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Los Angeles is a climate disaster. The fires will change nothing

Thursday - OPINION: Los Angeles is burning. Fossil fuel companies laid the kindling. Soon the world will stop caring.

As climate change threatens Christmas trees, the farming industry tries to evolve

19 Dec 24 - Christmas trees, like any other crop, are affected by the general rise in temperature associated with global warming and the extreme weather events that result from it.

A marine heatwave killed 4 million of Alaska’s murre seabirds

19 Dec 24 - Beginning in late fall 2014 and lasting into 2016, an anomalous, massive marine heatwave nicknamed “the Blob” developed off the western coast of the U.S., covering all of Alaska’s coastwater and extending as far south as Southern California, raising ocean temperatures by several degrees Celsius.

Trump’s climate threats rattle world’s biggest science meeting

17 Dec 24 - Researchers attending the American Geophysical Union conference worry their work could disappear when a president who rejects climate science takes office.

What could a US-China trade war mean for the energy transition?

12 Dec 24 - Ahead of Donald Trump’s second term as US president, a rerun of his first trade war with China is firmly on the cards – and minerals key to the energy transition may end up in the crossfire.

Malibu residents flee as wildfire swallows homes along iconic Southern California coastline

12 Dec 24 - The beaches are empty in Malibu as a wildfire tears through swaths of the iconic Southern California coastline, consuming homes and vehicles and forcing residents – including legendary actor Dick Van Dyke – to flee their coveted hillside properties.

How climate risks are driving up insurance premiums around the US

11 Dec 24 - ‘Tight correlation’ between premium rises and counties deemed most at risk from climate crisis, experts say.

Jeff Bezos wants AI to design your Christmas turkey

3 Dec 24 - If you care about the climate but you’re looking forward to gobbling down some turkey, Jeff Bezos has a proposition for you: let artificial intelligence design a tastier meat alternative.

The Biden administration put $7 billion into 'hydrogen hubs'. Critics smell a boondoggle.

29 Nov 24 - Many experts question hydrogen’s cost and efficacy in reducing CO2 emissions.

Exxon lobbyist investigated over hack-and-leak of environmentalist emails

29 Nov 24 - The FBI has been investigating a longtime Exxon Mobil consultant over the contractor's alleged role in a hack-and-leak operation that targeted hundreds of the oil company’s biggest critics, according...

California governor says state could offer EV rebates if Trump bins federal tax credit

28 Nov 24 - California could offer rebates for electric vehicle purchases if the incoming Trump administration eliminates a federal tax credit for people who buy electric cars, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday.

Trump win forces carbon removal developers to reconsider oil

27 Nov 24 - Startups seeking to vacuum carbon dioxide from the skies have long had an uneasy relationship with the oil giants fueling global warming.

Trump’s top staff choices could have far-reaching consequences for the climate

21 Nov 24 - Several of President-elect Donald Trump’s high-ranking staff choices have close ties to the fossil fuel industry.

Climate skeptics urge Trump to boost coal, gut science in agencies

20 Nov 24 - Activists who downplay climate change delivered a wish list to Trump’s transition team, with one calling his win “a tremendous opportunity” to reverse US policy.

US ‘likely’ to pledge new climate target, says White House

15 Nov 24 - Donald Trump’s return raised doubts over whether the Biden administration would still produce the plan ahead of a February deadline.

How a former ExxonMobil employee confronted the climate disinformation machine

13 Nov 24 - Former ExxonMobil climate scientist Lindsey Gulden: “It was after I was fired for reporting a garden variety fraud that I really sat back and thought about the implications for climate change.”

Despite likely setback for climate action at the US election, new climate champions set to enter Congress

12 Nov 24 - Across the US, voters elected new members to Congress who have promoted climate action at the state level and could prevent environmental laws from being weakened under Republican leadership.

Donald Trump is likely to scale back America's climate targets - will other countries follow suit?

11 Nov 24 - The US had been a major diplomatic force in climate talks under previous administrations, but Donald Trump's election will likely usher in a new era.

'Sin City could be called Solar City': How Las Vegas is going green

11 Nov 24 - From conserving water to scaling up solar, Sin City is investing millions in sustainability measures.