The Washoe County Sheriff's Office HOPE team is paying special attention to a particular homeless camp along the Truckee River east of Sparks between Lockwood a
BERLIN (AP) — Nations must keep up hope and focus on tackling global warming despite the many obstacles now to international cooperation — including the war in Ukraine, the coronavirus pandemic, food shortages and rising energy costs, the U. N...
Haze has been visible across parts of northern Nevada for several days. Washoe County's Air Quality Management District said a mix of smoke from fires in Russia and China plus a mix of dust from the Gobi Desert can be...
GENEVA (AP) — The U. N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn't meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use, which generates pollutants that cause respiratory and blood-flow...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Art Cooley, a longtime activist who co-founded the Environmental Defense Fund more than 50 years ago, has died. Cooley, 87, helped launch the group, now one of the world's leading environmental organizations, from his living room on...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top diplomats of the United States and the world's other worst climate-polluting nations talked global warming together Thursday for the first time since November's U. N. summit, with U. S. climate envoy John Kerry urging tougher commitments...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities closed schools indefinitely and shut down some coal-burning power plants Wednesday to reduce air pollution in India's smog-shrouded capital and neighboring states, as the country weighs an unprecedented and more far-reaching step: a lockdown in...
