A new international report shows that climate change made this year’s devastating Los Angeles wildfires twice as likely and 25 times larger, as warming, drought, and vegetation growth combined to create explosive fire conditions worldwide.
Los Angeles officials have declared eight Pacific Palisades properties — among them a mansion featured in HBO’s Succession — public nuisances after owners failed to clear toxic debris from the Palisades fire.
Climate change and poverty are increasingly intertwined, with hundreds of millions of people enduring multiple simultaneous hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, and air pollution.
The U.N.-backed Net-Zero Banking Alliance, formed to align global finance with climate goals, has disbanded after major banks pulled out amid political pushback and rising fossil fuel investments.
From rooftops and roads to farmers' fields and the open sea, solar power can already be captured almost anywhere. The next frontier? Harnessing the sun's energy in space to power life on Earth.
