Environment

(AP) — An environmental group has sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to preserve federal protections for gray wolves.

(AP) — One of the first big storms of the season moved across the eastern half of the country, leaving five people dead and closing schools as the freakish weather brought snow as far south as Alabama.

(AP) — At least 59 people were killed and 300 were unaccounted for a week after the flames swept through parts of California.

U.S. Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is demanding that the U.S. commit to shifting 100% of its energy consumption to renewable energy as part of a “Green New Deal” she is demanding party leaders support.

The co-author of a much-hyped, peer-reviewed, alarmist paper claiming to have found a huge, unexpected build-up of global warming heat in the oceans has admitted: “We really muffed” the calculations.

President Donald Trump tweeted on Wednesday afternoon that he had called California Governor Jerry Brown to offer his support in the battle against the ongoing California wildfires — the most destructive in the state’s history.

(AP) — Authorities say six people have been arrested on suspicion of looting when a deadly fire swept through a Northern California town.

CHICO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities searching through the aftermath of the Camp Fire have released the names of about 80 people missing.

Referred to as the Sierra Fire, the San Bernardino County Fire Department say the blaze was sparked after 9 p.m. local time in the Rialto area near Riverside and Sierra avenues. As of Wednesday morning, the blaze scorched 147 acres.

Some 50,000 Canadians marched through Montreal this weekend to protest global warming, while wearing down jackets and parkas to stave off the freezing weather.

PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have reported six more fatalities from a blaze in Northern California, bringing the total number of fatalities so far to 48 in the deadliest wildfire in state history.

(AP) — Victims of California’s most destructive wildfire have filed a lawsuit accusing Pacific Gas & Electric Co. of causing the massive blaze.

The Committee for Responsible Foreign Policy will host an event Wednesday at noon in Washington, DC, to look at the impact of war on the environment.

(AP) — Authorities say destruction from Southern California’s huge wildfire will be significantly higher than the 435 structures already counted as destroyed.

Tragedy struck home for the first responders who sprung into action to save lives impacted by a Northern California blaze as more than 90 of them lost their homes to the wildfires in the region.

A landowner near where the blaze began, Betsy Ann Cowley, said PG&E notified her the day before the blaze that crews needed to come onto her property because the utility’s wires were sparking. Investigators have since declared the area a crime scene.

PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have reported 13 more fatalities from a blaze in Northern California that destroyed a town, bringing the total death toll so far to 42 and making it the deadliest wildfire in recorded state history.

The death toll from the wildfire that incinerated Paradise and surrounding areas climbed to 31 — matching the mark for the deadliest single blaze in California history.

A brand new fire erupted along a Southern California highway near the Los Angeles and Ventura county line on Monday. 

Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby on Monday appeared to blame climate change for the deadly Woolsey fire in Southern California and pushed back against President Donald Trump’s criticism of state officials, who he claimed were responsible for the fast-spreading blaze.

Southern California Edison disclosed to officials that a circuit operated by the company malfunctioned minutes prior to the Woosley fire’s eruption. 

California Gov. Jerry Brown blamed climate change for the devastating California wildfires, despite a complete lack of evidence — a day after President Donald Trump was widely criticized for blaming poor forest management.

Pope Francis highlighted on Monday what he considers two main threats to humanity, namely the “immense crisis” of global warming and the possibility of nuclear war.

Pepperdine University is canceling classes at its Malibu and Calabasas, California, campuses through Thanksgiving in response to the Woolsey Fire that is still ravaging portions of Los Angeles and Ventura counties.

Neil Young called President Donald Trump a climate change “denier” after losing his home in the deadly Woosley fire.

(AP) — With hearses standing by, crews stepped up the search for bodies in the ruins of Paradise, and relatives desperately looked for missing loved ones.

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — Strong Santa Ana winds returned to Southern California on Sunday, fanning a huge wildfire that has scorched a string of communities west of Los Angeles.

Sunday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) responded to President Donald Trump’s tweet about California’s wildfires. Waters said, “The president of the United States attempts to talk about things that he has no knowledge of.  He doesn’t even understand what goes

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) responded to President Donald Trump’s tweet about California’s wildfires. Schiff said, “There are a lot of root causes about why the fire season has become so much worse over the

Karen Foshay, a KCET-TV journalist reporting on the Woosley Fire blazing through parts of Southern California, came face to face Friday evening with a “firenado,” calling the encounter among the most “terrifying” events she has ever experienced.

“There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

A wildfire blazing so quickly that firefighters couldn’t hope to stop it quadrupled in size Friday after destroying several thousand buildings and leveling much of a Northern California town of nearly 30,000 people, according to state authorities. A wind-driven wildfire is also raging through Southern California communities on Friday, relentlessly pushing toward tony Malibu.

PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire that ravaged a Northern California town Thursday sent residents racing to escape on roads that turned into tunnels of fire as thick smoke darkened the daytime sky, wiping out what a Cal Fire

Sky-high sin taxes on meat have been branded “inevitable” in Britain after a study asserted that the move could “save hundreds of thousands of lives” as well as helping stop climate change.

The California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) voted Wednesday to delay the adoption of the controversial new Bay-Delta plan after most of the stakeholders asked for more time to negotiate agreements on water use.