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Conservative court asked to rule on several signature policies in 2026-27 term – will it rule in president’s favor?

Hurricane Isaias brought strong winds and heavy rain to Florida Friday night, with gusts reaching 96 mph reported at Pensacola Bay.

Eight of the nine justices heard nearly two hours of oral arguments in a case involving an effort by the city and county of Boulder, Colorado, to hold energy companies accountable for the effects of global climate change.

The IEA and climate negotiators want to set a target for shifting the economy to run on electricity.

Justices debate whether local governments can sue energy giants for harms linked to climate change.

The case centers on whether local governments can hold giant energy companies accountable for the local harms of climate change, but it has repercussions beyond climate.

It wasn't obvious at the time, but the US uncoupled carbon emissions and GDP growth.

In an interview with NBC News, Vance said he is cautiously optimistic that Republicans’ numbers are improving even as concerns about the war and gas prices take a political toll.

The decision to step aside is a reversal after the justice previously indicated he wouldn’t recuse himself.

A Sunrise Movement co-founder is running for Congress. He’s talking more about data centers than climate.

Code Pink disrupted a Nature Conservancy event at NYC Climate Week, demanding the group address the Pentagon's carbon footprint and military pollution.

$11M competition showed wildfire detection is still easier than stopping fires.

Wildfires are putting America’s aging electric grid under mounting strain at a time when power demand is soaring.

Democrats have a shot at five new trifectas—but Kansas could go full Republican.

Media workers are grappling with increasingly volatile press climate in US, with some detained and even deported...

Persistent distractions are feeding a climate of mistrust as the U.S. military faces a series of wartime issues, including shortfalls of missile interceptors.

A German man has been arrested after a spate of attacks with what have been described as home-made rockets against electrical infrastructure.

A curious online row over this summer's heatwaves points to a wider - and worrying - shift in climate science.

The US oil blockade is forcing Cubans to think outside the box for tasks that usually require electricity. Farmers pasteurize milk over charcoal fires, commuters ride solar-powered Chinese tricycles, tour guides grind coffee by hand for the vanishingly few visitors that remain.

Renewable energy mandates drive up electricity costs and compromise grid reliability, making carbon reduction inefficient.

Court victory over New York’s climate law previews Supreme Court showdown over Boulder’s effort to make energy companies pay.

Resurfaced 2020 remarks show Texas Senate nominee James Talarico linking capitalism, white supremacy, and climate change while questioning the future of oil and gas.

More than 3,000 people are still missing after catastrophic flash floods hit following a glacial collapse high in the Himalayan region.

Deadly flooding along the China-Nepal border has put a sharp spotlight on how risks from natural disasters in the Himalayas are growing, at the same time that countries in the region are rapidly building out their high-altitude infrastructure footprints.

The scramble to find water – collecting it in small vessels and cisterns– is a daily survival routine for residents in Puerto Rico due to widespread service interruptions and extreme drought.

For years, industry has argued you can't prove which company caused which disaster. A new study says otherwise.

Hawk fire has covered more than 13,000 acres as blaze approaches University of Nevada campus in Reno...

After wildfires the group painted an image bearing the words "Our house is on fire, Andy".

MPs say crews are under pressure due to wildfires, including the large one at a nature reserve.

Indiana public safety officials say at least six people have died during days of storms and historic flooding in the stateAt least six people dead from days of storms and record-setting flooding in Indiana...

The incident, about 50 miles north of Austin, sparked a large wildfire.

Yet he won't recuse himself from key oil and gas cases.

The massive Toba eruption seems to have had little climate impact.

Officials did not identify the pilots but said they were employed by Helicopter Transport Services, which was contracted by US Forest Service...

Move to raise levy on goods made with polysilicon aims to protect domestic US supply chains from China, the major producer...

Plus: A drought is wreaking havoc along Europe’s rivers, and President Trump says Big Oil is making too much money...

The funds have been frozen since early in President Trump’s second term.

A man suspected of arson in one of three wildfires tearing through eastern Washington state has been arrested, authorities say, as firefighters race to contain flames before they obliterate more homes.

There are currently no high-speed trains in the U.S. that reach over 160 miles per hour. Duffy said noise pollution regulations have a lot to do with it.

President Trump keeps predicting Cuba will collapse after he cut off its oil. But it’s still standing. Our reporter Jack Nicas visited to see how Cubans are adopting solar to offset the power shortage.

Firefighters are braced for a sharp rise in temperatures on Wednesday, which could complicate the containment of wildfires in Gironde.

It's a moment of reckoning in the drought-stricken West as seven states can't agree on how to share the rapidly shrinking water supply.

The Canadian wildfires are a reminder of how ideology and short-term thinking drive poor forest management.

President Donald Trump threatened to increase tariffs or to make the country pay damages after speaking with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Wildfire smoke from Canada sparks tariff threats as the president targets pollution crossing into the U.S.

“We will not tolerate this incompetence,” vowed Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, who may not understand how climate change works.

Canadian leader Mark Carney says both the US and Canada have an equal responsibility to fight climate change, which experts say are worsening wildfire conditions.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney dismissed that his government could be doing more to contain the wildfires ravaging Ontario.

President Donald Trump called the smoke pollution from Canada's wildfires affecting the United States from the Great Lakes to the mid-Atlantic "totally unacceptable."...

Around a year’s worth of rain has fallen as flooding hits the same area of last year’s Camp Mystic flooding. Follow for live news updates.

The Week of July 6, 2026: Good news on demographic change, defense, climate, Social Security, and much more.

Conditions are set to worsen in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, forecasters said.

“This is a totally different way to think about geoengineering.”...

Matthew Wielicki frequently criticizes established climate science online, including in videos from rightwing PragerU...

A local official said four of the victims may be British after a fire broke out near Los Gallardos, Almería.

The Democratic candidate's history of veganism and climate action clashes with Colorado 8th district, a leading beef cattle and dairy producer.

Major lenders are all in as Big Oil pivots toward plastics, pesticides, and other petrochemicals.

While millions of Americans across the Northeast experienced record-setting temperatures, thunderstorms in the Midwest downed trees, ruptured power lines and made transportation treacherous.

This Fourth of July, fires burning in several states have forced local officials to rethink celebration plans.

Americans across political parties agree that global warming is raising the cost of living, a new survey shows.

Amid public outcry over water-guzzling server farms, a Guardian analysis indicates trouble ahead.

The climate phenomenon is intensifying an already unequal global economy...

Jonathan Rinderknecht is accused of starting the blaze that became Los Angeles’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire...

The president spent his weekend “executive time” flooding Truth Social with AI-generated memes.

Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse is pushing back on the “climate hushing” trend.

And no thanks to the Trump administration.

Industry trade groups reject the administration's claims, saying the rollback of the Biden-era regulations would actually drive up prices.

The president has unintentionally set off an international scramble for renewable energy due to his war in Iran...

New research shows every $1 the US Forest Service spent to minimize wildfire risk prevented nearly $4 in damages.

The process of making 30 billion tons of concrete every year produces more carbon pollution than all the world's ships and planes put together. Now, the North Carolina and Denmark-based Biomason is using biotechnology, including naturally-occurring microbes, to create "biocement" that's just as stur...