A confluence of factors is making wildfires worse. Among them: increasingly dramatic swings between wet and dry conditions in ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic lawmakers are sure to lecture us again this session about the need to step up our efforts to ...

In concept, the public supports battery-powered cars, windmills, and solar farms to shrink California's carbon footprint. But ...

Some biologists speculate that animals will get smaller with global warming to reduce heat stress. While this may be true of warm-blooded animals, what about exotherms like insects? Thanks to a ...

The recent Los Angeles wildfires are only the latest reminder that banks need to steel themselves against climate change both ...

As insect populations decrease worldwide in what some have called an "insect apocalypse," biologists are desperate to ...

California lawmakers propose legislation that could allow vicims of the devastating Southern California wildfires to sue oil and gas companies.

Home, auto and health insurance rates are on the rise. Here's what insurance commissioner Patty Kuderer says her office can ...

Below Mount Jefferson and McKenzie Pass is a massive storehouse of water three times the size of Lake Mead, say Oregon researchers.

In the first serious fallout from President Donald Trump’s early actions against offshore wind power, oil and gas giant Shell ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an order to 'maximize the capture and storage' of water during storms. Environmentalists say it's ...

A 525-pound black bear caused quite a stir in Altadena after it was found in the crawl space under a home that had been ...