Resilience

Researchers warn against oversimplifying climate change’s role in conflict. But some conditions can increase the likelihood of violence, a new study finds.

A new Wilmington, NC chapter of the Climate Reality Project aims to teach people on how to engage their neighbors and officials on important environmental issues.

Indigenous organizations from across the Amazon and Latin America have sent a letter to the United Nations warning that organized crime — including illegal mining, drug trafficking and logging — is driving violence and environmental destruction in Indigenous territories.

Students who attend schools near data centers are more likely to see their math performance decline than those who don’t.

A stopgap proposal from Arizona, California and Nevada is unlikely to break the stalemate in negotiations over the future of the river.
Ten people. Eight weeks. Three thousand feet to pierce a fast-melting Antarctic glacier.
FEMA slowed grants intended to help states such as California and Colorado prepare for and prevent wildfires, a Washington Post analysis shows.

Record flooding pushed Michigan's dams to the brink of disaster and showed just how unprepared U.S. infrastructure is for a warming world.

Residents of the Northern Mariana Islands are no strangers to tropical cyclones, but climate change is supercharging storms and disrupting education on the islands.

Former Vice President Al Gore said he is encouraged by the growing international adoption of renewable energy sources.
As the Green River runs high out of Flaming Gorge Reservoir, so is anxiety in the tiny Utah town of Manila.

Colorado is “light years” ahead in fire preparedness compared with a decade ago, but it has also faced its largest and most destructive wildfires in that time.

Dozens of bills were rejected over nearly 60 years; some measures would have prohibited youth camps and new construction in high-risk flood areas.

A free, solar-powered charging station, or “solinera” as it’s known, has opened in Cuba’s central region.

Amid immigration raids, chemical spills, massive floods and costly healthcare, less-affluent residents of one of the most diverse US cities struggle to pull through.

Seven of the top 11 highest-volume precipitation events over the past 77 years have occurred just in the past 10 years.

The drought in New Hampshire is emblematic of the effects of climate change on weather patterns in the Northeast, experts say.

Louisiana’s cultural hotspot could be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century, authors say.

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