China pledges more aggressive climate action in joint statement with U.S.

A man tends to vegetables in a field as emissions rise from nearby cooling towers of a coal-fired power station in Tongling, China, Jan. 16, 2019. Photo: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images GLASGOW, Scotland — China vowed more aggressive steps on emissions Wednesday in a joint declaration with the U.S. — a surprise move that signals an easing of tensions

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The Salton Sea, an Accident of History, Faces a New Water Crisis

BRAWLEY, Calif. — The drought crisis on the Colorado River looms large in California’s Imperial Valley, which produces much of the nation’s lettuce, broccoli and other crops, and now faces water cuts. But those cuts will also be bad news for the environmental and ecological disaster unfolding just to the north, at the shallow, shimmering and long-suffering Salton Sea. “There’s

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