Wildfire fighting is becoming a year-round effort in Canada, with blazes smouldering through the winter, often underground, waiting to surge to fiery new life in the spring. In late February, more ...

By shading streets and buildings, trees help keep those surfaces from getting so warm. They also help cool the air around them by taking water out of the ground and releasing it through their leaves ...

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Judge Laura Safer Espinoza helps run the Fair Food Program, a partnership between workers, growers, and more than a dozen large food buyers. The program protects thousands of workers on participating ...

The northeastern town of Barnsdall, Oklahoma (pop. 1000) suffered its second tornado strike of the year late Monday, May 6.

Over its lifetime, an electric vehicle produces much less climate-warming pollution than a similar gas-powered car.

Mariana Ausencio reporting in the field. (Image credit: Peter Shaw). Mariana Atencio was only 14 when President Hugo Chávez came to power in Venezuela. Her family was distraught as they watched his ...

Low-intensity fires help clear out dead wood and vegetation, reducing the fuel available when a wildfire comes along.

A dangerous outbreak of severe thunderstorms is expected this afternoon into tonight across parts of central/eastern KS and ...

Your editors talk armadillos, the unexpected joy of tax credits, and how they’re preparing for the extreme weather season ahead.

He says induction cooktops are also easy to clean. They’re better for air quality — because you’re not burning gas. And they help the climate because they’re efficient and can be powered by clean ...

“Once upon a time, the only thing we could say about a particular weather event was that it was ‘consistent with climate change,’” Yale Climate Connections Meteorologist Bob Henson said to kick off a ...