With international climate talks failing to make progress fast enough, activists are shifting their emphasis to local battles − in the streets, political arenas and courtrooms.
February 02, 2024
Rising seas and frequent storms are taking their toll on California's iconic public piers and raising questions about the future of the landmarks
February 02, 2024
Oil giant Shell saw profits tumble by nearly a third in 2023 as a result of lower oil and gas prices, which had surged the year before in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
February 01, 2024
Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia has declared a drought emergency for the area of some 6 million people including the city of Barcelona
February 01, 2024
Researchers say the number of western monarch butterflies overwintering in California dropped by 30% last year, likely due to how wet it was
January 30, 2024
The U.N.’s weather agency has confirmed a reading of 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 degrees Fahrenheit) in Sicily two years ago as the hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe
January 30, 2024
Two climate activists have hurled soup at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris and shouted slogans advocating for a sustainable food system
January 28, 2024
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has joined a march in southern England to protest the use of private jets and the expansion of an airport
January 27, 2024
The Biden administration is delaying consideration of new natural gas export terminals in the United States, even as gas shipments to Europe and Asia have soared in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
January 26, 2024
For years, John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua were the two most important people working on global warming
January 26, 2024
Two federal agencies are looking to better protect endangered whales amid a surge in offshore wind farm development
January 25, 2024
As the climate changes and weather warms, the freezing line is shifting, bringing rain and ice to regions not prepared for it.
January 25, 2024
In the age-old battle of man versus nature, nature usually wins
January 25, 2024
Rapid and accelerating groundwater level declines are widespread in dry climates where groundwater is used for irrigation. But some communities have found ways to turn things around.
January 24, 2024
Scientists have spotted previously unknown colonies of emperor penguins in new satellite imagery
January 23, 2024
A study of dozens of city gardens and urban farms across the US and Europe found several ways to boost their benefits, not just for their neighborhoods, but for the planet.
January 22, 2024
President Biden has called for protecting large, old trees from logging, but many of them could be cut while the regulatory process grinds forward.
January 19, 2024
The world can expect fewer severe cold events as average temperatures rise, but people still need to be prepared for wintery blasts.
January 17, 2024
While the U.S. is shivering through bone-chilling cold, most of the rest of world is feeling unusually warm weather
January 16, 2024
A tropical cyclone has caused heavy flooding and at least one death in Mauritius as cars were washed away by surges of water in the Indian Ocean island’s capital city and other places
January 15, 2024
The latest calculations from several science agencies showing Earth obliterated global heat records last year may seem scary
January 12, 2024
The combination of the source of the CO₂ and its end use determines its environmental and economic benefits or consequences.
January 12, 2024
The amount of renewable energy installed around the world last year grew at its fastest rate in the past 25 years
January 11, 2024
A study suggests an ancient species of great ape was likely driven to extinction by environmental changes
January 10, 2024
The fight against climate change requires the mass cooperation of industries, companies, governments and communities around the globe
January 10, 2024
An atmospheric scientist explains how rising temperatures are helping to fuel extreme storms, floods, droughts and devastating wildfires.
January 09, 2024
Azerbaijan’s ecology minister has been named to lead the United Nations’ annual climate talks later this year
January 05, 2024
The U.N. health agency says reported cases of dengue globally increased tenfold over the last generation
December 22, 2023
A state appeals court in Oregon has decided that the rules for a program designed to limit and drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel companies are invalid
December 21, 2023
Dengue is sweeping across the Western Hemisphere in numbers not seen since record-keeping began in 1980 as experts warn that rising temperatures and rapid urbanization are accelerating the pace of infections
December 13, 2023
With the United Nations climate talks wrapping up in Dubai, foundations and other funders pledged at least $2.1 billion in new financing to reduce climate impacts, especially from agriculture
December 12, 2023
Young people have been at the forefront of environmental and climate change movements in recent years: initiatives like school strikes for climate action, protests at United Nations climate talks and around the world, and local clean ups have often been youth-led
December 08, 2023
In Florida, this year has been a tale of two states as far as rainfall totals, with the southeast coast deluged by sometimes-record rainfall and much of the Gulf coast facing a major precipitation deficit
December 08, 2023
The agreement still leaves many unanswered questions, as well as concerns from vulnerable countries about who will qualify, who pays and who is in charge.
December 06, 2023
South of Cape Cod, fiddler crabs and marsh grass have long had a mutually beneficial relationship. It’s a different story in the North, where the harms can ricochet through ecosystems.
December 05, 2023
Vice President Kamala Harris flew to the Middle East to tackle climate change and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, two challenges that have flummoxed White Houses for decades
December 03, 2023
Thousands of people have marched through the center of Brussels in a boisterous rally highlighting the dangers of climate change, as the COP28 climate summit draws to an end in the United Arab Emirates
December 03, 2023
Vice President Kamala Harris has engaged in a quick round of diplomacy with Arab leaders while attending the U.N. climate summit in the United Arab Emirates
December 02, 2023
Leaders of developing nations launched into the second-day of a U.N. climate summit to press rich industrialized countries to share their knowhow to fight global warming and ease the financial burdens they face
December 02, 2023
Climate protesters caused a pair of interruptions totaling 22 minutes during the opening night of a revival of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” at the Metropolitan Opera
December 01, 2023
The world wants more nuclear energy as a means to fight climate change and supply an ever-growing demand for electricity, part of a generational shift in thinking on atomic power
November 30, 2023
Fed Chair Jerome Powell bristles at talk of managing climate change, but the damage it is doing the US economy is hard to ignore, as the latest National Climate Assessment shows.
November 29, 2023
Experts say the world is heading for considerably less warming than projected a decade ago, but that good news is overwhelmed by much more pain from current climate change than scientists anticipated
November 29, 2023
Dubai is preparing to host the COP28 climate talks as world leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden and Pope Francis have signaled they will not be attending the negotiations
November 28, 2023
Negotiating global progress on climate change involves walking a fine line, as a former UN official explains.
November 27, 2023
Earth's climate is in trouble, and the signs could be seen around the world this summer
November 27, 2023
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is visiting Antarctica just before the COP28 climate talks begin in Dubai
November 23, 2023
The oil and gas sector, one of the major emitters of planet-warming gases, will need a rapid and substantial overhaul for the world to avoid even worse extremes fueled by human-caused climate change
November 23, 2023
France, backed by the United States, plans to seek a halt to private financing for coal-based
November 21, 2023
In a move that may soon be replicated elsewhere, the Gila River Indian Community recently signed an agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to put solar panels over a stretch of irrigation canal on their land south of Phoenix
November 20, 2023
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the U.K. is setting up a new science initiative to help develop flood-tolerant rice, disease-resistant wheat and other crops that are more resilient to climate change
November 20, 2023
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its “plant hardiness zone map” for the first time in a decade
November 18, 2023
European Union negotiators have reached a deal to reduce highly polluting methane gas emissions from the energy sector across the 27-nation bloc
November 15, 2023
U.S.
November 13, 2023
Rapidly changing temperatures and sensory environments are challenging the nervous systems of many species. Animals will be forced to evolve to survive.
November 13, 2023
Water taps flow just one day out of three in Mayotte, a French territory off Africa’s eastern coast
November 12, 2023
A wildfire burning in a remote Hawaii rainforest is underscoring a new reality for the normally lush island state just a few months after a devastating blaze on a neighboring island leveled an entire town and killed at least 99 people
November 12, 2023
In the face of human-caused climate change impacting water access and weather patterns in the Willamette Valley — a region known for hops growing — farmers are using all the new strategies they can get to stay afloat and provide for large and small breweries alike
November 11, 2023
French President Emmanuel Macron says melting glaciers pose “an unprecedented challenge for humanity.”
November 10, 2023
With many countries planning fossil fuel production increases and continuing subsidies, negotiators have their work cut out for them when the COP28 climate summit begins.
November 10, 2023
More than 60 countries have said they back a deal spearheaded by the European Union, United States and United Arab Emirates to
November 10, 2023
A project to build a first-of-a-kind small modular nuclear reactor power plant was terminated Wednesday
November 09, 2023
South Pacific leaders are heading to the stunning island of Aitutaki to discuss climate change and other regional concerns
November 09, 2023
Debate over proposed regulations for deep-sea mining will stretch into next year as a U.N. agency that presides over the international seabed has concluded its last meeting of the year
November 08, 2023
Close to 400 people connected to fossil fuel industries in some way or another attended last year’s United Nations’ climate talks in Egypt
November 08, 2023
Global warming plus leverage equals a big mess for companies.
November 06, 2023
The same instruments used to measure earthquakes pick up vibrations as ocean waves put pressure on the sea floor. Four decades of data tell a story about ocean storms.
November 06, 2023
The cancellation of two large offshore wind projects in New Jersey is the latest in a series of setbacks for the nascent U.S. offshore wind industry, jeopardizing President Joe Biden's goal of powering 10 million homes by towering ocean-based turbines by the end of the decade
November 04, 2023
The U.K.'s national forecaster says Storm Ciarán has begun arriving on England's southwestern coast as that country, France and others in western Europe brace for what could be some of the highest wind speeds in the region for decades
November 01, 2023
A new study says that in a little more than five years the world will likely be unable to stay below the internationally agreed temperature limit for global warming if it continues to burn fossil fuels at its current rate
October 30, 2023
Drought
October 27, 2023
China’s Environment Minister Huang Runqiu says his country wants to strengthen cooperation with the U.S. to combat climate change
October 26, 2023
Hurricane Otis unexpectedly turned from mild to monster in record time, and scientists are struggling to figure out what happened
October 25, 2023
Major corporations in water-guzzling industries such as apparel, food and beverage, and tech want to be better stewards of the freshwater resources they use
October 25, 2023
An analysis of past UN conference presidencies suggests the 2023 summit’s agenda would do more to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels.
October 24, 2023
Oil prices are up and markets are tense after the outbreak of war in Gaza
October 24, 2023
Birds nesting in agricultural settings were significantly less likely to successfully raise their young during extreme heat events than birds nesting in forests under the same weather conditions, a new study finds
October 19, 2023
The upcoming United States winter looks likely to be a bit low on snow and extreme cold outbreaks, with federal forecasters predicting the North to get warmer than normal and the South wetter and stormier
October 19, 2023
Federal regulators have approved the expansion of a natural gas pipeline in the Pacific Northwest over the protest of environmental groups and top West Coast officials
October 19, 2023
A study says Atlantic hurricanes are now more than twice as likely as before to rapidly intensify from wimpy minor hurricanes to powerful and catastrophic in just 24 hours
October 19, 2023
Greta Thunberg has been detained by British police alongside other climate activists who gathered outside a central London hotel to disrupt a major oil and gas industry conference
October 17, 2023
Stalled spending on electrical grids worldwide is slowing the rollout of renewable energy and could put efforts to limit climate change at risk if millions of miles of power lines aren't added or refurbished in the next few years
October 17, 2023
Fishing for krill is banned in U.S. waters due to concerns it could impact whales, seals and other animals that feed on the shrimp-like creatures
October 13, 2023
Smoke from forest fires covered large swaths of the Brazilian Amazon as the region endures one of the worst droughts on record, with many rivers at historically low levels
October 12, 2023
Saltwater intrusion is bad for human health, ecosystems, crops and infrastructure. Here’s how seawater can move inland, and why climate change is making this phenomenon more frequent and severe.
October 11, 2023
One of the two biggest proposed carbon dioxide pipeline projects in the Midwest is being put on hold so the company can reevaluate the route
October 10, 2023
California will soon require big businesses to report a wide range of greenhouse gas emissions
October 07, 2023
A new study finds that far more people are in harm's way as they move into high flood zones around the world
October 04, 2023
The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and other amphibians remain in serious trouble
October 04, 2023
The Biden administration directed agencies to consider the cost of greenhouse gas emissions in their future purchasing and budget decisions. An example shows just how much is at stake.
October 03, 2023
The leader of the Columbia Journalism Review says he's leaving that job to work at an organization that encourages news outlets to devote more attention to covering climate change
October 03, 2023
The Emirati president-designate of the upcoming United Nations COP28 climate talks has called on oil and gas companies to be “central to the solution” to fighting climate change as the industry boosts its production to enjoy rising energy prices
October 02, 2023
Demand for critical minerals like nickel and cobalt is surging as climate change hastens a transition to renewable energy, boosting carbon emissions by miners and processors of such materials
October 02, 2023
A storm has delivered one of the wettest days in decades to the New York metropolitan area
September 29, 2023
A second powerful storm in less than a month has hammered parts of central Greece, sweeping away roads, smashing bridges and flooding thousands of homes
September 28, 2023
Restrictions on food exports are spilling over from rice and wheat to other essentials
September 28, 2023
Officials say the Amazon rainforest in Brazil is facing a severe drought that may affect around 500,000 people by the end of the year
September 26, 2023
President Joe Biden has informed leaders from the 18-member Pacific Islands Forum that he has heard their warnings about the impact of climate change on their region
September 25, 2023
Nearly a day after being downgraded from a tropical storm, Ophelia is still threatening much of the Northeast with coastal flooding, life-threatening waves and heavy rain from Washington to New York City
September 24, 2023
Across New York City, civil society groups and large philanthropies meet on the sidelines of the United Nations while world leaders gather at the annual General Assembly
September 22, 2023
While most board games are designed for one person to win, climate change games are about saving the world.
September 20, 2023
There’s a rule of thumb that rainfall intensity increases by about 7% per degree Celsius as temperatures rise. But the increase is much higher in the mountains, scientists found.
September 19, 2023
More than 30 Atlantic countries on four continents have committed to bolster coordination on economic development, environmental protection, maritime issues and more
September 19, 2023
Experts hope the sputtering global public health system and efforts to curb global warming through collaboration can combine to create a better system for handling the problem
September 18, 2023
For two years, it was the coronavirus pandemic
September 18, 2023
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he plans to sign into law a pair of climate-focused bills intended to force major corporations to be more transparent about greenhouse gas emissions and the financial risks stemming from global warming
September 17, 2023
Across the country, more indoor farms are launching or expanding even as others founder
September 17, 2023
Climate scientists say storms like Hurricane Lee could become more common in the future as the Gulf of Maine and other bodies of water rapidly warm
September 16, 2023
The United Auto Workers strike has exposed tensions between President Joe Biden's goals of fighting climate change and supporting unions
September 16, 2023
For a generation and more, Starbucks' throwaway cup has been a cornerstone of consumer society, first in the United States and then globally
September 15, 2023
When water warms, it holds less oxygen, and this can harm aquatic life and degrade water quality. A new study finds that climate change is driving oxygen loss in hundreds of US and European rivers.
September 14, 2023
New York could soon require people selling their homes to disclose whether their properties have been flooded or are at risk for future flooding
September 14, 2023
Hundreds of communities around the country will share more than $1 billion in federal money to help them plant and maintain trees under a federal program that is intended to reduce extreme heat, benefit health and improve access to nature
September 14, 2023
A hurricane scientist explains the conflict between 2023’s abnormally high ocean heat and the storm-disrupting wind shear accompanying El Niño.
August 28, 2023
What rapid intensification means for hurricanes
August 17, 2023
Residents encouraged to stay prepared as Debby moves inland, with flooding concern lasting for days. Brian Abel reports.
August 17, 2023
Inside 'the weave': How Donald Trump's rhetoric has grown darker and windier
China implies Trump could 'discard' Taiwan
Europe will pay a 'big price,' Trump warns on tariffs
Russia's deputy foreign minister meets China's foreign minister in Beijing, Russia's RIA reports
AP-NORC poll finds Democrats and Republicans split on Israel's responsibility for war's escalation
US economy is believed to have grown at a solid pace again last quarter
US economy seen shining on election eve amid robust consumer spending
Volpe slam sparks comeback after Freeman homer, Yanks beat Dodgers 11-4 to force World Series Game 5
Filipino artist connects with his "Lola" through collaborative watercolors
Patriots, Revolution celebrate Halloween with children who have cancer