Climate

HONOLULU — Crews this week began evaluating damage from a surprise downpour that sent floodwaters raging through a neighborhood near downtown Honolulu — the latest bout in a series of storms and …

Consumers in Germany and the U.K. are growing more curious about rooftop solar and electric vehicles as they seek to shield themselves from surging energy prices resulting from the Iran …

The Trump administration will pay $1 billion to a French company to walk away from two U.S. offshore wind leases as the administration ramps up its campaign against offshore wind …

New South Wales, Australia’s second-biggest coal-producing state, will ban new mine applications for the fossil fuel and impose rules to reduce methane emissions from existing projects. The state government will …

HONOLULU — More than 2,000 people remained without power Sunday afternoon after Hawaii suffered its worst flooding in more than 20 years when heavy rains fell across the islands. The rain accumulated …

Firefighters rescued a teenage girl Friday from the Wendy Trail in Newbury Park after she suffered a reported rattlesnake bite. The incident marks the latest in a growing string of …

Residents were supposed to get a respite from the ankle-nipping mosquitoes that fueled a recent surge in dengue fever in Los Angeles County. Typically, the invasive mosquitoes — called Aedes …

Researchers investigating the long-term effects of the 2025 firestorms on L.A.’s beaches have found that rarest of things: good news. In the year following the Palisades and Eaton fires, levels …

ARVIN, Calif. — In the southern San Joaquin Valley, where roads cut through thousands of acres of orange groves, grapevines and carrot fields, a canal reaches a linchpin that keeps the farming …

A record-breaking heat wave is scalding California, with major consequences for the state’s most important reservoir: its snowpack. Providing about a third of the state’s water supply, the Sierra Nevada …