The climate crisis could increase incursions of Aedes aegypti, which can transmit Zika virus and dengue, experts say.
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The rush to blame climate change for every disaster may be making it harder to explain what is actually happening.
From the Southwest to the Jersey shore, climate change is altering the traditions and norms that have defined summer for generations.
Iowa Environmental Council’s 2026 report on Iowa’s electric generation shows a “reversal” in progress toward renewable sources.
Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee is the first Democrat targeted by the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition, which has notched wins against clean energy foes in Republican primaries.
Crop-residue burning contributes substantially to black carbon levels in North India, especially during the post-monsoon season.
Colorado wildlife managers have failed to be forthright in citing a key reason for adverse conditions for bears: global warming.
Europe, the fastest warming continent, is hotter and drier than ever — and it is having an impact on the Grand Tour season
Local communities in Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan are turning to the Indigenous practice of glacier grafting as water shortages take hold.
The current El Nino could end up being the strongest since records began 40 years ago, the UN warns. It says the phenomenon is being "supersized," thanks to exceptionally warm temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
The world’s second-largest oil consumer cut its use by 9 percent as the Iran war crimped supply. The drop could accelerate China’s pivot away from the fossil fuel.
Fueled by climate change and a strengthening El Niño, record-setting marine heat waves are gripping oceans worldwide and wrecking havoc on sea life.
Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis.
The country’s water crisis threatens drinking water and hydropower and worsens the risk of destructive fires.
It’s been one disaster after another. And it may pale in comparison to what’s coming.
Spanish scientists and researchers from Europe and the U.S. compiled data from 46 oceanographic campaigns carried out between 1976 and 2018 to study changes in the Mediterranean and the impact of climate change.

Inside the passage of America’s biggest climate law
02 September
In a new memoir, author Leah Stokes takes readers behind the scenes of U.S. democracy — and shows how people can still have an outsize impact by working together.
Governor Gavin Newsom’s new carbon market rules threatened money for certain climate programs. He struck a deal to continue funding for transit and water projects.
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