Climate Change

Scientists have already linked climate change to more severe weather, rising sea levels, and melting polar ice caps. And now, a new study offers more bad news. Urban rat populations appear to be rising with the mercury. Rats already cost the United States approximately $27 billion each year in damage…

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with El País. Twelve years ago, Vincenzo Amata stumbled upon a plot of flowering trees while wandering the Sicilian countryside. Before long, he found a farmer tending the grove. As Amata asked one question after another, the stranger tugged a mango off…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, squared off with Democratic senators for more than four hours in a contentious confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee. Below are some of the key exchanges from the question-and-answer period: Sen. Bernie Sanders…

Climate change “supercharged” Storm Éowyn and means such extreme weather events are likely to happen “more often”, Friends of the Earth has warned.  Nearly a week after one of the most severe storms in decades, ESB estimates there are still over 100,000 homes without an electricity connection.  On The Hard…

As Los Angeles reels from the loss of lives and homes to the Easton and Palisades fires, scientists are asking why the events of this January have been so catastrophic. Climate change very likely played a part in setting the stage that caused multiple fires to sweep through the region,…

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Earth's oceans are getting warmer at an accelerating rate, researchers find — indicating that climate change is speeding up too. The scientists found that ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years and is likely to accelerate even faster in the future. The researchers published their findings…

Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday Clock” to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has ever been. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists made the annual announcement — which rates how close humanity is to ending —…

Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said on Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday Clock” to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has ever been. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists made the annual announcement — which rates how close humanity is from ending…

Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires, a scientific study found. But the myriad of causes that go into the still smoldering fires are complex, so the level of global warming’s…