NOAA: Summer outlook shows Redding, Victorville, Stockton, Salinas and other parts of California hotter than usual. Expect ...

Ecosystems are not being able to adapt as quickly as the climate is changing. Scientists are turning to genetic work to guide ...

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Researchers in California have pinpointed an unexpected impact of climate change within the state: an increase in human-wildlife conflict due to prolonged, climate-exacerbated drought conditions.

California has always lived on the edge. Bone-dry summers, lurching rainstorms, scorching valleys, shivering mountain passes. The state has always worn its extremes like a badge. But something has ...

The cost of water and related services is rising twice as fast as inflation while utilities scramble to cope with escalating droughts and more intense storms.

Rising heat and drought may spur bacteria to exchange antibiotic resistance genes, with potential risks to human health.

A weekslong “snow drought” in Northern California's Sierra Nevada helped set the stage for Tuesday's deadly avalanche, after several feet of new snow fell on an earlier layer that had hardened, making ...

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