Apr 16, 2018 Impacts

On the ground during Cape Town's water crisis

Amid the worst drought on record, the city has threatened to turn off the taps on its nearly 4 million residents. Our correspondent spent a week there while he could still get a shower.

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Impacts

Coastal cities are already suffering from “climate gentrification”

Climate change will sink cities, but first it will make them expensive.

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Global heat wave: an epic TV news fail

This month's scorching heat wave broke records around the world. The Algerian city of Ouargla, with a population of half a million, had a temperature of 124.3 degrees Fahrenheit on July 6, the hottest reliably measured temperature on record in Africa.

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Politics

GOP candidate calls woman 'naive' for asking about climate

Body heat is making Earth warmer, and climate change is caused by the planet's movement toward the sun.

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Impacts

‘‘This was preventable’: Football heat deaths and the rising temperature

Most states rank poorly on heat safety for their high school football players. Too many teens have paid the price, and temperatures are only getting worse.

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Impacts

Tropical storms’ forward movement has slowed, boosting rainfall, flooding

Texans have suffered repeatedly from flooding when slow-moving storm systems from the Gulf stalled instead of passing through rapidly.

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Baltimore plans suit against oil and gas companies for their role in spurring climate change

Baltimore officials are expected to announce Friday a lawsuit against top oil and gas companies for their role in global climate change.

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From our Newsroom

U.S. intel chief warns of devastating cyber threat to U.S. infrastructure.

How are cyber security and environmental health linked? Just look at the health mess – still! – in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria leveled the grid.

Weekend Reader: Handing out medals in the Battle of Pruitt

Whistleblowers, investigative reporters, and NGO's in line for commendations

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Hot temperatures may be bad for brains, even young and healthy ones: Study

"It's really shocking that we found such a significant effect on a population that is usually considered immune to these heat exposures"

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Allegheny County is being sued for spending Clean Air funds on office renovation project

"It's just crazy to think the county would want to divert millions of dollars from these funds for one over-the-top building renovation project."

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On the ground during Cape Town's water crisis

Coastal cities are already suffering from “climate gentrification”

Global heat wave: an epic TV news fail

Scott Pruitt: How the Sierra Club declared war on the EPA head—and won.

GOP candidate calls woman 'naive' for asking about climate

‘‘This was preventable’: Football heat deaths and the rising temperature

Tropical storms’ forward movement has slowed, boosting rainfall, flooding

Baltimore plans suit against oil and gas companies for their role in spurring climate change

U.S. intel chief warns of devastating cyber threat to U.S. infrastructure.

How are cyber security and environmental health linked? Just look at the health mess – still! – in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria leveled the grid.

Weekend Reader: Handing out medals in the Battle of Pruitt

Whistleblowers, investigative reporters, and NGO's in line for commendations

Hot temperatures may be bad for brains, even young and healthy ones: Study

"It's really shocking that we found such a significant effect on a population that is usually considered immune to these heat exposures"

Allegheny County is being sued for spending Clean Air funds on office renovation project

"It's just crazy to think the county would want to divert millions of dollars from these funds for one over-the-top building renovation project."

Trump's Mad Monk departs

Scott Pruitt's ethical W.T.F. sojourn comes to an end

The best environmental (sort-of) summer reading list of 2018

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On the ground during Cape Town's water crisis

How are cyber security and environmental health linked? Just look at the health mess – still! – in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria leveled the grid.

Whistleblowers, investigative reporters, and NGO's in line for commendations

"It's really shocking that we found such a significant effect on a population that is usually considered immune to these heat exposures"

"It's just crazy to think the county would want to divert millions of dollars from these funds for one over-the-top building renovation project."

Scott Pruitt's ethical W.T.F. sojourn comes to an end

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