Grist reports that climate change is loading rice—the beloved grain that feeds more than half of the world's population—with increasing amounts of arsenic, creating a "scary" health burden.
June 13, 2025
New data raises questions about how much the Earth has warmed
December 15, 2025
Dense toxic smog has blanketed New Delhi, pushing air pollution levels to their worst levels in weeks and disrupting travel
December 15, 2025
Nearly a third of all countries worldwide have pledged to phase out their unabated coal-burning power. But China and India are still adding coal plants – for now.
November 14, 2025
The Trump administration has delayed a decision on whether to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies indefinitely
December 12, 2025
A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the Trump administration to restore billions in canceled FEMA disaster mitigation funding
December 12, 2025
A new lawsuit seeks to overturn the recent approval of an exploratory drilling program in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska
December 11, 2025
The Trump administration has made several efforts to support the coal industry, but even if coal were free, the economics aren’t in its favor.
December 11, 2025
A powerful atmospheric river has drenched Washington state with nearly 5 trillion gallons of rain over the past week
December 10, 2025
Ocean temperatures warmed by human-caused climate change fed the intense rainfall that triggered deadly floods and landslides across Asia in recent weeks, according to an analysis released Wednesday
December 10, 2025
Trump administration taps election fraud crusader to help lead FEMA
December 10, 2025
Rain has finally fallen in Iran's capital after months of drought
December 10, 2025
Southeast Asia is embracing the embattled offshore wind industry as it reels from U.S. President Donald Trump’s rejection of renewable energy
December 10, 2025
Trump admin is ‘trying to put out a fire they started’ at Weather Service as a cold, snowy winter looms
December 09, 2025
Industry leaders have objected to reversals of long-standing policies, and market forces are moving against the Trump administration’s hopes.
December 09, 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has defended U_S_ military strikes on alleged drug cartel boats, saying President Donald Trump has the right to take military action “as he sees fit.”
December 06, 2025
How a cocktail of rogue storms and climate chaos unleashed deadly flooding across Asia
December 06, 2025
President Donald Trump on Wednesday proposed slashing fuel economy standards that former President Joe Biden had finalized last year, in a push to
December 03, 2025
Trump announces plan to rescind Biden-era fuel-economy standards for vehicles
December 03, 2025
Climate change will make you poorer, according to a new report
April 17, 2024
The best hurricane forecasts of 2025 came from an AI model
December 03, 2025
Southeast Asia has been hit by unusually severe floods this year, with late storms killing more than 1,400 people and leaving hundreds missing across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand
December 03, 2025
More than 1,100 killed as deadly storms cause flooding and landslides across Asia
November 30, 2025
Taps may run dry in this country, where the water crisis is so severe it can be seen from space
December 01, 2025
The Moss Landing battery fire became an unintended experiment – showing how burning lithium-ion cells scattered nickel, cobalt and manganese over a protected marsh.
December 01, 2025
A blast of frigid air from Canada is expected to dump up to a foot of snow along a stretch extending from Michigan to central New England and put more than 16 million
December 01, 2025
Here’s what snow forecasters are watching, and why skiers and other snow lovers shouldn’t lose hope.
December 01, 2025
Indonesian Reliwati Siregar gestured angrily at deforestation around her home on the island of Sumatra, where landslides and floods
December 02, 2025
How extreme weather is making plastic pollution more mobile, more persistent and more hazardous
November 27, 2025
Post-Thanksgiving cross-country winter storm could wreck travel as it brings the most widespread snow of the season
November 26, 2025
Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva fought back tears as global diplomats applauded her for several minutes on Saturday in the closing plenary of
November 26, 2025
The people who manage America’s aquifers, wetlands, shorelines and recreation areas rely on federal science as they face new and rising risks in a changing climate.
November 24, 2025
Born of crisis but torn by years of tensions among its members, the Group of 20 major economies scored a rare victory this weekend for
November 24, 2025
Heavy rains have caused deadly flooding and landslides in Southeast Asia
November 24, 2025
In the final fractious hours of the U.N. climate summit in Brazil, when a deal to advance the world's fight against global warming was slipping out of
November 23, 2025
This year's U.N. climate change summit ended with a tenuous compromise for a deal that skipped over most countries' key demands but for one: committing wealthy
November 23, 2025
Group of 20 leaders adopted a declaration addressing the climate crisis and other global challenges on
November 22, 2025
A G20 draft leaders' declaration includes references to "climate change" in defiance of U.S. objections, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.
November 21, 2025
Many of the activists, scientists and government leaders at United Nations climate talks underway in Brazil have a beef: They want more to be done to transform the world’s food system
November 21, 2025
World leaders are arriving for a historic first Group of 20 summit in Africa that aims to put the problems of poor countries at the top of the global agenda
November 21, 2025
The Trump administration is proposing new oil drilling off the California and Florida coasts for the first time in decades, as President Donald Trump seeks to expand U.S. oil production that is already leading the world
November 20, 2025
Fire disrupted United Nations climate talks with just two scheduled days left and negotiators yet to announce any major agreements
November 20, 2025
The EU is launching a service to measure the role climate change is playing in extreme weather events like heatwaves and extreme rain, and
November 20, 2025
A new study finds that thousands of hazardous sites across the U.S. are at risk of flooding due to sea level rise that could pose public health threats to neighboring communities
November 20, 2025
Brazil failed to land an early COP30 climate deal on Wednesday, though President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva remained upbeat about the
November 19, 2025
A polar vortex disruption is on the way, and its magnitude is almost unheard of in November
November 19, 2025
A Belgian farmer is taking TotalEnergies to court, arguing the company should pay for climate change damage
November 19, 2025
A federal appeals court has paused a California law that requires companies that do business in the state and make more than $500 million a year to report how climate change could hurt them financially
November 18, 2025
Brazil said on Tuesday it still expects to land a deal on some of the most contentious issues at the COP30 climate
November 18, 2025
Surging demand for high-quality
November 18, 2025
An existential question hangs over this year's COP30 summit in Brazil: what are the annual U.N. climate negotiations
November 18, 2025
The prime minister of tiny Tuvalu said on Tuesday that his country treasures its "special relationship" with Taiwan, making a visit to Taipei at a time of growing
November 18, 2025
Heavy rain has swept central Vietnam, triggering landslides and floods, killing at least seven people, injuring dozens, and stranding thousands
November 17, 2025
Iran turns to cloud-seeding as historic drought causes driest fall in 50 years
November 16, 2025
Thousands of climate protesters marched through the Brazilian city of Belem on Saturday in a noisy, diverse and peaceful display to demand
November 15, 2025
Thousands of demonstrators marched in Belem, Brazil, at the halfway point of United Nations climate talks to demand progress from negotiators on the problem of climate change — among other causes
November 15, 2025
Tariffs are coming for your holiday wine
November 15, 2025
With the United States absent from the U.N. annual international climate summit for the first time in three decades, China is
November 15, 2025
Photo essay: See here "The fire started on my birthday," says taxi driver Simon Rodriguez, hauling
November 14, 2025
A Canadian anti-whaling activist who has dodged arrest in Japan for more than a decade vowed at COP30 in Brazil to continue fighting for marine
November 13, 2025
While Trump scraps US climate policies, companies still face pressure from states, other countries and their customers. That pressure trickles down supply chains.
November 13, 2025
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November 13, 2025
Australia’s conservative Liberal Party on Thursday walked away from its policy to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and pledged instead to prioritise bringing down
November 13, 2025
Scientists report that emissions from fossil fuels rose by 1.1% in 2025, marking the second consecutive year of a small increase
November 13, 2025
From extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses, climate change is making people sicker and more vulnerable to disease. Health scientists explain what individuals and governments can do about it.
November 12, 2025
The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago
November 09, 2025
Smartphones arrived just before the US fertility rate plunged. One study says it’s a direct cause
As UFOs go mainstream, the jury is out on what the existence of alien life might mean for religion
Sacramento hopes to make its pitch for expansion after the Athletics leave for Las Vegas
A key US government surveillance program is set to expire. A look at what that means
Global equity funds draw third weekly inflow as investors buy the dip
Victims' families mark Air India crash anniversary with prayers and tributes
Tarik Skubal, the Cleveland Browns and other athletes credit a tiny new scope for faster recoveries