In exploring a potential criminal trial, Spain is now testing how far a democracy can go in holding officials accountable after a natural disaster.

In June, extreme weather hit the US and Europe hard, with intense heatwaves, violent storms, flooding, and wildfires. These ...

Planned programs to protect dunes and beaches on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens are eroded by broken promises from Trump’s ...

Increasing interplay among extreme events and land subsidence impacts calls for urgent mitigation and policy action to reduce detrimental ramifications to infrastructure and people.

Protesters opposed to federal immigration raids clashed with law enforcement in Los Angeles over the weekend. And, who took ...

From coastlines to heartland, new research suggests the very geography of the United States could be dramatically altered by ...

Proposed legislation hasn't moved out of the Assembly and Senate, raising questions about how far California will go in ...

An ambitious proposal that would require fossil fuel polluters to pay for climate disasters caused by the greenhouse ... Gavin Newsom also proposes to reroute money from California’s landmark cap and ...

The La Jolla Light presents this continuing listing of local in-person events and online activities.

Over 200 academics and political leaders met at Stanford for “Climate Resilience and Local Governmental Policy: Lessons from ...

By luck of geology, the Pacific Northwest coast isn’t being hit nearly as hard as other areas of the world by climate change-driven sea level rise. While the U.S. East Coast is expected to see roughly ...

Lake Oroville hit capacity for the third year in a row this spring, marking a first-ever milestone for the lake.