Plantations in Assam produce more than half of India's tea. But rising heat is hurting yields, workers are increasingly leaving for more stable work, and producers are feeling the squeeze of stagnant tea prices.
Resilience
The Department of Energy’s moonshot funding program is working. President Trump seems inclined to keep it.
WyoFile joined a coalition of nonprofit newsrooms in six Western states to examine how the changes are impacting our ability to fight fires amid increasingly destructive conditions.
A study published in Nature Cities, suggests that forests placed strategically outside urban cores can lower temperatures across much of a city.
Alaska's North Slope tundra may look desolate, but crouch down and you'll see a lush jungle. It's just so small, it's almost all below your knee.
The Dama Solar farm in Romania could produce enough power for almost one million people.
As climate change makes cities around the world unlivable, one city is using art and new infrastructure to adapt.
There have been numerous floods in the U.S. this summer, and more are predicted for the fall and winter.
Crustaceans are the subject of tests to see if alkalis added to seawater, so it absorbs more carbon dioxide, harm marine life. But Trump’s halt to funding threatens to scupper the research.
Years of negotiations between Colorado and six other Colorado River Basin states have failed to produce a new agreement on water allocations.
Hotter summers are wreaking havoc across transportation infrastructure. One solution: paint everything white.
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.
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