It's been more than three weeks since the beginning of the Los Angeles area wildfires and the level of devastation is ...

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The devastating wildfires that have destroyed entire neighborhoods in Los Angeles this month are adding up to the costliest wildfire event in California history, and they will slow the U.S ...

Mark Gold, water scarcity director for the Natural Resources Defense Council and member of the Metropolitan Water District Board that provides water to 19 million people in Southern California ...

As of Thursday afternoon, six active wildfires are burning in Southern California, and maps shared on the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) website show how each one has ...

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is turning his government's focus toward local natural resource development as fears grow about the possible impacts on provincial revenues from potential U.S ...

Aside from federal government assistance, the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation provides resources to assist businesses survive and recover after natural disasters. Help from ...

This map shows the areas with the restrictions. Drought conditions intensified and expanded in Southern and Central California this ... Department has pre-deployed resources throughout the city ...

The American West is hungry for water, and scientists just found a previously unmapped aquifer three times the size of Lake Mead. The discovery came when researchers, studying drill holes left ...

"This map is tantalizing because it shows that several parts of the U.S. could have a subsurface hydrogen resource after all ... reservoir rocks and natural seals to trap the gas underground.

The nature, process and impact of large-scale natural resource extraction in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh are examined. Through an ethnographic inquiry, the neo-liberal political economy of ...

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – The Los Angeles County Fire Department has provided the following maps of the thousands ... two wildfires could be the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history.