Hotter summers are wreaking havoc across transportation infrastructure. One solution: paint everything white.
Resilience
The additional shade reduces evaporation and stress on the plants, all while generating clean electricity.
Millions of dollars in infrastructure improvements are helping one particularly hard-hit Hampton, New Hampshire, neighborhood cope with the effects of climate change.
At least a half-dozen federal agencies have taken action against the state that has long led the nation in environmental protections.
As summer heat intensifies in Japan, farmers are adapting by working through the night and before dawn.
Global warming is the main driver of this year’s marine heat waves, with ripple effects for ecosystems and extreme weather.
Feds’ new plan doesn’t resolve crop-threatening water shortage and likely will end up in court, two professors reckon.
A majority of coastal wetlands are on track to shift inland or disappear in the coming decades without intervention. That will have major consequences.
Inside futuristic labs, plants are scanned, stressed and analyzed. The aim is to use the results to produce plant strains that can better serve a growing population in a warming world.
Lake Powell and Lake Mead are the nation’s largest reservoirs and provide water to approximately 35 to 40 million people.
A young smooth hammerhead shark discovered in northwestern Spain marks the first confirmed record of a newborn or recently born individual in Galicia and possibly the entire Iberian Peninsula.
No rain, no hops — no hops, no beer. Climate change, heat, and dry farmland are hitting Bavaria’s key crop. Could solar panels save it?
A POLITICO analysis finds that while the administration wiped out hundreds of billions in clean energy tax breaks, spending has been harder to unwind.
The water level at Lake Powell has fallen to a record low in another sign of crisis along the Colorado River.
China has established the first scheduled transit through the northern sea route, but questions remain over the environmental and political risks.
As warming seas push native species to cooler waters farther north, once-rare visitors have become more common.
Climate action does not seem to be a priority for the German government — despite record temperatures, heat-related deaths and drought. Why aren't more people taking to the streets in protest?
Extreme weather has raised the significance of Cop17 talks starting this week on tackling drought and land degradation.
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