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Farms in southwest Colorado are coping with a drought worsened by climate change. It means a big reduction in irrigated water for crops. Conditions this year, one farm manager says, are "the worst."

California accuses oil companies of misleading the public on the dangers of fossil fuels for decades. The state demands they help fund recovery efforts after climate change-fueled disasters.

Firefighters are working in extreme temperatures across the U.S. West and struggling to contain wildfires, the largest burning in California and Oregon, as another heat wave baked the region, straining power grids.

The risk has been exacerbated with hillsides left barren by wildfires and drought making the land unable to absorb so much water.

More Pacific storms are lined up to blast into the state, where successive powerful weather systems have knocked out power to thousands, battered the coastline, flooded streets, toppled trees and caused at least six deaths.

A World Cup trophy may indeed be coming back to the birthplace of soccer for the first time in 57 years. But if the trophy returns to England, it will be with the women's squad, not the men.

Angering environmentalists, the water board decided that cities and farmers would get more Delta water while restricting flows for endangered salmon and other fish. The move came after Gov. Gavin Newsom suspended key environmental laws.

Rep. Mike Levin helped secure the funds, which he said would save ratepayers up to $54 million compared with alternative financing strategies.1

As California sinks deeper into drought it already has had more than 900 additional wildfires than at this point in 2020. The danger has prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom to propose spending a record $2 billion on wildfire mitigation.

The Key deer is losing the only place it lives, raising uncomfortable questions for the people tasked with keeping endangered species alive.