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Protected for decades by their water rights, grower are suffering for the first time during this record-breaking drought. Wildlife refuges are struggling, too.
Rising temperatures prompt World Meteorological Organization to add new category to its climate extreme archives.
New research shows that dry weather is coming on more quickly than before, with little advance warning.
The “renewable” industry creates major emissions, destroys forests, and causes health and safety issues in low-resource communities.
Summer is becoming unbearable. Phoenix holds solutions on how to cope.
A new report calls on rich countries to provide immediate relief.
The research leaves little doubt: California is facing massive groundwater contamination.
Beyond the environmental impacts, a clean energy transition can provide financial and health benefits too.
Environmental regulators are "trying to do the bare minimum by throwing something through Google Translate,” one advocate said.