The men’s professional tennis tour will introduce mandatory heat-related breaks starting next season, allowing players to pause matches under dangerous conditions.
Impacts
Across many parts of Africa’s Atlantic coastline, the sea is advancing several metres inland each year, destroying homes, infrastructure, farmland and heritage sites.
Annual global insured losses from natural catastrophes are expected to hit $107 billion in 2025, driven by the Los Angeles wildfires and severe convective storms in parts of the United States.
Instead of billion-dollar floodwalls and surge barriers, Hampton, Virginia, is relying on rain gardens, plant-lined storage basins, restored marshes and 3D-printed concrete reefs seeded with oysters.
The scientists at a New Jersey marine station are conducting a sobering experiment: monitoring the destruction of their facility from rising waters.
Climate change threatens to push the world’s infrastructure to a breaking point.
Unless urgent action is taken life will be fundamentally altered for the ancient communities who live on its banks.
A leaked report recommends halving the size of the nation’s disaster response agency, while holding states responsible for a much larger share of response and recovery costs.
A documentary by Las Cruces filmmaker Annie Ersinghaus examines how a decade of oil and gas development in the Permian and San Juan basins has affected the health, environment and rights of nearby New Mexico communities.
Rising temperatures, shifting rainfall and habitat loss are driving medicinal plants toward extinction while altering their healing properties, threatening health care systems relied on by more than 80% of the global population.
As climate-driven wildfires grow more destructive, experts warn that the widespread use of plastic in building materials is worsening fire risks while releasing toxic smoke and contamination that can travel far beyond burn zones.
As climate impacts accelerate faster than expected, philanthropist Kelly Erhart joins The Great Simplification to discuss cutting-edge climate science, looming tipping points, and experimental interventions that could help stabilize Earth’s systems.
A Washington Post investigation found that in one of the planet’s most arid regions, extreme rain and floods have become frequent and deadly.
Flooding worsened by climate change is forcing a community in South Sudan to work constantly to keep water from encroaching on their land.
A Thursday ruling said the Trump administration cannot eliminate the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program without Congress.

Catastrophic US floods linked to hotter climate
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Rising temperatures and extreme rainfall might not seem connected, but they often are. Here's how.
The first climate migrants to leave the remote Pacific island nation of Tuvalu have arrived in Australia, hoping to preserve links to their sinking island home, foreign affairs officials said.
A sweeping new UN report says only a fundamental global shift away from fossil fuels and destructive resource use can prevent catastrophic climate impacts—while delivering trillions in economic benefits within decades.
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