Climate Change

First public global database of fossil fuels launches as U.N. holds climate talks

By Drew Costley, Associated Press

A first-of-its-kind database for tracking the world's fossil fuel production, reserves and emissions launches on Monday to coincide with climate talks taking place at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Wyoming's Flaming Gorge recedes as U.S. megadrought creeps further north

By Mead Gruver, Associated Press

A boating and fishing paradise on the Utah-Wyoming line is beginning to feel the effects of the two-decade megadrought gripping the southwestern U.S.

Deadly flash floods devastate several towns in central Italy

By Frances D'Emilio, Associated Press

Flash floods triggered by heavy rain have swept through towns in a hilly central Italy.

Report shows devastating economic impact of rising sea levels along American coast

By William Brangham

For years, scientists have warned about the dangerous consequences of climate change, and many dire outcomes are more urgent than most people realize. A new report shows sea-level rise will threaten homes and properties in hundreds of counties along the…

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Kenya's new president makes ambitious pledge for climate plan

By Wanjohi Kabukuru, Associated Press

Kenya's newly elected president William Ruto said that climate change will be key to the government's agenda and made an ambitious pledge to ramp up clean energy and phase out fossil fuels for electricity by 2030 during his inauguration speech…

Pakistan scrambles to deliver aid as flood death toll continues to rise

By Munir Ahmed, Associated Press

Pakistan is scrambling to deliver aid and save lives as the death toll from record-breaking floods in this impoverished Islamic nation rose to 1,481, with 54 more people dying in rain-related incidents in the past 24 hours.

E.U. lawmakers advance plan to ban products linked to deforestation

By Samuel Petrequin, Associated Press

European Union lawmakers have backed a proposal for a law that would ban the sale in the 27-nation bloc of agriculture products linked to the destruction of forests.

'We are heading in the wrong direction' U.N. says in new report on climate change

By Associated Press

The United Nations says weather disasters costing $200 million a day and irreversible climate catastrophe looming show the world is “heading in the wrong direction.”…

100 years after compact, Colorado River nearing crisis point

By Brittany Peterson, Associated Press, Chris Outcalt, The Colorado Sun

In November 1922, seven land-owning white men brokered a deal to allocate water from the Colorado River, which winds through the West and ends in Mexico.

Weather aids firefighters, but threat from Western wildfires persists

By Associated Press

Firefighters made progress against a huge Northern California wildfire that was still growing and threatening thousands of mountain homes, while crews also battled major blazes Sunday in Oregon and Washington.