A study published in PNAS Nexus shows that there are almost twice as many risky days for large human-caused fires in the ...

A January 6 rioter who fled the United States after being sentenced for his role in the 2021 Capitol assault was arrested on the four-year anniversary in western Canada, authorities told AFP Friday.

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in nearly three decades as pesticides, diminishing habitat and climate ...

Monarch butterflies in the western U.S. have dropped to just 9,119 this year. In 2023, the count was 233,394, meaning a 96% decline.

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Western states are the laboratory for cutting-edge climate policy—and we’re the lead scientist. Devastating wildfires. Enormous floods. Sweltering, worried communities. The western United States is no ...

Some of the worst drought effects appear in grassland areas — such as in eastern Australia as well as in the western United States, where Los Angeles is battling a spate of deadly and ...

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (WGGB/WSHM/AP) — A 3.8-magnitude earthquake centered near the Maine coast rattled houses in northern New England on Monday and was felt by surprised residents of states hundreds of ...