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Wendy and Norm Alvarez lost their home to the Carr Fire earlier this summer. Low-income people often face more challenges when it comes to recovering from a natural disaster.

'Humbled To Ask For Help' — Low-Income Communities Struggle To Recover After A Wildfire

It is early in the fire season, but nearly 1,400 homes have been destroyed in California wildfires. For low income people, without insurance or savings, it is especially difficult to recover.

In the village of Quilin Novillo, the houses are billboards for the American dream. One is painted red, white and blue, with stars and stripes.

Despite Dangers, Intimidation, Guatemalans Still Seek A Better Life In U.S.

The Trump administration's immigration policies are designed to convince migrants to not cross the border illegally. But poverty and lack of opportunities in Guatemala continue to push people north.

U.S. Forest Service aerial survey of the Cleveland and San Bernardino forests, 2016.

San Diego's Forests Face Possible Extinction

The county's forests have provided shade, shelter and a connection to nature for thousands of years. But fire suppression, severe drought, insects and increasing carbon dioxide have put them under intense pressure, and they could disappear.

A view of downtown Los Angeles as seen from Hollywood in November 2015. California faces permanent water restrictions, ordered Monday by Gov. Jerry Brown, in its fifth year of drought.

California Governor Makes Some Water Restrictions Permanent

Amid a persistent drought, Gov. Jerry Brown is permanently banning wasteful water practices like hosing pavement. His executive order does allow some districts to loosen water restrictions, though.

Assortment of Early and Middle Stone Age tools found in the Olorgesailie Basin, Kenya. The tool at left is a hand axe.

Scientists Are Amazed By Stone Age Tools They Dug Up In Kenya

The discovery suggests an earlier start to the Middle Stone Age in Africa than previously documented. It also offers clues to early social networks and symbolic art by human ancestors.

Gary Stone of the Otero County Cattlemen's Association says ranchers held off activists who wanted a Bundy-style protest over control of federal land. Instead they waged their battle in the courts.

In Rural New Mexico, Ranchers Wage Their Battle Through The Courts

Cliven Bundy is calling on other ranchers to rebel against the government after the collapse of a federal conspiracy case against him. But it's unclear how, or even if, other ranchers will respond.

A helicopter carries water while battling the River Fire in Lakeport, Calif., on Tuesday, July 31, 2018.

California Governor Pledges Any Resources Needed For Fires

A massive wildfire in Northern California has torched more than 1,000 homes in and around the city of Redding, authorities said Wednesday as some evacuees were allowed to return home and new blazes exploded in what has become an endless summer of flame in the Golden State.

A Cal Fire truck is pictured at the Cal Fire Air Attack Base in Ramona, May 7, 2015.

Cal Fire Suspends All Burn Permits Amid Heightened Fire Risk

Heightened wildfire danger posed by ample dry vegetation and increasingly warm, arid weather in the San Diego area prompted Cal Fire to suspend all burn permits for local outdoor residential fires in unincorporated areas beginning Friday.

The Carlsbad Desalination Plant, the largest seawater desalination plant in the U.S., is shown in this aerial view, Sept. 4, 2015.

San Diego Considering Easing Water Use Restrictions

The City Council's environment committee on Thursday gave tentative approval to a proposal to ratchet back water use restrictions, following reports of ample local supply.

A central Illinois farmer plants corn seed into the evening in Farmingdale, Ill.

As Drought Turns To Flood, Farmers Get 'Weather Whiplash'

As Chris Webber checked the 40 acres of muddy field he wanted to plant on a recent morning, he worried about getting more rain, even as he worried about the lack of it.

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