Climate

This is the Dec. 29, 2022, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get …

Could ordering a McChicken, as opposed to a Big Mac, help in the fight against climate change? To fend off the disastrous effects of global warming, many people have been …

Heat pumps are one of the most effective ways to shrink your home’s carbon footprint and your utility bills at a time of rising electricity and natural gas costs. The …

The deep freeze that blanketed most of the U.S. in the past few days killed dozens of people and temporarily plunged millions into darkness. Yet the country narrowly escaped an …

For the first time, more than half of California’s rural and unincorporated communities could soon be classified as “very high” fire hazard severity zones, according to a proposed map from …

Mike Thomson’s friends refuse to stay over at his house anymore. Thomson lives about 50 yards from a busy freeway that bisects California’s capital city, one that has been increasingly …

BUCKEYE, Ariz. —  Kathleen Ferris stared across a desert valley dotted with creosote bushes, wondering where the water will come from to supply tens of thousands of new homes. In the …

A World War II-era weapons bunker in Irvine has a new mission — sheltering preserved insect specimens When a collection of bugs floating in specimen bottles outgrew his laboratory, Robert …

SAN FRANCISCO —  After three delays, the commercial Dungeness crab season in California will finally open on New Year’s Eve, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Thursday. The start …

Scientists have discovered that the pace of groundwater depletion in California’s Central Valley has accelerated dramatically during the drought as heavy agricultural pumping has drawn down aquifer levels to new …