Environment News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 400 school districts spanning all 50 states and Washington, D.C., along with several tribes and U.S.

PHOENIX (AP) — California communities exposed to hazardous dust by a drying lake bed have found themselves at the center of tensions between Arizona and California over how to conserve water along the overtaxed Colorado River. U.S. Sen.

EDMONTON — An environmental group warns last week's changes to the governing United Conservative Party cabinet could threaten protections for Alberta's parks and wildlands.

TORONTO — Royal Bank of Canada outlined Wednesday its climate ambitions for key sectors this decade with targets for lower financed emissions that critics say fall far short of what's needed.

VANCOUVER — An atmospheric river packing "narrow bands of heavy precipitation" is forecast for parts of British Columbia just a week after numerous high temperature records were set amid concerns of drought.

GENEVA (AP) — The three main greenhouse gases hit record high levels in the atmosphere last year, the U.N.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's planet-warming emissions dropped nearly 9% in 2020 compared to the year before as pandemic restrictions kept people at home, out of their cars and away from the workplace for much of the year.

Saudi oil and gas company Aramco unveiled a $1.5 billion fund on Wednesday for sustainable investments, part of efforts to burnish the state-owned company's green credentials in an announcement ahead of the U.N.

NEW YORK (AP) — Even before Superstorm Sandy's floodwaters surged over New York City’s Rockaway Peninsula, there was an air of decay in Edgemere, a far-flung seaside neighborhood long pockmarked with boarded-up homes and vacant lots with waist-high w

VANCOUVER — One of British Columbia's last remaining COVID-19 closures has finally been lifted. Peace Arch Provincial Park, the nine-hectare park that straddles the B.C.