Climate

A still from the CBS drama series 'Fire Country'

Arts

How Hollywood gets wildfires all wrong — much to the frustration of firefighters

4:29pm December 27, 2022

by Chloe Veltman

In a time of accelerated climate change, there's a big disconnect between the portrayal of fires on-screen and the reality of the brave people who fight them in real life.

Working-class Americans inhale private jet fumes

4:10pm December 26, 2022

by Caleigh Wells

Private jet flights increased during the pandemic, including at one airport in the Los Angeles area that caters to wealthy travelers. Now, working-class residents are inhaling the fumes.

Climate activists from the group Letzte Generation (Last Generation) hold up commuter traffic on a Monday morning in Berlin by supergluing themselves to the road. Police unstick their hands using cooking oil and a pastry brush while irate drivers look on, stuck for more than an hour.

World News

Climate activists are fuming as Germany turns to coal to replace Russian gas

5:00am December 26, 2022

by Esme Nicholson

Germany is firing up coal plants and importing liquefied natural gas to shore up energy supplies. Activists are carrying out increasingly disruptive protests, gluing themselves to roads and runways.

A polar bear walks along the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba, on Aug. 23, 2010. Polar bears in Canada's Western Hudson Bay — on the southern edge of the Arctic — are continuing to die in high numbers, a new government survey released Thursday found.

World News

Polar bears in a key region of Canada are in sharp decline, a new survey shows

3:48pm December 23, 2022

by The Associated Press

Polar bears in Western Hudson Bay — on the southern edge of the Arctic — are continuing to die in high numbers, a government survey has found. Females and bear cubs are having an especially hard time.

National

This is what's at risk from climate change in Alaska

5:06pm December 22, 2022

by Julie Depenbrock

Climate change is transforming the Arctic, and putting indigenous communities in Alaska at risk.

Queue Listen Now

Why the waters off the west coast of the Galapagos Islands are getting colder

5:05am December 20, 2022

While the majority of the world's oceans are warming, the waters off the west coast of the Galapagos Islands are getting colder — creating a refuge from climate change for birds and marine animals.

Tree health specialists scan forests, looking for fir trees that have turned red, which indicates that they are dead.

A record high number of dead trees are found as Oregon copes with an extreme drought

5:00am December 20, 2022

by Juliana Kim

Wildfires and a Western megadrought led to a historic die-off of evergreen trees in the state — nearly twice as bad as the previous worst year. Some researchers have dubbed it "firmageddon."

Two regional utilities, Alabama Power and Florida Power & Light, hired the consulting firm Matrix to help shape their fortunes. Matrix paid six news sites that attacked officials who challenged the companies.

National

In the Southeast, power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics

1:59pm December 19, 2022

Alabama Power and Florida Power & Light hired the consulting firm Matrix to help shape their fortunes. Matrix funded six sites that covered politics, filling a void left by the decline of local news.

The head table gets set to open the high level segment at the COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal on Dec. 15, 2022.

Environment

Negotiators at a U.N. biodiversity conference reach a historic deal to protect nature

6:56am December 19, 2022

by The Associated Press

The most significant part of the U.N. pact is a commitment to protect 30% of land and water considered important for biodiversity by 2030, up from 17% of terrestrial and 10% of marine areas.

National

New Mexico's wildfire victims are still struggling

7:56am December 18, 2022

by Alice Fordham

After prescribed burns went awry in New Mexico, wildfires destroyed hundreds of homes and endangered water supplies. Billions of dollars in federal aid haven't reached victims yet.