In a drafting session of the Democratic Party's policy platform, supporters of Hillary Clinton brushed off calls by environmental activists for several strong actions to move away from fossil fuels. Credit: REUTERS/Steve Marcus

Platform's authors request federal climate probe into 'allegations of corporate fraud,' while brushing off calls for carbon tax and other strong climate policies...

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In its first six months of existence, the world’s first solar road is performing even better than developers thought...

FLOOD EMERGENCY IN RICHWOOD, WV Photo Credit: Jeremy Rose

Some of the worst flooding in West Virginia "in 100 years" has left at least 23 people dead, including two children...

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According to the Ventura County fire department, up to 700 barrels of crude oil — some 29,000 gallons — have spilled from a pipeline in southern California...

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Will the liars pay for their sins? More people will die from climate change then tobacco...

  Oceanic white-tip sharks, Bahamas, May 2012 Norbert Wu—Getty Images/Minden Pictures RM

It's not because sharks are getting fiercer...

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Pink snow was a high-latitude curiosity described by Arctic explorers such as Britain’s John Ross...

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Thousands of cities from six continents united Wednesday to create the largest global coalition committed to battling human-caused climate change and pushing the world into a low-carbon economy...

Sequoia National Park. (Photo: USFS Region 5/Flickr)

The mortality rate is unprecedented and will fuel the state’s fire season...

In this March 25, 2014 photo, a worker watches over a hydraulic fracturing operation at an Encana Corp. oil well near Mead, Colo. In the background is a tall canvas wall around the perimeter of the extraction site, which mitigates noise, light and dust coming from the operation during the drilling and completion phase, which generally takes a few weeks. CREDIT: AP Photo/Brennan Linsley

A federal judge ruled Tuesday against the Obama administration’s proposed regulations on fracking, on the grounds that the Department of Interior does not have the authority to regulate fracking on federal lands...

The Obama administration's hydraulic fracturing rule is dead...

A European, right, and Union flags are displayed outside Europe House, the European Parliament's British offices, in London, Wednesday, June 22, 2016. Britain votes whether to stay in the European Union in a referendum on Thursday. CREDIT: AP Photo/Matt Dunham

As Britons head to the voting booth Thursday to consider whether or not to stay in the European Union, some environmentalists are saying that a so-called Brexit vote could pave the way for more fracking in the United Kingdom...

Ludovico Einaudi, an Italian pianist, composed an arrangement to raise awareness for Arctic preservation for Greenpeace. Watch him play on a floating platform in the Arctic Ocean in Norway. (Victoria Walker/The Washington Post)

An aerial view of snowpack in the Sierra Nevada and Yosemite National Park in January. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

When forecasters last year warned of a massive El Niño, some Californians held out hope that a single extremely wet year could bust the state’s severe drought...

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Germany's coalition government agreed to ban fracking for shale gas indefinitely on Tuesday, after years of fractious talks over the issue, but environmental groups said the ban did not go far enough and vowed to fight the deal...

Patrick Edwards-Daugherty, the founder of drone company, Pleiades. Photo from Facebook.

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  A technology more closely associated with geeky hobbyists and the military may be the next weapon in the fight against climate change....

Aerial view of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant which sits on the edge of the Pacific Ocean at Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County, California, on March 17, 2011. MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images

California’s half-century dalliance with atomic energy could soon be over. On Tuesday, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. announced its proposal to close Diablo Canyon, the state’s last remaining nuclear power plant, by 2025...

Heat waves, like the one that baked India this year, will become the new normal without emissions cuts, a new study says. Credit: Reuters

New study shows dangerously hot summers will become the norm across much of the globe unless greenhouse gas emissions are significantly reduced...

Documenting the dead coral after the bleaching event at Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef, captured by the XL Catlin Seaview Survey in May 2016. Image: XL Catlin Seaview Survey

The ongoing coral bleaching event that has killed or severely injured reefs from the Great Barrier Reef to Hawaii and the Indian Ocean has set its sights on the U.S. during the rest of 2016 and into next year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...