If passed, the bill’s $369 billion energy and climate provisions could put the U.S. on a path to cut climate pollution 31% to 44% below 2005 levels in 2030. Not everything is swell,
The extra mice in your house this winter may not entirely be the result of you not cleaning your kitchen thoroughly, the AP reports. As climate change makes winters warmer, white-footed mouse
A paper published in Science finds a unique group of polar bears living on the southeast coast of Greenland have found a way to cope with dwindling sea ice by hunting on
Since the beginning of time, human beings and other living creatures have evolved to adapt to their ever-changing environments. One of the main drivers of changes in body size for the past
Climate change made India and Pakistan's punishing March and April heatwave at least 30 times more likely, a study from World Weather Attribution finds. “This is a sign of things to come,”
Rising temperatures, especially overnight, is reducing the amount of sleep people get worldwide, new research shows. The global study published in One Earth tracked the sleep of 47,000 people in 68 countries
More than 85% of Maine moose calves tracked by researchers last year died before their first birthday because of surging winter tick populations. Solid cold and sustained snow cover kill off winter
Climate change probably made the brutal, weeks-long heatwave blanketing northwest India and Pakistan 100 times more likely, the UK Met Office said Wednesday. The attribution study found — without climate change —
Climate change doubled the likelihood of the catastrophic rains and resulting flooding that killed at least 448 people in eastern South Africa in April, an analysis released this morning by World Weather
The Minnesota attorney general sued Exxon Mobil, the American Petroleum Institute, and Koch Industries on Wednesday for violating state laws barring consumer fraud, deceptive trade practices and false advertising. “We’re here suing
Extreme heat over 110°F in India and Pakistan continues to shatter records, threaten human health, cause landfills to combust, threaten power outages, and imperil Indian wheat crops struggling to make up for
Climate change will cause thousands of new viruses to spread between animal species, increasing the risk that new diseases will infect humans, potentially setting off another pandemic, a study published Thursday in
In August 2020, at the end of an unusually hot and dry summer, wildfires spread across Northern California. The LNU Lightning Complex fires burned through more than 360,000 acres over the course
Climate change made the deadly, record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season dump more rain than it would have otherwise, a study published Tuesday in Nature Communications found. Across the season's vocabulary-depleting 30 named
Nearly 350 million people across Africa — a quarter of the continent's people — face severe food insecurity as soaring wheat prices follow failed rains, COVID-19, and desert locusts, the International Committee
On September 8, 2020, Ashley Diaz and her two small children were asleep in their beds when Diaz heard a knock on the door. It was a neighbor warning them about an
For Americans on the fence about the need to address climate change despite deadly heatwaves, horrific wildfires, destructive hurricanes, and parching drought, maybe ticks and mosquitos will be the last straws. Climate
Esther McCant, a doula in Miami, has visited clients in sweltering apartments without air conditioning. She has seen them exhausted from long days working on their feet in the South Florida heat.
Erratic and generally lessening snowfall in mountains across the American West is complicating controlled winter burns crucial for managing wildfires year-round, the AP reports. Snow cover enables small crews to conduct controlled
Climate change disproportionately harms women, and in particular trans women and women of color, Atmos reports. “At the end of the day, the histories, the systems that have created the climate change