First the good news. Today’s youth are taking action to preserve the environment. The bad? Saving the planet has become a divisive issue. On Monday, a Montana judge ruled in favor of Montana youths ages…

A sizzling month marked by record heat waves, major wildfires, melting sea ice and a burgeoning El Niño will go down in the books as the hottest July on record — at least until next…

A chorus of cricket chirps isn’t just summer background music — it can also be a temperature gauge. Crickets chirp faster when it’s hotter outside, according to a scientific article published in 1897. In “Cricket…

July 18 was one of the hottest days ever in Iola. However, it wasn’t Tuesday. Rather, on July 18, 1954, the mercury nearly blew off the top of the thermometer when it hit 115 degrees.…

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — For at least 80 days, ever since drought and mismanagement sapped the drinking water supply of my country’s capital, the water that has come out of our taps has tasted terribly of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Speaker Kevin McCarthy visited a natural gas drilling site in northeast Ohio to promote House Republicans’ plan to sharply increase domestic production of energy from fossil fuels last month, the signs…

Friday night’s powerful storm demonstrated the valuable service of our city and county employees. It was all hands on deck by the city’s electric department and other city employees who helped clear roads of debris…

It’s too darn hot in much of the United States. Nearly 50 million people are living in a “heat dome” where the temperature has been topping 100 degrees. Heat advisories and warnings are in effect…

LINCOLN, Vt. — The capital of Vermont — the state that often tops those “best states to move to avoid climate change” lists — was, until Tuesday afternoon, mostly underwater. Swollen by record-breaking rainfall, the…

Earth’s average temperature on Wednesday remained at an unofficial record high set the day before, the latest grim milestone in a week that has seen a series of climate-change-driven extremes. The average global temperature was…