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Potentially millions of people in the U.S. will be displaced as the climate crisis makes certain regions increasingly uninhabitable, prompting new migrations that will reshape the country, a new …

The smoke from the wildfires devastating the West Coast of the U.S. has reached as far away as Europe, officials said Wednesday.

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A media watchdog analysis found that just 15% of broadcast news segments over a September weekend made the connection to climate breakdown. Most news coverage of the wildfires raging in California,…

The climate crisis is a factor, but so are efforts to fight fires - which have had the opposite effect. We call them wildfires, but that might not be the right word any more. In recent days, at…

Home values, state tourism and local governments could be damaged, causing defaults and market disruptions. The devastating wildfires now sweeping across the western US are among the sparks from…

We’ve never backed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history—until now Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in its 175-year history. This year we are compelled to…

What is happening now is astonishingly worse than any previous fire season. We are in a new kind of era.

The California governor, Gavin Newsom, said ‘this is not a world that anyone should be experiencing’ as he surveyed charred mountain terrain devastated by wildfires. ‘If you do not believe in science…

U.S. President Donald Trump has undone many major pieces of climate policy during his term,walking out on the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global warming and eliminating numerous Obama-era…

When I call Chef Q. Ibraheem to discuss urban farming in her own cooking career, she's in the middle of placing an order for microgreens from a small farm in Lake Forest, a ritzy suburb just north of…

This summer, we’ve seen developments in non-lithium-ion battery chemistries — including a forecast where lithium-iron-phosphate becomes the predominant chemistry and millions in funding for the…

President Trump told a crowd in Jupiter, Florida Tuesday that he is an environmental president, claiming that "it's true: number one since Teddy Roosevelt. Who would have thought Trump is the great…

The traditional end of summer weekend will feel more like mid-July in the West. The National Weather Service is not mincing words about what's in store for Southern California this weekend as it…

Guardian US reporter Emily Holden looks at the Trump administration’s impact on the environment, and the consequences if he wins another term.

"We have not reached the peak. In fact, no one knows where the peak is,” one expert said. Across large parts of California, daylight never arrived on Sept. 9. Caught under a vast sheet of smoke…

Just hours before Hurricane Laura made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 storm with wind speed surpassing that of Katrina, Vice President Mike Pence delivered a Republican National Convention…

A diverse coalition of nearly 150 progressive advocacy groups is demanding that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden ban fossil fuel executives and lobbyists from his 2020 campaign and commit to…

Especially given the climate-fueled wildfires ravaging the region, conservationists sounded alarm Thursday in response to a Trump administration proposal for an oil and gas lease sale in California,…

XR plans protests next week as activists call on MPs to back a climate emergency bill. Extinction Rebellion plan to block streets in London, Manchester and Cardiff next week as they call on MPs to…