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A California ballot measure that would tax the rich to help put more electric cars on the road may seem tailor-made to win support from Democrats in a state known for climate leadership, but Proposition 30 has one notable opponent: Gov. Gavin Newsom. That's put the Democratic governor on the opposite side of his own party and against his traditional environmental allies.

The British Columbia government says it's ready to deploy sand bags and tiger dams in case flooding follows the ongoing drought.

California activists paved the way for defining climate change as an air pollution problem. Now it's federal law.

British Columbia Premier John Horgan has signed a new climate pact with the governors of Washington, Oregon and California that includes investments in cross-border climate infrastructure like electric vehicle charging stations.

Despite some rainfall, the state is still suffering from an extreme water shortage driven by the climate crisis — and La Niña may worsen it.

It’s time the industry that bears an immense burden of responsibility for the climate emergency is forced to pay its fair share, writes Avi Lewis.

A new study finds wildfires are burning more high-elevation areas and dramatically impacting the West’s snowpack as a result.

Dr. Suzy Fitzgerald remembers looking out the windows as wildfire flames surrounded the hospital where she worked.

The city came "perilously close" to running out of clean drinking water during last November's floods, and it wasn't the first time the problem has arisen.

It’s rare for rodents to achieve any kind of all-star status; critters like mice, rats, gophers, squirrels, and porcupines have yet to secure their spot as environmental heroes.

Forests Minister Katrine Conroy says it's been a below-average wildfire season so far this year in British Columbia, but high fire risks are forecast for September.

This year was the first tree-planting season where B.C. made it mandatory to plant ones adapted to slightly warmer climates.

Trees are advancing into the Arctic tundra and retreating from boreal forests farther south, where stunting and dieoffs are expected.

Once, a river ran through it. Now, white dust and thousands of dead fish cover the wide trench that winds amid rows of trees in France’s Burgundy region in what was the Tille River in the village of Lux.

Forest fires that have been burning for more than two weeks in central Newfoundland could be a sign of what’s to come as the province feels the impacts of climate change, a local climatologist says.