Every summer, people living near the Mendenhall River in Juneau, Alaska, keep a close eye on the water level. When...
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday approved its first construction permit for a commercial nuclear reactor in eight years,...
Amid a worldwide resurgence of interest in nuclear energy, cracks are showing in California’s 50-year-old moratorium on the technology as...
Legislation to make wildfire risk scores more transparent passed out of the Washington state Senate on nearly unanimously. Senate Bill...
Rain and snow are expected to return to the Rockies and the Western U.S. over the next few weeks, but...
Elon Musk’s “Vegas Loop,” a network of underground tunnels to ferry passengers in Teslas, was under fresh scrutiny this week...
States in the U.S. West are grappling with an unusually warm, arid winter that is ramping up fire risk in...
Many Americans believe climate change climate change is likely to cause some cities to be lost to rising sea levels,...
Mike Lambert heard fewer illegal fireworks exploding in his suburban Honolulu neighborhood in the months after a chain of blasts...
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie is trying to get more homes built for people like Liam Murphy: a fifth-generation city...