SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — All fisheries in California will close for the season in April when whales are feeding off the state’s coast as part of an effort to keep Dungeness crab fishery gear from killing protected whales.
OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — The Missouri River floodwater surging on to the air base housing the U.S. military’s Strategic Command overwhelmed round-the-clock sandbagging by airmen and others. They had to scramble to save sensitive equipment, munitions and dozens of aircraft.
Exhibits across U.S. museums today are more and more vigorously focusing on topics related to the environment, which, New York Times writes, could be helping to bring attention to the matter.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is calling in the National Guard for the first time next month to help protect communities from devastating fires like the one that largely destroyed the city of Paradise last fall.
Over the past 20 years, Americans have been twice as likely to sweat through record-breaking heat rather than shiver through record-setting cold, a new Associated Press data analysis shows.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina and California have little in common politically, but the Golden State’s laws are protecting the Palmetto State’s trees.
In the last two decades, tornadoes in the southern region of the U.S. have grown in numbers and in intensity. Now, researchers are trying to discover why these changes are happening so quickly.
BERLIN (AP) — From the South Pacific to the edge of the Arctic Circle, students mobilized by word of mouth and social media are skipping class to protest what they see as the failures by their governments to take tough action against global warming.
