Climate change poses ‘major risk’ to US financial system, federal report warns
The report, commissioned by President Donald Trump’s CFTC, found that climate change is already impacting or is anticipated to impact nearly every facet of the economy.
Mexico sends 100 firefighters to help battle California wildfires
Mexico has sent 100 firefighters to the United States to help battle wildfires in California, it was reported Wednesday.
Utility equipment eyed as possible source of massive Bobcat Fire burning in Angeles National Forest
Federal investigators are looking into whether a huge wildfire near Los Angeles was sparked by Southern California Edison utility equipment, the company said.
Concerns in Menomonee Falls over Waste Management expansion plan
Waste Management wants to expand its landfill operations for years to come but first has to dig up a toxic waste dump, leading to environmental concerns.
Huge chunk of Greenland’s ice cap breaks off, evidence of rapid climate change, scientists say
The glacier section that broke off is 42.3 square miles. The glacier is at the end of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, where it flows off the land and into the ocean.
Feds deny moose protections in Wisconsin, 3 other Midwest states
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ruled “the northwestern subspecies” of moose historically found in North Dakota, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan is stable.
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness becomes International Dark Sky Sanctuary
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is now a certified International Dark Sky Sanctuary, one of only 13 in the world.
High alert: Deadly Northwest fires burn hundreds of homes
Deadly windblown wildfires raging across the Pacific Northwest destroyed hundreds of homes in Oregon, the governor said Wednesday, warning it could be the greatest loss of life and property from wildfire in state history.
Fires, hurricanes, triple-digit heat: Think 2020′s disasters are wild? Experts see worse in future
A record amount of California is burning, spurred by a nearly 20-year mega-drought. To the north, parts of Oregon that don’t usually catch fire are in flames.
'Heartbreaking destruction': A dozen large wildfires burning in Washington
The 300,000-plus acres that have burned in Washington state over the past 24 hours is more than double the total acreage that burned in the state last year.
Over 2.2 million acres torched as California experiences record-breaking wildfire season in 2020
California is experiencing a record-breaking fire season. Fire officials said Tuesday that in 2020, wildfires have torched more than 2.2 million acres across the state, surpassing the 1.96 million acres burned in all of 2018.
Washington 'firestorm' destroys 80% of small town as wildfires rage in Pacific Northwest
Nearly every structure in a small town in eastern Washington state was destroyed in a raging wildfire on Monday as weather conditions have allowed blazes to grow across the Pacific Northwest.
Yellowstone's Giantess Geyser erupts for first time in 6 years, roars 'back to life'
After a slumber that stretched for more than six years, a geyser at Yellowstone National Park erupted once again last week.
Weather improves, thousands of evacuated Californians return home after wildfires
In the past two days, evacuation orders were lifted for at least 50,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area and wine country, officials with the state fire agency, Cal Fire, said Thursday evening. At their peak, some 170,000 people were under evacuation orders.
Some Californians didn’t get evacuation alerts in wildfires
“They alert us about all kinds of crap, but this was life-threatening,” she said, adding that she got an alert in April about a bear sighting 15 miles away. “If fire’s going to be a way of life for California, we at least have to have an alert system.”
California inmates battling wildfires despite COVID-19, early releases
Inmate firefighters feel they've been forgotten by the California Department of Corrections and forced to keep battling wildfires as prisoners convicted of similar or more serious crimes are let out of prison early amid the coronavirus pandemic.
'Historic in nature:' Some California fires scorching earth at 1,000 acres an hour
Some fires burning in that area were eating up the earth as fast as 1,000 acres an hour.
Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice in record melt last year
“Not only is the Greenland ice sheet melting, but it’s melting at a faster and faster pace,” said study lead author Ingo Sasgen, a geoscientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany.
Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice in 2019 | Global Climate Crisis
A new satellite study finds that Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice (140 trillion gallons of water) in a record melt in 2019 — enough to cover all of California in more than four feet of water.
Amazon rainforest continues to burn in 2020 despite promises to save it
This year, Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro pledged to control the burning. He imposed a four-month ban on most fires and sent in the army.