The state's ambitious Climate Superfund legislation would hold fossil fuel companies liable for emissions, but continues to face fierce opposition.

Now a new study, published Wednesday in Nature, uses a machine-learning model to show that climate change has nudged the risk of fast-spreading fires up by about 25% on average in California.

She has covered climate change and natural disasters extensively. Anna joined Newsweek in 2022 from Current Publishing, a local weekly central Indiana newspaper where she worked as a managing editor.

Soaring temperatures. Unusually hot oceans. Record high levels of carbon pollution in the atmosphere and record low Antarctic ice. We’re only halfway through 2023 and so many climate records are ...

Wildfires, drought, extreme heat and other effects of climate change are rapidly accelerating and compounding in California, according to a report from state scientists. The fourth edition of ...

Charts that illustrate the effects of climate change often share a distinct feature: that alarming, bright-red line. The line makes a statement: This is not normal. Sometimes the red isn’t even ...

World leaders are meeting for the 28th time to address the causes and effects of climate change. These five questions and answers show how much our planet has already changed. #1 Which regions ...

These 8 charts are a visual guide to the story of climate change right now.

Getting to the bottom of which countries have contributed most to climate change is complicated, but a few pieces of data can help. This article was updated on November 21, 2022 after delegates at ...

It's all on us. The recent decadeslong surge in catastrophic wildfires in California is almost entirely due to climate change, a new study published Monday reports. “We show that nearly all of ...

California's recent storms and flooding have been extreme, leaving many to ask: Is climate change at play here? We ask the experts. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap ...