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California's largest wildfire explodes in size as fires rage across US West

California's largest wildfire explodes in size as fires rage across US West

California's largest active fire exploded in size on Friday evening, growing rapidly amid bone-dry fuel and threatening thousands of homes as firefighters scrambled to meet the danger.
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California's largest wildfire explodes in size as fires rage across US West

California's largest wildfire explodes in size as fires rage across US West

California's largest active fire exploded in size on Friday evening, growing rapidly amid bone-dry fuel and threatening thousands of homes as firefighters scrambled to meet the danger.
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Typhoon Gaemi weakens to a tropical storm as it moves inland carrying rain toward central China

Typhoon Gaemi weakens to a tropical storm as it moves inland carrying rain toward central China

BEIJING (AP) — Tropical storm Gaemi brought rain to central China on Saturday as it moved inland after making landfall at typhoon strength on the country's east coast Thursday night.
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Scores of wildfires are scorching swaths of the US and Canada. Here's the latest on some of them

Scores of wildfires are scorching swaths of the US and Canada. Here's the latest on some of them

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scores of wildfires across the United States and Canada have scorched swaths of land in California, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Alberta and beyond, forcing evacuations and road closures, as well as destroying and threatening structures.
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US coastal communities get $575M to guard against floods, other climate disasters

US coastal communities get $575M to guard against floods, other climate disasters

PERTH AMBOY, N.J. (AP) — The federal government is giving more than a half-billion dollars to coastal communities to help them use nature-based preventative measures to address climate-related flooding and other disasters.
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How to protect yourself from bad air quality due to wildfire smoke

How to protect yourself from bad air quality due to wildfire smoke

As wildfires burn in parts of Canada and the wind carries smoke into communities near and far, health experts are advising people to regularly check air quality ratings and take precautions.
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Federal control board sues Puerto Rico's governor over net metering law

Federal control board sues Puerto Rico's governor over net metering law

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico’s finances filed a lawsuit Friday challenging amendments to the island’s net metering law, which compensates solar-equipped households for their contributions to the grid, tr
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Wood pellets production boomed to feed EU demand. It's come at a cost for Black people in the South

Wood pellets production boomed to feed EU demand. It's come at a cost for Black people in the South

GLOSTER, Miss. (AP) — This southern Mississippi town's expansive wood pellet plant was so close to Shelia Mae Dobbins' home that she sometimes heard company loudspeakers.
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Work continues to clean second motor oil spill in river near Montreal

Work continues to clean second motor oil spill in river near Montreal

MONTREAL — Work continued Friday to clean up the second oil spill in two weeks in the St. Lawrence River off eastern Montreal.
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Ethiopia declares 3 days of national mourning as mudslide death toll rises to 257

Ethiopia declares 3 days of national mourning as mudslide death toll rises to 257

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian lawmakers declared three days of mourning Friday as diggers continued their search for bodies of mudslide victims in a remote part of the East African country.
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