Environment

Fighting fires has been compared to the military in another way — the stress that soldiers go through.

At least 71 people have died across Northern California.

Lawmakers have introduced legislation to reauthorize the debt-ridden National Flood Insurance Program that is set to expire.

Authorities confirmed a new death toll of 71 and say they are trying to locate 1,011 people even as they stressed that not all are believed missing.

It was a day for apologies and excuses for politicians after many commuters spent hours and hours getting home Thursday.

No official cause for the fire has been identified; the blaze is currently 45 percent contained.

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An intense wind from the west frothed the Delaware Bay and tore at the signs activists held as they gathered on the beach near the East P ...

Knowledge of sea level rise has not stopped building in vulnerable areas along the New Jersey and Delaware coasts.

Authorities on Tuesday reported six more fatalities from the Northern California blaze, bringing the total number of dead so far to 48.

"I'm staying hopeful," she said. "Until the final word comes, you keep fighting against it."

31 people have died so far in wildfires in both Northern and Southern California.

This week a federal judge in Montana temporarily blocked TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil over 1,000 miles from the Alberta tar sands to Nebraska.

Not a single resident of Paradise can be seen anywhere in town after most of them fled the burning Northern California community that may be lost forever.

Construction and hydrotesting are ‘100 percent’ done, officials tell financial analysts.