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ALTADENA, Calif.—Sylvie Andrews walks among the brilliant white poppies, purple California grapes and olive-green thorns surrounding her yard’s blackened pizza oven—one of the only things that survived last year’s devastating Eaton Fire. But her eyes scan the block beyond, ever-a
EL PASO—Federal Judge Kathleen Cardone granted a preliminary injunction Friday to halt construction on the border wall in Texas’ expansive Big Bend sector, including the national and state parks. Cardone read a brief order from the bench after hearing more than four hours of test
Gieß den Kiez app shows trees in critical need of watering and can be adopted by other heat-stressed cities around the worldAmanda Gläser-Bligh sometimes attracts puzzled looks when she goes to water the eight-year-old street tree she has adopted outside her door in Charlottenbur
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollutionSwitzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country whose big white glaciers have
Minimum temperatures have shot up, presenting an overlooked threat to people, livestock, and crops.
Half a century of corporate influence set the stage for Trump's attacks, a new study argues.
Scientists are racing to understand how fires behave as hotter summers turn green landscapes into tinderboxesFrom the scorched heathlands of the New Forest to the smouldering valleys of south Wales and burned-out homes in Stourbridge, an extraordinary summer of wildfires has left
A sprawling reservoir under construction south of Lake Okeechobee that Gov. Ron DeSantis has characterized as the “crown jewel” of Everglades restoration will not be enough to save Florida’s treasured and troubled river of grass, according to a new report. The report, prepared by
In the coming months, the world will get a glimpse of life on an even hotter planet.
The world, including the U.S., agreed that rising seas will not change national borders even as small islands disappear.
Heading into election season, leaders in Corpus Christi face a puzzling question: what to do with $235 million from the state of Texas for a seawater desalination plant that was never built. This month, officials in the Gulf Coast city declined to pursue the flagship water suppl
A $20 billion data center campus announced in July near Rincon, Georgia, is now facing its second lawsuit from Effingham County residents and environmental advocates. OpenAI, best known for creating ChatGPT, is planning a massive campus that would include about 4.4 million square
ALTADENA, Calif.—Sylvie Andrews walks among the brilliant white poppies, purple California grapes and olive-green thorns surrounding her yard’s blackened pizza oven—one of the only things that survived last year’s devastating Eaton Fire. But her eyes scan the block beyond, ever-a
There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair?The Independent Planning Commission’s published reasons for approving the largest coalmine in New South Wales history in the context of mounting death, disaster and d
Google is backing the buildout of a novel green-steel mill in Sweden as the tech giant grapples with rising greenhouse gas emissions from its AI expansion. On Thursday, the company said it is partnering with Stegra to help bring the Swedish firm’s flagship facility online. Unlik
Twenty years ago, a group of Northeastern states signed on to a plan to reduce the greenhouse gases spewing from power plants by making generators pay for the carbon they release. Since then, the region’s power sector emissions have dropped by half, and states have reaped more th
Hyundai is set to break ground in southern Louisiana this week on a nearly $6 billion steel mill , which may become the lowest-carbon facility of its kind in the U.S. On Friday, the Korean industrial giant will hold a ceremony at the project site, where the fields of a former su
The country’s biggest energy market has a problem: It can’t build enough power plants to keep up with electricity demand. For PJM Interconnection’s 67 million customers across 13 states, the consequences are ever-higher utility bills. For PJM itself, it’s unrelenting political p
Armed Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in southeast Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a double border wall, after protesters protected it for more than 70 days. Activists in Lochiel said at
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments from oil companies on Monday that could help decide the fate of more than two dozen lawsuits accusing the industry of deceiving the public about climate change. The claims seek potentially billions of dollars in damages to help pay the costs
How court will lean is unclear amid Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil’s attempt to stop lawsuits at state levelThe US supreme court began its new nine-month term hearing arguments on Monday in a major case in which big oil companies attempted to strike a fatal blow against lawsuits th
And in the Pacific, Super Typhoon Choi-wan is the planet's eighth Category 5 as another potential powerhouse, Koguma, begins organizing.
For well over a year, the twin problems of rising utility bills and soaring electric demand spurred by the AI boom have consumed the energy policy debate in Virginia, the data center capital of the world. Clean energy foes — mostly Republicans — say the state’s landmark zero-car
A researcher at a climate change think tank says the Conservative policy would be a ‘disaster for first time buyers’Yesterday, as a gimmick, the Tories were handing out “Bottler Burnham” bottles of water (“0% strength”) to make a point about Burnham supposedly cancelling plans fo
