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UPDATED with latest: After a week of very little progress, firefighters gained real ground on Tuesday night against what has become the third-largest fire ever recorded in Los Angeles. The Bobcat Fire moderated overnight allowing crews to complete defensive firing operations from Highway 2 to Mt. Wilson, creating a…

Toward the end of his news briefing on the state of California’s multiple emergencies, California Governor Gavin Newsom was challenged about the changing nature of his rhetoric on Donald Trump’s policies. A reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle highlighted the fact that the governor sent out toughly-worded…

Joe Biden went on offense in advance of Donald Trump’s visit to California on Monday, as the Democratic nominee blasted the president as a “climate arsonist” who is ignoring science and how it relates to extreme wildfires out west and natural disasters elsewhere. “If you give a climate arsonist four more years in the…

Activist and Academy-Award Winner Robert Redford and his son James Redford wrote a scathing opinion piece for NBC calling out “the cost of failed leadership” under President Trump. “As the pandemic began its global march,” they write, “President Donald Trump failed to act quickly and decisively, likely increasing its…

Raphael Coleman, a former child actor who became a climate change activist, has died. He was 25. Coleman passed away Friday, his mother and stepfather shared in separate social media posts over the weekend. “Rest in peace my beloved son Raphael Coleman, aka Iggy Fox. He died doing what he loved, working for the…

President Donald Trump took to Twitter to take a swipe at 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg after she was named Time‘s Person of the Year. “So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!” Trump wrote. So ridiculous…

Everything is connected when it comes to nature, in the view of filmmaker Nicolas Brown. His documentary film, The Serengeti Rules, depicts a handful of scientists whose breakthrough discoveries about everything from urchins to otters all turned out to be interrelated in the larger scheme of things. Similarly, the…

Young people took to the streets Friday for global protests over climate change, known as "Global Climate Strike" events. The marches and rallies took place in just about every corner of the world, including in Paris, Seoul, New York City, San Francisco, and Madison, Wisconsin, according to The Associated Press. Many…

Amazon has taken a vow to become carbon-neutral by 2040, 10 years earlier than the date specified by the Paris Climate Accord. CEO Jeff Bezos announced the new initiative, which it calls The Climate Pledge, as well as a set of related moves at a news conference Thursday (see a video clip below). The tech giant has…

Mick Jagger and Donald Sutherland criticized the Trump administration today for wiping out environmental rules created to combat climate change. The Rolling Stones frontman and the award-winning actor made the comments at the Venice Film Festival, while promoting their new thriller, The Burnt Orange Heresy. "We’re in…