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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out Friday the “children’s climate lawsuit,” ruling that the effort to force the federal government to take action on climate policy falls under the purview of the legislative and executive branches, not the judiciary.
Specialist firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from wildfires that razed forests west of Sydney, officials said Thursday.
Sen. Bernard Sanders on Friday defended climate protesters charged with disrupting Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ State of the State speech, saying the activists “do not deserve to be arrested,” but should be “applauded and heard.”
Anemic funding, alleged unpaid work and legal fights are hobbling developers of a proposed $800 million oil refinery near Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont indicated he has no plans to cut down on his private jet use during the 2020 campaign and will actually increase his air travel during the Senate impeachment trial so that he can simultaneously campaign in early voting states.
Thousands of people fled their homes and helicopters dropped supplies to towns at risk of nearby wildfires as hot, windy conditions Friday threatened already fire-ravaged southeastern Australian communities.
Environmental red tape and Byzantine permit rules are making it impossible to build in the U.S., President Trump said Thursday in proposing a sweeping regulatory rewrite that would speed up federal approval of bridges, highways, pipelines and other major projects.
The region near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant was hit by an earthquake early Wednesday.
Australian actress Yael Stone said she is giving up her U.S. green card and returning to her home country as a way to cut down on her carbon footprint from having to use air travel.
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg fired back at singer Meat Loaf on Monday after he said she’s been “brainwashed” to believe the worst about climate change.
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Puerto Rico before dawn on Tuesday, the largest in a series of quakes that have struck the U.S. territory in recent days and caused heavy damage in some areas.
A 5.8-magnitude quake hit Puerto Rico before dawn Monday, unleashing small landslides, causing power outages and severely cracking some homes. It was one of the strongest quakes yet to hit the U.S. territory that has been shaking for the past week.
The global benchmark for crude oil rose above $70 a barrel on Monday for the first time in over three months, with jitters rising over the escalating military tensions between Iran and the United States.
Australia’s government said Monday it was willing to pay “whatever it takes” to help communities recover from deadly wildfires that have ravaged the country.
Suburban Detroit officials said Saturday that they haven’t determined the source of a spill or leak of up to 100 gallons (379 liters) of petroleum into a waterway as crews tried to clean it up.
Australia’s prime minister called up about 3,000 reservists as the threat of wildfires escalated Saturday in at least three states with two more deaths, and strong winds and high temperatures were forecast to bring flames to populated areas including the suburbs of Sydney.
The death toll from floods in Indonesia’s capital rose to 43 of Friday as rescuers found more bodies amid receding floodwaters, disaster officials said.
A group of Amazon employees accused the online retail giant Thursday of threatening to fire them for speaking out publicly on “the company’s role in the climate crisis.”
The Trump administration extended Thursday the tenure of Bureau of Land Management interim head William Perry Pendley, defying environmentalists and progressives who had demanded days earlier his resignation or removal.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison was confronted by angry residents who cursed and insulted him Thursday as he visited a wildfire-ravaged corner of the country.
Oil prices surged and most major global stock markets declined Friday after an Iranian general was killed by U.S. forces in Iraq.
The Golden Globes, known as the “party of the year,” is going with a meatless menu for its 77th annual awards show.
Wildfires burning across Australia’s two most-populous states Tuesday trapped residents of a seaside town in apocalyptic conditions, destroyed many properties and caused at least two fatalities.
Environmentalists demanded Monday the resignation of William Perry Pendley, head of the Bureau of Land Management, as the agency moves ahead with plans to relocate most of its staff from Washington, D.C., to the West.
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg said she “wouldn’t have wasted” her time if given the opportunity to discuss climate change with President Trump at the United Nations climate summit earlier this year.
San Franciscans waging war against homelessness and public defecation will be asked to add the fight against disposable coffee cups to their to-do list in 2020.
Japan on Friday revised a roadmap for the cleanup of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, further delaying the removal of thousands of spent fuel units that remain in cooling pools since the 2011 disaster. It’s a key step in the decadeslong process, complicated by high radiation and other risks. The government and the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., are keeping a 30- to 40-year completion target.
A strong typhoon that barreled through the central Philippines left at least 20 people dead and forced thousands to flee their homes, devastating Christmas celebrations in the predominantly Catholic country.
A rare environmental success story is unfolding in waters off the U.S. West Coast.
Democratic presidential hopeful Joseph R. Biden’s pledge to kill blue-collar jobs with a green economy rekindled unwanted comparisons to 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s coal miner flub.
A new cafe culture is brewing in the San Francisco area, where a growing number of coffee houses are banishing paper to-go cups and replacing them with everything from glass jars to rental mugs and BYO cup policies.
Most of the top Democratic presidential contenders have called for eliminating hydraulic fracturing, but such a ban would be “catastrophic” for the U.S. economy, according to a report released Thursday.
Australia’s most populous state of New South Wales declared a seven-day state of emergency Thursday as oppressive conditions fanned around 100 wildfires.
Politicians often make it sound as if the world will end unless they’re elected, but Democratic Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff may be taking it literally.
A federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved two Pacific Gas & Electric settlements totaling $24.5 billion to help pay the losses suffered by homeowners, businesses and insurers in the aftermath of catastrophic Northern California wildfires that sent the nation’s largest utility into a financial morass.
Fox News personality Tucker Carlson was taken to task by a conservancy group Monday after recently asserting that immigrants have made the Potomac River “dirtier.”
Even the star-studded presence of Greta Thunberg and Harrison Ford couldn’t save the U.N. Climate Change Conference.
A swarm of tornadoes and storms that left a trail of destruction across the Southeast killed four people, injured a dozen more and left victims to bundle up against the cold as they picked up pieces of their homes Tuesday.
Chilean officials presiding over this year’s U.N. climate talks said Saturday they plan to propose a compromise to bridge yawning differences among countries that have been deadlocked on key issues for the past two weeks.
Crews have finished draining all of the fuel from an overturned cargo ship three months after it capsized off the coast of Georgia, the team overseeing salvage operations said Thursday.
The anti-meat messaging at the U.N. Climate Change Conference apparently hasn’t deterred attendees from grabbing a bite at one of the world’s most popular burger joints.
Fairfax County has contracted with energy providers to install solar panels on schools and other government properties at no cost to taxpayers — a move officials say will save $60 million in electric costs over 25 years.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Time’s “person of the year” Wednesday, becoming at age 16 the youngest person to whom the U.S. magazine has given the title.
Saudi Arabia’s oil company Aramco gained 10% in its first moments on the stock market Wednesday in a dramatic debut that held until closing and pushed its value up to $1.88 trillion, surpassing Apple as the largest listed company in the world.
The eruption was so silent that Lillani Hopkins didn’t hear it over the hum of the boat’s engines. She didn’t turn around until her dad whacked her.
D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine has filed a lawsuit against Greyhound for idling its buses at Union Station for longer than the legal limit, polluting the air and endangering the health of commuters and workers.
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday called young Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg a “brat” after she expressed concern about the slayings of indigenous Brazilians in the Amazon.
A New York State Supreme Court justice ruled Tuesday in favor of Exxon Mobil Corp. in the “climate fraud” case brought by Attorney General Letitia James, clearing the company of charges of deceiving investors and delivering a devastating defeat to the “Exxon knew” campaign.
Survivors of a powerful volcanic eruption in New Zealand ran into the sea to escape the scalding steam and ash and emerged covered in burns, say those who first helped them.
A volcano off the New Zealand coast erupted Monday with a towering blast of ash and scalding steam as dozens of tourists were exploring the moon-like surface, killing five people and leaving eight others missing and feared dead, authorities said.
For an official document, it looked a little suspicious — the word “aging” was misspelled — and as it turns out, the city of Denver’s declaration of a climate emergency was phony, an elaborate hoax perpetrated by activists.
President Trump wants to bring back “rationality” to federal climate policies, but many of his White House advisers are “nervous” about the political and media fallout, according to a former Trump official.
“Aquaman” star Jason Momoa apologized Tuesday after he called out fellow actor Chris Pratt for posing with a plastic water bottle in an ad for Amazon.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived Tuesday by catamaran in the port of Lisbon after a three-week voyage across the Atlantic Ocean from the United States.
