The scale of climate change can be difficult to comprehend. Many diverse environmental issues - pollution, warming oceans, and increasing temperatures - are combining to make the future look, well, less bright.
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency downplayed the threats posed by climate change during a Wednesday interview with CBS News, saying that most of its effects are "50 to 75 years out."
The latest report from the United Nations' scientific panel on climate change said the world will reach an environmental crisis by 2040 if immediate action isn't taken to slow global warming.
According to a Centro de Periodismo Investigativo report on Tuesday, an uptick in gender violence in post-Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico has shaken the region.
