4 questions about climate change and the California fires.
The deadly fires that swept through California's wine country made one of the state's most destructive fire seasons on record even worse. As global...
Craft: EPA administrator should see Houston's post-Harvey pollution firsthand.
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No more doubt: Climate change hitting California.
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President Trump might want to play ostrich about climate change and place his head in the sand near his Mar-a-Lago resort in...
‘Shrinking, shrinking, shrinking’: Puerto Rico faces a demographic disaster.
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Long before the winds of Hurricane Maria reached Puerto Rico, another disaster had been wrenching and scattering the lives of island residents.
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Will Northern California soon have Southern California's climate?
The deadliest and most destructive spate of fires in California’s modern history continues to burn. The string of massive fires in the Napa and...
America’s climate refugees have been abandoned by Trump.
President Donald Trump visits Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria.Evan Vucci/APAs hurricane after hurricane ravages Puerto Rico and the Gulf Coast, the Trump...
As fires move on, wine country wonders whether immigrants will, too.
As Fires Move On, Wine Country Wonders Whether Immigrants Will, TooBy MIRIAM JORDANOctober 17, 2017Cameron Mauritson, who supplies 60 wineries in Sonoma County, Calif., overseeing the...
How California’s North Nay fires became the state’s deadliest.
A week after more than a dozen devastating wildfires erupted across Northern California, the first hopeful news began to emerge that firefighters were getting...
Satellite shows how forest CO2 emissions can skyrocket.
During the last El Niño, global average temperatures spiked to more than 1 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels for the first time on record,...
Still in drought, California town seeks new answers to water riddle.
For the vast majority of California, the record-breaking, five-year drought is over, but some cities like Ojai in Ventura County are not so lucky....
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