climate change
Here's how Americans feel about climate change
The majority of Americans think climate change will kill and displace a large number of people in the U.S. in the next 30 years, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center.
A new study points to a key window of opportunity to save Greenland's ice sheet
Even if the planet warms more than 2 degrees Celsius, the ice sheet can be protected if temperatures cool back down quickly enough.
21 species have been declared extinct, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says
The species, including birds, mussels and a bat, have been moved off the threatened and endangered list. They join 650 other species that have gone extinct in the U.S.
Major U.S. science group lays out a path to smooth the energy transition
The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine says putting equity at the center of climate and energy policy will help speed along necessary fossil fuel emission cuts
It's the warmest September on record thanks to El Niño and, yes, climate change
A new government report finds that September 2023 was the hottest in the agency's 174-year global climate record. Climate change and El Niño are driving the heat.
To rein in climate change, Biden pledges $7 billion to regional 'hydrogen hubs'
President Joe Biden announced billions of federal dollars for the creation of regional hydrogen hubs across the country. Hydrogen could be a climate-friendly alternative to fossil fuels.
Climate change could lead to shifts in fall color peak, App State biologist says
The peak of fall foliage is right on time in the High Country, but climate change could make it harder to predict when it will happen each year.
It's a global climate solution — if it can get past conspiracy theories and NIMBYs
The "15-minute city" is an urban planning concept that aims to increase quality of life and reduce planet-heating pollution. But it faces obstacles, including conspiracy theories.
Her antidote for 'climate grief' and a shrinking Great Salt Lake? Don't look away
Experts refer to "climate grief." Terry Tempest Williams explains what this feels like to someone who has spent their life thinking about our psychic and spiritual connection to the natural world.