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Undersea cable would supply clean electricity from the Caucasus

The Palisades Fire could cause more than $10 billion in damages, further straining the state's fragile insurance market.

Interviews and analysis of court documents show how the world's most prestigious consulting firm quietly helps fuel the climate crisis

For many creatures, the modern landscape is a minefield rife with hazards that natural selection never saw coming.

The Iberian lynx is no longer classified as endangered, with one group calling it the "greatest recovery of a cat species ever achieved through conservation."

Wildfires have increased over the last few decades in dry forests, which cover 25.5 million ha (63 million acres) of the western U.S. But are high-severity fires that kill 70% or more of trees already burning at rates that exceed historical (preindustrial) rates?

The White House insisted Sunday that pro-Palestinian protests that have rocked US universities in recent weeks must remain peaceful, after police arrested around 275 people on four separate campuses over the weekend."We certainly respect the right of peaceful protests," National Security Council spo...

Women from around the world gathered in northwest Portugal this week to practice a traditional technique of deliberately burning land to prevent the kind of wildfires—intensified by climate change—that have killed hundreds across Europe.

But efforts to obstruct the anti-corruption activist-turned-president will continue.

California companies and governments avoid the Golden State's strict environmental regulations by shipping toxic waste to Mexico.

Climate change may be fueling fires, but housing demands are driving risk.

It might seem astounding that a wild animal could survive a limb amputation and still thrive in the wild but videos from social media and research show this may be more common than people realize. Many wild animals not only survive the health risks of amputation, but go on to learn how to adapt to their new bodies, whether by themselves or with the help of others in their family.

Scientists examined the assumption that wildfires are the primary factor driving the expansion of invasive annual grasses that are taking over shrubland and grassland in the U.S. Great Basin and found that annual grasses are highly competitive even in the absence of significant disturbances like fire.

Violence is written in their genes.

The wildfire that ripped through Lahaina on Aug 8., reducing what had once been the jewel of the historic Hawaiian kingdom to rubble, was decades in the...

The Hawaiian Islands do see wildfire from time to time, but the catastrophic Maui fires were spawned by a striking mix of factors, including climate change.

A trio of armed men were seen crossing the southern border into Texas on Saturday in what is believed to be the latest incident of suspected Mexican cartel members making their way onto US soil.

A weeklong wildfire on the resort island of Rhodes tore past defenses Monday.

The accused Gilgo Beach serial killer was a nerdy guy who left little love notes on a classmate's locker in high school, the shocked former schoolmate...

In his New York Times column, liberal economist Paul Krugman has often expressed frustration over the fact that so many Americans are feeling sour about the U.S. economy despite low unemployment numbers under President Joe Biden. Those numbers continued in June, when the United States' unemployment ...