CO2: 423.28 ppmIn what could be a glimpse of the future as climate change batters the West, officials ruled there’s not enough groundwater for projects already approved.
The largest insurer in California said it would stop offering new coverage. It’s part of a broader trend of companies pulling back from dangerous areas.
Wildfires that have already forced thousands in the eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia to evacuate continued to rage on Wednesday, causing poor air quality hundreds of miles away as smoke drifted south across the U.S. border.
Wildfires in Nova Scotia have heightened the sense of unease as blazes also burn in the west of the country.
The biggest evacuations were in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where a state of emergency was declared.
Canada's government is sending the military to the Eastern province of Nova Scotia on Thursday to help tackle wildfires, and more U.S. firefighters will come to battle the early summer blazes, the minister responsible for emergencies said.
Wildfires are burning out of control for a fourth day in Canada’s Atlantic-coast province of Nova Scotia. The unprecedented fires are preventing some 18,000 evacuees from returning home. Halifax deputy fire chief David Meldrum said that can't happen yet because of warmer than usual temperatures and no rain forecast until at least Friday night. Fire officials estimate 200 structures have been destroyed, including 151 homes. A forest protection manager says all the fires were likely human-caused. Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston has declared a ban on all travel and activity in wooded areas. He's imploring people to avoid doing things that could start more blazes.
Canadian emergency officials issued a mandatory evacuation order for parts of Bedford, Nova Scotia, after authorities noted a new wildfire and the potential for an ammonia leak in the area, CBC News reported on Tuesday.
The justices ruled that many wetlands are not covered by the Clean Water Act.
The agreement on cuts, aided by a wet winter and $1.2 billion in federal payments, expires at the end of 2026.
Arizona will not approve new housing construction on the fast-growing edges of metro Phoenix that rely on groundwater thanks to years of overuse and a multi-decade drought worsened by climate change. In a news conference Thursday, Gov. Katie Hobbs announced the pause on new construction that would affect some of the fastest-growing areas of the nation’s fifth-largest city. Driving the state’s decision was a projection that showed that over the next 100 years, demand for almost 5 million acre-feet of groundwater in metro Phoenix would be unmet without further action, Hobbs said. An acre-foot of water is roughly enough to serve two to three U.S. households per year.
The report released by Gov. Katie Hobbs Thursday amounts to a chilling warning for the nation’s fifth largest-city, and a metropolitan area with more than 5 million people that has been a development hotspot for new residents and high-tech businesses.