Climate

An estimated 39 million homes and businesses in the United States could soon face skyrocketing insurance premiums — if they can even find insurance coverage at all. That’s according to a new report from First Street Foundation, which warns that this “insurance bubble” could lead to a costly, widespread housing crisis coast-to-coast.

Summer 2023 broke heat records across the globe but climate experts say it could be the coolest summer we experience for the rest of our lives.

Economists calculate that the world’s corporations produce so much climate change pollution, it could eat up about 44% of their profits if they had to pay damages for what they put out.

The York Fire is burning thousands of acres, displacing countless animals, altering the natural landscape and posing serious threats to human health.

Temperatures have been 1.5 degrees warmer than pre-industrial times for a record 16 days in July.

Starting on later this week, LA County will see its warmest weather of summer. Temperatures will steadily rise before the Friday warmup, with some parts of Southern California reaching the 90s for the whole weekend.

Some parts of the country with see temperatures in the 90s this holiday weekend. Belen De Leon has the forecast for the week of June 26, 2023..

As big-name homeowners insurance companies pack up and leave, customers are forced to pay higher premiums for the few insurance options that remain.

This year’s El Niño is likely to be strong, impacting weather across the globe and possibly making California as wet as last winter

After months of gradually warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean, NOAA officially issued an El Nino advisory Thursday.

Repair Cafe wants you to resist the urge to trash everything. Macy Jenkins and Mary Harris report.

Repair Café, a pop-up repair workshop most recently seen in Pasadena, features volunteer tinkerers, seamstresses, and electricians, troubleshoots how to fix that thing you’re about to throw out.

When we think about water in California, we often focus on what we can see: the snow pack, the reservoirs, and the aqueducts. But there’s a major part of the water supply that we don’t see because it’s hidden under the surface: groundwater.

The environmental group Ocean Conservancy has seen it all when it comes to beach trash, but there are some items that turn up with striking regularity during the group’s annual global beach cleanup events. Here are the top items found in California.

Leading up to Earth Day, take a look at the impact using wells to drain groundwater has on the climate. Meteorologist David Biggar reports for the NBC4 News on April 17, 2023.

There are still hundreds of thousands of pounds of litter found each year on California beaches. The good news is that legislation has led to drastic improvements. Lolita Lopez reports April 17, 2023.

Extreme drought was wiped out in California after a series of winter storms that brought rain and snow to California, boosting the state’s vital snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, according to this week’s U.S. Drought Monitor report.

Extreme drought was wiped out due in large part to a series of winter storms that have drenched California and improved the vital snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, according to this week’s U.S. Drought Monitor report.

Some Californians are being asked to only leave the house if necessary as the state braces for worsening storm conditions.

South LA Eco-Lab received a $35 million grant from Transformative Climate Communities grant Monday from the California Strategic Growth Council.