Obama pledges $1 billion for climate change

Will help communities deal with extreme weather events, such as floods, drought, heat waves and wildfires

President Barack Obama on Feb. 14 unveiled a $1-billion fund in his 2015 budget to help communities across the United States prepare for the impact of climate change. The fund, announced in Fresno, California, is part of Obama’s pledge to speed federal assistance to the most populous U.S. state. California is attempting to cope with

two men in a storm-damage crop

Weather damage hints at new normal under climate change

After western Manitoba has been battered by storm 
after storm, residents say they’re convinced

Kendon Campbell was only half a mile from home when the storm hit his Reston-area farm, but he and wife Shirley were stranded as torrents of water flooded their road and drowned four of their cows. It was the third flash flood the Campbells have experienced this year. “I’ve lived here my whole life, and