Climate

There’s an industry that consumes even more power than many tech giants, and it has largely escaped the same scrutiny: suppliers of industrial gases. Nitrogen, oxygen, helium — everyday items …

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti’s government said Tuesday that the death toll from Hurricane Melissa rose to 43, with 13 others still missing. Crews were still trying to reach people in the country’s …

BOGOTA, Colombia — Brazilian police backed by Interpol have destroyed hundreds of dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River, in one of the biggest coordinated crackdowns yet on criminal …

A dramatic rebound in clean-tech stocks has investors in the green economy hoping they can finally turn the page on years of punishing underperformance. The timing is somewhat unexpected. Even …

Late last month, California fire officials made a courtesy call to Los Angeles. The state’s proposed Zone Zero regulations that would force homeowners to create an ember-resistant zone around their …

NEW YORK — The moon will look slightly bigger and brighter Wednesday night during the closest supermoon of the year. The moon’s orbit around the Earth isn’t a perfect circle, so it …

European Union Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra said the U.S. retreat on green commitments will damage the potential for global impact as well as the overall mood at the upcoming COP30 …

When a column of smoke rose above Pacific Palisades on January 7, a couple dozen residents of the Santa Monica Mountains, instead of evacuating, jumped into their own fire engines. …

In a plan that will reverberate more than 300 miles north at Mono Lake, Los Angeles city leaders have decided to nearly double the wastewater that will be transformed into …

A controversial plan to kill one owl species to save another cleared a major hurdle. The full Senate on Wednesday struck down a GOP effort to prevent the cull of …