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Countries hit hardest by climate change need much more money to prepare, U.N. says

Impacts from global warming hit the world's poorest countries hardest, although they're responsible for a relatively small share of climate emissions. They need more money to protect against risks.

A woman walks with a beach umbrella in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. Excessive-heat warnings expanded to all of Southern California and northward into the Central Valley on Wednesday, and were predicted to spread into Northern California later in the week.

California heat wave sparks fears of power outages, fires

California is in a state of emergency as a brutal heat wave brings the threat of power outages and wildfires.

President Joe Biden greets Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, after arriving on Air Force One at Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, Calif., Thursday, Jan 19, 2023.

Biden tours beach town damaged by massive California storms

President Joe Biden heard from business owners struggling to repair damage to their shops after storms caused devastation.

A female Snail Kite carries an Apple Snail in her mouth while flying over Lake Okeechobee in Moore Haven, Fla. on February 10, 2023.

In Florida, an invasive snail is helping save an endangered bird

The population of an endangered bird, the Everglade snail kite, has rebounded recently. Scientists it's all thanks to an invasive snail that has provided kites with a new abundant food source.

Freeway traffic on interstate 8 on May 21, 2012

California making progress decarbonizing energy generation but with mixed results

The 14th Annual Green Innovation Index finds the state had things to cheer about in the 2020 analysis of the state's progress.

The impact of the Ukraine war on food supplies: 'It could have been so much worse'

That's the view of Joseph Glauber of the International Food Policy Research Institute. He considers the fear the war would lead to a surge in food prices – and a dramatic worsening of world hunger.

Climate activist and Pajaro Valley High School senior Denia Escutia, 18, looks around her mud-coated bedroom in Pajaro, California on March 24, 2023. Days earlier, residents began returning to their homes after a levee breach flooded the area several weeks earlier.

Why California's floods may be 'only a taste' of what's to come in a warmer world

Climate scientists say this winter's storms in California are nothing compared to what's predicted in a warmer world. Some residents in one community question whether its time to leave.

This photo taken on April 25 shows the top of Lake Mead drinking water Intake No. 1 above the surface level of the Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam. The intake is the uppermost of three in the deep, drought-stricken lake that provides Las Vegas with 90% of its drinking water supply.

A barrel containing a body was exposed as the level of Nevada's Lake Mead drops

Police predict that as the water level drops because of drought, more bodies will be found.

People remove Sargassum in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, in April, 2022. Researchers expect this year will bring another massive bloom, choking local ecosystems and tourism economies.

Meet the sargassum belt, a 5,000-mile-long snake of seaweed circling Florida

Since 2011, a fleet of seaweed patches double the size of the contiguous U.S. has cycled from West Africa to Florida, threatening beaches from Martinique to Miami. This year, it could grow bigger.

A powerful storm — seen here at 11 a.m. PT — underwent bombogenesis and intensified as it neared the West Coast on Wednesday, the National Weather Service says.

Powerful storm slams into California, bringing power outages and fears of flooding

The powerful system was seen "undergoing bombogenesis" off California's coast, the NWS office in Sacramento said, referring to its rapid intensification.

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