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Between ferocious heat that pushed California’s electrical grid to the brink and winter storms that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people, it has become increasingly clear we …

Another massive storm began rolling into California on Thursday, a system that’s expected to bring rainfall, winds and more snow to an already drenched and snowbound state. The inbound storm …

With back-to-back storms to hit California in the coming days, state officials are scrambling to make strategic releases from key reservoirs in hopes of preventing a repeat of the deadly …

Despite the conventional wisdom, not everybody drives all the time in Los Angeles. Those who don’t, it turns out, pay more of a price in terms of the air they …

One day after a historic blizzard warning for the San Bernardino County mountains expired, Riley Ramirez and Cole White began a 10-day backpacking trip on the Pacific Crest Trail through …

As soon as this month, air quality officials in the San Francisco Bay Area are expected to adopt the nation’s first rules phasing out new gas-fueled water heaters and furnaces …

California regulators have told local agencies in large portions of the San Joaquin Valley that their plans for combating overpumping of groundwater are inadequate, a step that clears the way …

A remarkably wet winter has resulted in some of the deepest snowpack California has ever recorded, providing considerable drought relief and a glimmer of hope for the state’s strained water …

EL MIRADOR, Guatemala —  The heat was unbearable and the trees seemed to reach endlessly skyward. Suddenly, from out of the vegetation, the Jaguar Paw pyramid appeared. Archaeologist Richard Hansen knelt …

This story originally published in Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. It’s been raining like crazy …