Enviro.News

We asked people whose jobs require them to routinely face temperatures over 100 degrees for their coping strategies. Start with water.

Organizers want the July 4 fireworks in the nation’s capital to break the world record. But the fun will also come with air pollution and possibly headaches for pet owners and zoo keepers.

More than 160 million people are under extreme heat warnings or heat advisories ahead of the Fourth of July weekend.

Jenifer Chatfield, a top official at the Interior Department, faces scrutiny from ethics experts for actions that could help her family’s business.

What’s causing all the record-breaking heat, and when will it end?

Thousands of acres in Utah and other Western states have burned. Here is what to know about the firefighters who have died, the destruction so far and the spreading smoke.

New York could record 100 degrees for the first time since 2012, as a brutal heat wave spreads east.

The German company is doubling down on electric vehicles even as other automakers pull back after acknowledging billions of dollars in losses.

Dangerous heat is expected across much of the country through the Fourth of July weekend.

Thousands of acres in Utah and other Western states have burned as a U.S. heat wave widens.

Since last week, meteorologists issued a series of increasingly dire warnings about extremely critical weather conditions.

It was the fourth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to forfeit their offshore wind leases.

A heat wave responsible for shattering numerous temperature records in Western Europe continued its shift east.

First estimates published by the national health agency listed hundreds more deaths per day compared with the daily death rate in previous months.

As the continent swelters, some right-wing populists are talking up their support for air-conditioning.

The devastating heat wave has exposed weaknesses in the continent’s infrastructure, much of it built for a cooler climate that no longer exists.

Many philanthropists are backing away from climate giving. But one is writing very big checks.

Price cuts and low-interest-rate loans are luring buyers, including people offended by the company’s chief executive.

Gregg Phillips was in charge of the emergency response agency’s largest division and had come under scrutiny for a series of bizarre claims.

The lawsuit aims to hold fossil fuel companies responsible for a heat wave in Portland five years ago. The industry says the case should be thrown out.