Freshwater flooding has caused over half of all direct hurricane deaths since 2013. The threat will increase as climate change makes hurricanes wetter and potentially slower-moving.
Like climate change in general, drought acts as a “threat multiplier,” and making the drought-climate connection helps ...
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Scientists say don’t forget about plants. Climate change is endangering tens of thousands of species
Global warming extinctions usually have people picturing the last polar bears or other furry critters disappearing.
A study says the coloring of microplastics can make a big difference in how much they heat up the Earth.
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency removed any mention of fossil fuels — the main driver of global warming — from its popular online page explaining the causes of climate change. Now it ...
Many of our contributors are on the frontlines of climate change and in a prime position to tell stories of resilience and ...
In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we check out an energy efficient greenhouse invented by a Canadian company to ...
Microplastics seem to be everywhere—from our oceans and air, to drinking water and cosmetic products. Researchers have even ...
If you want to understand why we are seeing larger wildfires, severe drought, and higher temperatures, I suggest the mantra ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trees are countering nearly half the urban heating from pavement and buildings in the world’s cities, but ...
If you’re one of the roughly 1.6 million people who took a cruise in Alaska last year, chances are you sailed through the ...
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Climate disasters don’t just destroy homes, they change lives forever. We spoke with cyclone survivors in Zimbabwe
When environmental hazards strike, the damage is usually counted in numbers: how many people died, how many homes were destroyed, how many people were displaced, and how much money it will take to ...
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