Doing Business in California Costs One Blackout a Week October 28, 2019 By Mark Chediak It was only expected to happen a couple times a year — and just as a last resort. That’s what...
Fire-Ravaged Forests Get Help from Pine Cone Collectors October 28, 2019 By Susan Montoya Bryan ALONG THE BURNT MESA TRAIL, N.M. — With snow ready to fall, the scramble was on to collect as many...
Fire Suppression, Drought Increasing Mortality Among Trees May 31, 2019 An Oregon State University forester says dry winters and long periods of drought, combined with fire suppression, are affecting the...
Cities are Sucking our Countryside Dry, Scientists Say April 11, 2019 By Umberto Bacchi TBILISI — Expanding cities are sucking up ever more water, exacerbating the effect of climate change and threatening to create...
Change in Location of Ocean Mixing That Drives Climate Found February 4, 2019 By SETH BORENSTEIN One of the key drivers of the world’s climate is an area in the North Atlantic Ocean where warmer and...
Scientists Say Wind, Drought Worsen Fires, Not Bad Management November 14, 2018 By SETH BORENSTEIN Both nature and humans share blame for California’s devastating wildfires, but forest management did not play a major role, despite...
Southwestern US Could See Drought Relief From El Nino October 29, 2018 By TIM TALLEY Climatologists said Wednesday that conditions are right for an El Nino weather pattern to develop that could bring wetter-than-normal conditions...
California Enters Peak Fire Season With Delaware-Sized Burn Scar October 8, 2018 By Brian K. Sullivan and Mark Chediak California is poised to set an annual record it never wanted to break: the amount of earth scorched by wildfires....
Wildfires Have Burned 3 Times More of California to Date Than in 2017 August 17, 2018 By Brian K. Sullivan California’s wildfires are now burning through land at a pace more than three times faster than last year’s blazes. About...
California Considers How Bad 2018 Wildfire Season Could Be July 16, 2018 By Brian K. Sullivan and Mark Chediak As blame for California’s wildfires rises over Sacramento like smoke from last year’s blazes, the state is being forced to...