A group of almost 300 petitioners filed a class-action suit against BP Plc and Kenyan authorities seeking compensation for environmental damage caused by disposal of toxic waste at oil-exploration sites in the northern fields of the East Africa nation. They …
Scientists Burn Homes to Figure out How to Best Protect Them in Wildfires
From 2016 to 2025, wildfires in the U.S. on average burned an area the size of Massachusetts each year—2.6 times the average burn area of