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Great Salt Lake experts told CNN the state would "need another five years like this in order to get the system healthy again."

Hundreds of hazardous sites in California are at risk of flooding, researchers say, which could spread contamination into disadvantaged communities.

New York is the first state in the country to ban natural gas and other fossil fuels in most new buildings -- a major win for climate advocates, but a move that could spark pushback from fossil fuel interests.

Millions of acres scorched by wildfires in the Western US and Canada — an area roughly the size of South Carolina — can be traced back to carbon pollution from the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies, scientists reported Tuesday.

In big cities with a large Pacific Islander presence, like New York, Portland, Oregon, and San Diego, many US-born Pacific Islanders as well as transplants are staying in touch with their culture through dance.

Researchers say that the key climate threshold nations pledged to meet in the Paris Agreement in 2015 — one that would ensure a “safe and just” world — should have been 1 degree Celsius.

New York City topped the list of the world’s worst air pollution Tuesday morning as harmful smoke wafted south from more than a hundred wildfires burning in Quebec.

In a scene eerily similar to that of a post-apocalyptic movie, the New York Yankees hosted the Chicago White Sox as the Yankee Stadium was engulfed in smoke from Canadian wildfires.

Here’s how to keep your pets safe from harmful the wildfire smoke shrouding Canada and parts of the United States.

Avni Pravin did not have asthma growing up.