The Nueces River Authority is working on a project that could expand the Corpus Christi region’s water supply, but the Texas governor has done little to address the agency’s financial problems, despite appointing every member of its board.
As regulations have reduced prenatal exposure to harmful emissions from vehicles and industry in recent years, smoke from climate-fueled wildfires is erasing air quality gains.
A new study calculates that human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood of the tinderbox weather conditions that sparked Canada’s massive summer wildfires.
A new study calculates that human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood of the tinderbox weather conditions that sparked Canada’s massive summer wildfires.
While “smoke taint” from last month’s hazy skies isn’t an immediate threat, grape growers say it comes on the heels of a growing season already fraught with climate extremes.
As Washington state reels from a devastating wildfire that destroyed hundreds of homes in Spokane last weekend, experts say the disaster has cast newfound uncertainty over a property insurance market.
A new AP-NORC poll finds that Americans are increasingly noticing the impact of extreme heat on their lives, and much of that shift is happening in the West and Midwest.
Britain's cereal harvest is on track to be the worst since comparable records began in 1984, as crops wither after one of the driest and hottest spring-summer periods on record.
With parts of the globe aflame in wildfires, deadly heat waves parking over cities, record hot oceans, and a strengthening super El Niño, it seems like we’re baking through the hottest year on record.
For 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has defined "harm" as not just injury to individuals but to the habitat on which they depend. By narrowing that definition, the Trump administration is leaving hundreds of species at risk of extinction.
The new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office says the widespread reductions have resulted in a loss of institutional knowledge and experienced personnel.
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot.
Firefighters in Washington state are bracing for dangerous fire weather to return to the Pacific Northwest this week and it could continue until the fall.
The prime minister should consider the potential outcomes of siding with his Bay Street buddies and oil industry bigwigs over climate-beleaguered Canadians.
Nate Rouette and his brother went shark fishing on Cape Cod and were shocked by what they reeled in — a tropical species of shark with a reputation for eating everything it can swallow.
