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A new study found varying degrees of preparation for challenged California governments that will need to deal with the impact of a warming planet.

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.

A powerful storm barreled toward Southern California.

A powerful atmospheric river storm that swept through California set rainfall records and helped douse wildfires.

The ruling follows a first-of-its-kind trial in the U.S., adding to a small number of legal decisions around the world that have established a government duty to protect citizens from climate change.

South African naturalist Adam Welz has traveled the world, documenting the profound impact of climate change on wild species. He says his research has convinced him despair isn't the answer.

The Imperial Irrigation District in California announced it will conserve 100,000 acre-feet of water in 2024, less than its initial water conservation goals.

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 deluge California received from a powerful atmospheric river made streams and waterfalls come alive while coating mountains with snow, but as the storm heads east it leaves the Golden State still deep in drought.

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."