Searing heat across the U.S. Southwest this week boosted electricity demand and prices to record highs and prompted power grid operators in Texas and California to urge energy conservation to Continue Reading
Triple-digit heat has singed Houston earlier than at any other time in a decade, straining the power grid serving the fourth-largest U.S. city in what may be a premonition of an unusually Continue Reading
The U.K. is struggling to put in place adequate measures to deal with rising sea levels and warmer temperatures caused by pollution, the government’s independent adviser on climate matters has Continue Reading
An exceptional outbreak of extreme heat is set to engulf the West for much of the upcoming week, toppling records and bringing conditions that are extremely dangerous for some. Highs Continue Reading
Much of Russia’s Far East is so vast and remote that it’s mostly been left to the bears, wolves and rare breed of tiger that live there. Now the Kremlin wants to Continue Reading
The battle against climate change is relying on the same polluting building block that drove the second Industrial Revolution a century and a half ago. Steel, which transformed everything from Continue Reading
Exit polls on Sunday indicated that Swiss voters appear to have narrowly rejected a proposed “carbon dioxide law” that would have hiked fees and taxes on fuels that produce greenhouse Continue Reading
The Pine Island glacier was already scary. The 160-mile-long river of ice is known as “the weak underbelly” of West Antarctica. It contributes more to sea-level rise than any other Continue Reading
Power lines are shown as California consumers prepare for more possible outages following weekend outages to reduce system strain during a brutal heat wave amid the outbreak of coronavirus disease Continue Reading
A number of Democrats are growing increasingly nervous that the White House could agree to a bipartisan infrastructure deal that scales back key climate-change initiatives, prompting a lobbying push that Continue Reading
