In concept, the public supports battery-powered cars, windmills, and solar farms to shrink California's carbon footprint. But some also see a downside.

California lawmakers propose legislation that could allow vicims of the devastating Southern California wildfires to sue oil and gas companies.

With battery-powered cars, windmills, and solar farms California hopes to shrink its carbon footprint to nothing. But some see a downside.

Washington Post staff tried to separate what is happening from what is not, and to explain what may happen in the future.

A strong Pacific storm will begin to uncoil across Oregon, Washington and Northern California through the weekend, promising heavy rain and snow that will replenish water supplies but could also ...

Human-caused climate change increased the intensity of the dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent ...

As deforestation increases in the Amazon, it will decrease precipitation in California and create drier conditions in ...

A new study finds that the region's extremely dry and hot conditions were about 35 percent more likely because of climate ...

Extreme weather is becoming more destructive as the world warms, but how can we say that climate change intensified the fires ...

Trump ordered the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, placing the world's top historic emitter of greenhouse ...

A winter storm sweeping through the U.S. South on Tuesday was dumping snow at levels millions of residents haven’t seen ...

Climate change has brought both fiercer rains and deeper droughts, leaving the city with brush like kindling—and the ...