Environment

The home builders dug up and destroyed 32 Joshua trees on the property that they own in San Bernardino County to make room for a house they want to build there.

A “heat dome” parked over the Pacific Northwest caused record-breaking temperatures and even disrupted the U.S. Olympic track and field trials.

An all-GOP House group aims to educate fellow Republicans on climate change and advance market-based policies to counter Democratic proposals.

NASA and the NOAA have compiled data showing an “unprecedented” amount of heat is being trapped in Earth’s atmosphere, doubling since 2005.

A dangerous heat wave continues to impact the western United States, placing much of the region in jeopardy of breaking more records.

The first day of summer is on Sunday, June 20. But what is the summer solstice, why is it the longest day of the year and how is it celebrated? Here are some facts about the significant day.

Footage filmed by Neil and Danae Serfas on June 15 showed the tornado whipping up a massive cloud of dust and dirt on farmland in D’Arcy, Saskatchewan.

Long-term exposure to poor air quality increased the risk of COVID-19 throughout the country last year, according to research announced Wednesday from a UCLA-led team.

A new United Nations report says the world needs to tackle the climate change and extinction crises together, not separately.

The Keystone XL Pipeline project has been terminated, the TC Energy Corporation announced on Wednesday.

As a result of the lower NOx emissions, by June 2020, global ozone levels had dropped to a level that policymakers thought would take at least 15 years to reach by conventional means, such as regulations.

Scientists say the annual peak of global heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air has reached another dangerous milestone: 50% higher than when the industrial age began.

Prince Harry and Meghan’s new baby girl, Lilibet “Lili” Diana, is now part of the couple’s wax figure display at Madame Tussauds in Sydney.

The voyage heralded the return of cruise ships to Venice but reignited an anti-cruise movement that opposes the passage of the enormous ships through the fragile lagoon.

The Food and Drug Administration has a colorful warning for people with a shellfish allergy: don’t eat cicadas. Turns out, the agency warns, that the noisy insects actually share a "family relation" to shrimp and lobsters.

The operator of the container ship MV X-Press Pearl says the experts were able to board the vessel and attach a tow line, but that “efforts to move the ship to deeper waters have failed.” It says the back of the ship is now touching the ocean bottom at a depth of 21 meters (70 feet).

The Biden administration is suspending oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as it reviews the environmental impacts of drilling in the remote region.

A new study has calculated that more than one-third of global heat deaths can directly be attributed to human-caused climate change.