Extreme weather displaced record number in first half of 2019
Natural disasters forced 7 million people to be displaced in the first half of this year.
PG&E reaches $11 billion deal with California wildfire insurers
The utility said in a statement the tentative agreement covers 85% of the insurance claims from fires that included the one that decimated the town of Paradise and killed 86 people.
This clean energy invention runs on nothing but cold, night air
A new thermoelectric generator could bring light to one billion people who live without power...if market forces will let it.
The hotter the planet grows, the less children are learning
Every 1-degree-Fahrenheit increase in average temperature reduces student learning by 1 percent, a study finds.
In an effort to boost production of oil and natural gas, the Trump administration is planning to relax rules regarding the release of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas. William Brangham reports and talks to The Wall Street Journal’s Timothy…
NASA researchers want to know whether the melting is being caused more by warm air or warm seawater. The answer could be crucial to Earth's future.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency eliminated the Obama-era Clean Power Plan and replaced it with a new rule that gives states more leeway in deciding required upgrades for coal-fired power plants.
Hotter oceans are killing corals, not just bleaching them. Then their reef corpses dissolve.
A new United Nations report examines how global warming and land interact in a vicious cycle. Human-caused climate change is dramatically degrading the land, while the way people use the land is making global warming worse.
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