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Lead Product Manager Sara Brinton was a graduate student at Brown University studying some of the biggest challenges facing the real estate industry when she joined Realtor.com. “I was excited to leverage my expertise in fair housing and climate change to make real estate more equitable and sustainable,” says Sara. …

SAPPORO, Japan -- So much has been invested in clean energy that there can be no rolling back of moves to end carbon emissions, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said Sunday. Kerry noted that if countries deliver on promises to phase out polluting fossil fuels, the world can limit average…

Iraqi archaeological marvels that have survived millennia and the ravages of war now face a modern threat: being blasted and slowly buried by sandstorms linked to climate change. Ancient Babylonian treasures, painstakingly unearthed, are slowly disappearing again under wind-blown sand in a land parched by rising heat and prolonged droughts.…

A man walks on a submerged street after torrential rainfall in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on April 13. Photo: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images About one in three Americans reported in a recent Gallup poll that they have personally experienced an extreme weather event within the last two years. Why it…

For years, residents of the small fishing town of Saint-Louis in Senegal have been struggling. Climate change, foreign industrial trawlers and the COVID-19 pandemic have made it hard to earn a living on the water. When officials announced a new gas project off the coast in 2015, the community was…

Updated April 14, 2023 at 1:17 PM Published April 14, 2023 at 9:14 AM WASHINGTON - Dry spells known as flash droughts, with a surprisingly rapid onset and often devastating impact, are becoming more frequent as human activity warms the planet, according to a study published on Thursday. Though droughts…

Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled against an injunction that was filed to revive the country’s Climate Change Fund, which was designed to channel public and private funding into actions to fight climate change.The fund helped support local and national projects for reducing deforestation rates, restoring degraded landscapes, developing sustainable agricultural practices…

'Flash droughts' have become more frequent due to human-caused climate change and this trend is predicted to accelerate in a warmer future, according to research published today involving the University of Southampton. The research published in Science shows that flash droughts, which start and develop rapidly, are becoming 'the new…

A new project is reintroducing key species into Europe’s forests to help restore natural balance and boost the ability of woodlands to store carbon. But there are concerns that unless such reintroductions are made on a much wider, landscape scale, they will have little positive impact in a region so…