shifted into a new geologic …

CHICAGO —  Natural disasters can be dramatic — barreling hurricanes, building-toppling tornadoes — but heat is more deadly. Chicago learned that the hard way in 1995. That July, a weeklong heat …

RIO DE JANEIRO —  After four years of rising destruction in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation dropped by 33.6% during the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term, according …

TAIPEI, Taiwan —  Cities across China opened their air-raid shelters to offer residents relief from the heat Friday as unusually high temperatures across parts of the country started claiming lives. Northern …

HONOLULU —  The town of Hauula packs hundreds of homes into a narrow strip of land sandwiched between verdant, towering cliffs of the Koolau mountain range and the Pacific. But the …

Californians sweltering under the first heat wave of the season — you’re not alone. Researchers this week announced that Monday might have been the hottest day recorded on Earth, a …

Cynthia Ruiz, the first Native American ever to serve on the Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners, got some bad news from City Hall recently. Ruiz said a …

As the first heat wave of summer plunges California into yet another wildfire season, some environmental groups are taking aim at a commercial fire retardant that most residents have grown …