A top adviser to President Joe Biden says the deadly wildfires in the Los Angeles area are the latest sign of the growing threat posed by climate change — one that President-elect Donald Trump will have to take more seriously than he did in his first term.

John Podesta, Biden’s senior adviser for international ... “these challenges from extreme weather events that are induced by climate change are just getting worse and worse,’’ Podesta ...

John Podesta, Biden’s senior adviser for international ... “these challenges from extreme weather events that are induced by climate change are just getting worse and worse,” Podesta said.

FILE - John Podesta, U.S. climate envoy, speaks during a plenary session at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 13, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits ...

Besides the heartbreak of losing lives and losing homes, there are obvious economic factors here that cannot be ignored:

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Deskcollaboration. Even before President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White Hous

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Joe Biden’s climate agenda, broader and more ambitious than that of any U.S. president before him, is poised to stand as the most consequential feat of his presidency. He succeeded in getting Congress to pass the Inflation Reduction Act,

For years, Barfield had been resisting what he describes as mission drift: a retreat by the nation’s premier free-speech organization from the viewpoint-neutral defense of civil liberties, which had long been its core mission,

influencing weather patterns and regulating the pace of climate change. John Abraham, a professor at the University of St. Thomas and a co-author of the study, emphasized that "to understand ...

Today, the Los Angeles Times is launching Boiling Point, a podcast about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Yes, that’s the same name as this newsletter. I hope you’ll subscribe and listen.

For her, climate change looms over the tragic losses. The energy that will power the booming data-center industry could end up increasing emissions, at least in the short term. Forty-four years ...