Resilience
Europe's climate extremes have hit new highs — but renewables are now supplying nearly half of the continent's electricity.
Democrats and Republicans pushed back against the administration’s proposal to eliminate NOAA’s research office and monitoring stations across the globe.
By identifying the genes that allow plants to pause growth during stress and restart, we can help ensure crops produce reliable harvests in a changing climate.
A lack of financing is emerging as a major barrier to moving away from fossil fuels, officials and experts said at a global conference in Colombia.
In Florida, majority Black and brown communities face hotter temperatures, rising seas and more damaging storms. One advocacy group is considering other ways of helping them.
A new study finds that more than 70 percent of these protected zones are exposed to high levels of wastewater pollutants, making corals and other marine life more vulnerable to climate change.
Rainmaker says it is the first U.S. commercial cloud-seeding operation to prove it has generated water, in efforts to battle drought in Utah and Idaho.

Across the world, groups of activists, teachers, and psychologists are tackling one of the world’s most daunting problems with laughter, dancing, hugs, and most especially joy.

In California’s Central Valley, Nikiko Masumoto reckons with the future of growing in an increasingly hot world.
Scientists long believed it would take more than a century for animals to return to deforested land. New research shows that’s not always the case.

At a site in South Carolina, researchers burn down test houses to learn how different materials and designs can withstand flames.

Renewables have been touted as the silver bullet to tackling climate change, but can they withstand our warming planet?

Officials at the annual Rio Grande Compact Commission meeting said they expect river flows this year to be among the lowest in history.

In a lakeside village in Kenya's Kisumu County, women were forbidden from fishing — until Rhoda Ongoche Akech defied the stigma.

The Trump administration will pull its emergency levers to head off a major water and power crisis.
The largest restored wetlands in Massachusetts now cover hundreds of acres of what used to be cranberry farms.

Report by Common Wealth argues rest of the world should pay for country’s transition as reparative climate finance.

As climate change outpaces the ability of ecosystems to adapt, scientists are turning to conservation genomics to guide restoration.
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