HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu and Army helicopters were dropping water from the air to battle a wildfire in a remote mountainous area in Central Oahu on Monday.No structures or homes were threatened and no evacuations were ordered, the Honolulu Fire Department said in a news release.But ash was ...
In a little more than five years – sometime in early 2029 – the world will likely be unable to stay below the internationally agreed temperature limit for <a href="http://www.apnews.com/climate-and-environment.">global warming</a> if it continues to burn fossil ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii's land board has approved handing over state land on Maui to be used for a wildfire memorial and fire debris disposal, but officials urged Maui County to talk further with the community after some raised concerns about how the proposed landfill would affect nearby coral ...
KYBURZ, Calif. (AP) — On a mountainside where walls of flames torched the forest on their way toward Lake Tahoe in 2021, blackened trees stand against a gray sky.“If you can find a live tree, point to it,” Hugh Safford, an environmental science and policy researcher at the University of ...
KYBURZ, Calif. (AP) — On a steep mountainside where walls of flames torched the forest on their way toward Lake Tahoe in 2021, blackened trees stand in silhouette against a gray sky.“If you can find a live tree, point to it,” Hugh Safford, an environmental science and policy researcher at ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is asking lawmakers for nearly $56 billion in emergency spending to help the government respond to natural disasters, shore up funding for child care centers and keep high-speed internet running for low-income families — outlining President Joe Biden's ...