Climate change is bringing rising sea levels and increased flooding to some cities around the world and drought and water shortages to others. For the 11 million inhabitants of Chennai, Continue Reading
The groundhog might have seen his shadow, but the upcoming blast of cold will have him scurrying to his burrow. Frigid air straight from the Arctic is set to the northern Continue Reading
This week’s winter storm is part of a pattern caused by disturbances to the upper-atmosphere phenomena known as the polar vortex that can send icy blasts from the Arctic into the middle Continue Reading
Construction crews work at the scene where a section of Highway 1 collapsed into the Pacific Ocean near Big Sur, California on Jan. 31, 2021. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Continue Reading
Automakers have abandoned their legal fight for a Trump-era rule blocking California from setting emissions standards as the industry pushes President Joe Biden to accept a compromise with weaker fuel Continue Reading
General Motors’ announcement last week that it will stop making gas-powered cars, trucks and sport utility vehicles by 2035 and become carbon neutral by 2040 is even bolder than it Continue Reading
About three-quarters of fossil-fuel CO₂ pollution comes from cities. At least 48 U.S. cities are under-counting their carbon dioxide pollution by nearly 20%, according to a new study that compares Continue Reading
A May 20 Sentinel-2 satellite image shows the Dutch province of Zeeland, including the Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s biggest seaport in the upper right. Much of the region lies below Continue Reading
It’s one of the last hurrahs in the battle between the Trump administration and career scientists. More than a dozen high-level managers at one of the nation’s top science agencies Continue Reading
What a difference two weeks make. America’s new president has taken admirably little time to address the climate change challenge his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, called the greatest threat to Continue Reading
