With global warming making people increasingly dependent on air conditioning, power failures from hurricanes followed by heat waves are creating increasingly hazardous risks to health.
Two factors are driving the decline of the Great Salt Lake: water use and less precipitation due to climate change. Saving the lake may require 260 billion gallons of water.
As climate change intensifies, people around the world are learning firsthand how dangerous high temperatures can be, and prolonged heat becomes even more dangerous, and deadly, when paired with high humidity.
Federal regulators have proposed a rule that would loosen restrictions on the storage of toxic waste that is created by burning coal to produce electricity, a move that critics say favors industry interests over public health.
