Climate

Every month, millions of low-income Californians struggle to pay their water and utility bills. A survey on COVID-19‘s financial effect on water systems and customers found that 12% of California …

Southern California is bracing this week for what could be the strongest Santa Ana winds of the year, raising concerns around fire dangers, according to experts. “Today is the calm …

Dozens of bungee jumpers take an arduous five-mile hike each weekend to launch themselves off the 120-foot Bridge to Nowhere deep in the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument. This is …

This is the Nov. 10, 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 …

ONGOING SERIES Conversations about food, the environment and our future. Douglas McMaster became one of the world’s leading authorities on closed-loop, zero-waste kitchens almost accidentally. “I’ve had a series of …

DAKAR, Senegal —  On a beach in Senegal with so much plastic trash that much of the sand is covered, one man is trying to raise awareness about the dangers of …

California is poised to reduce payments to homes and businesses that go solar for clean electricity they supply to the power grid — a landmark shift in how the state …

PROVIDENCE, R.I. —  Swimming in two plastic bins inside a brightly lit and sterile quarantine room at a Rhode Island zoo, 16 quarter-sized turtle hatchlings represent a growing worry for conservationist …

WILBUR-BY-THE-SEA, Fla. —  Heavy rain from the remnants of Hurricane Nicole covered the eastern United States from Georgia to the Canadian border Friday while hundreds of people on a hard-hit stretch …

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt —  The world’s burning of coal, oil and natural gas this year is putting 1% more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air this year than last year, in …