As historic floods beset several states, a new study finds that warming could make a California “megaflood” more dangerous, and likely, than previously thought.
Climate & Environment
The consequences of inadequate infrastructure maintenance are compounded by climate change, which is accelerating failures with increased flooding, extreme heat and growing storm intensity.
If the world halted planet-heating pollution today, the Greenland ice sheet would still lose more than 3% of its mass in the coming decades. To prevent even worse outcomes, immediate climate action is needed.
The authors of a new study are calling on major banks including JPMorgan Chase and HSBC to end their funding of projects by oil and gas companies across Russia.
A long list of upcoming trials are complicating Bayer’s efforts to escape the costly, ongoing litigation over the health effects of Roundup.
The most significant climate legislation ever enacted by Congress has become law, without the word “climate” in its title. Here’s how it can benefit state and local energy and climate programs.
Origin Park is a unique urban park set in over 600 acres on the north shore of the Ohio River, located on the Indiana side.
Toxic chemicals like PFAS are found in everything from menstrual products, canned foods, receipts, cosmetics, food containers, nonstick pans and many other consumer and industrial products like firefighting foam.
Joe Manchin has once again placed the profits of his donors and his own wallet above the needs of his constituents and the rest of the world by blocking U.S. efforts to bring carbon emissions into line with international targets.
To answer the question of “how hot is too hot?” researchers brought young, healthy men and women into a lab to experience heat stress in a controlled environment.
Flathead Lake is the largest body of freshwater in the western U.S. outside of Alaska. It’s known for its water quality, but the clean and clear lake now faces the threat of pollution from microplastics.
It’s not an exaggeration to call the Southwest’s water shortage a crisis. Declining river levels are compromising electricity generation from hydropower, which affects the power supply for millions of people.
In a political landscape already divided over climate action, the SCOTUS ruling in West Virginia vs. EPA effectively leaves state and local governments to face a global challenge on their own.
Efforts like reducing carbon emissions are important to fight climate change, but cities should also be looking at how they can reinforce roads, stabilize electric grids and use new technologies to build resilient communities.
The court's ruling held the Trump administration's 2020 interim registration of glyphosate to be unlawful because "EPA did not adequately consider whether glyphosate causes cancer and shirked its duties under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)."
Industrial and commercial zones are frequently among the hottest areas, or heat islands, in cities. They typically have fewer trees to cool the air and more pavement and buildings to retain and radiate heat.
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