Climate change
Longer droughts in Zimbabwe take a toll on wildlife and cause more frequent clashes with people
In Zimbabwe, rains are finally bringing relief to its second-largest national park. But elsewhere in the wildlife-rich country, authorities say climate change-induced drought is deadly for animals and plants.
How researchers, farmers and brewers want to safeguard beer against climate change
In the face of human-caused climate change impacting water access and weather patterns in the Willamette Valley — a region known for hops growing — farmers are using all the new strategies they can get to stay afloat and provide for large and small breweries alike.
Judge in Alaska upholds Biden administration’s approval of the massive Willow oil-drilling project
A federal judge has upheld the Biden administration’s approval of the Willow oil-drilling project on Alaska’s remote North Slope, a massive project that drew the ire of environmentalists who accused the president of backpedaling on his pledge to combat climate change.
Prominent German leftist to launch a new party that could eat into far-right’s support
A prominent German leftist politician has launched plans to form a new party that some observers think could take votes away from the far-right Alternative for Germany.
Slovakia president rejects nomination of opponent of climate change policy as environment minister
Slovakia’s president says she is postponing the appointment of a new Cabinet following last month’s parliamentary election because she cannot accept the nomination of a person who doesn’t believe in the threat of climate change as environment minister.
IMF and World Bank are urged to boost funding for African nations facing conflict and climate change
Most of the population in conflict-affected countries like Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad and northern Nigeria depends on climate-vulnerable agriculture.
Whales and dolphins in American waters are losing food and habitat to climate change, US study says
A first-of-its-kind assessment says whales, dolphins and seals living in U.S. waters face major threats from the warming ocean temperatures, rising sea levels and decreasing sea ice associated with climate change.
Millions of children are displaced due to extreme weather events. Climate change will make it worse
A United Nations report says that storms, fires and other extreme weather events led to more than 43 million displacements involving children between 2016 and 2021.
Meet this year’s MacArthur ‘genius grant’ recipients, including a hula master and the poet laureate
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced its 2023 class of fellows, often known as recipients of the “genius grant.”
Columbia Journalism Review editor leaving to encourage news outlets to devote more time to climate
The leader of the Columbia Journalism Review says he’s leaving that job to work at an organization that encourages news outlets to devote more attention to covering climate change.
Montana is appealing a landmark climate change ruling that favored youth plaintiffs
The office of Montana’s Republican attorney general is appealing a landmark climate change ruling in which a judge said state agencies aren’t doing enough to protect 16 young plaintiffs from harm caused by global warming.
Kronthaler’s carnival: Westwood’s legacy finds its maverick heir in Paris
At Paris Fashion Week, Andreas Kronthaler rejuvenated Vivienne Westwood’s legacy, intertwining it with his unique style.
Biden backs new offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Scaled-back plan disappoints all sides
President Joe Biden’s administration has proposed up to three oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico over the next five years but none in Alaska.
Food prices are rising as countries limit exports. Blame climate change, El Nino and Russia’s war
Restrictions on food exports are spilling over from rice and wheat to other essentials. This ranges from Tanzania’s limits on shipping onions to its neighbors and Morocco’s restrictions on tomatoes to ongoing bans of some kinds of rice in Asia.
After summer’s extreme weather, more Americans see climate change as a culprit, AP-NORC poll shows
More Americans believe they’ve personally felt the impact of climate change because of recent extreme weather, including a summer that brought dangerous heat for much of the United States.
After climate summit, California Gov. Gavin Newsom faces key decisions to reduce emissions back home
The California Legislature sent a wide range of bills to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk this year to help the state mitigate and adapt to climate change.
Six young activists devote years to climate fight with 32 governments. Now comes their day in court
Six Portuguese children and young adults are set to take 32 European governments to court Wednesday for what they say is a failure to adequately address human-caused climate change in a violation of their human rights.
Biologists in slow and steady race to help North America’s largest and rarest tortoise species
U.S. wildlife officials have finalized an agreement with Ted Turner’s Endangered Species Fund regarding the release of more Bolson tortoises on the media mogul’s Armendaris Ranch in central New Mexico.
Governments and individuals debate: Are mandates needed to reach climate change targets?
Governments, organizations and businesses have set ambitious goals to combat climate change. But it is far from clear that those goals can be met without forcing people to do -- or not do -- certain things.
Climate change made storm that devastated Libya far more likely and intense, scientists say
Scientists say climate change made the devastating storm along the Libyan coast up to 50 times more likely and 50% more intense.
Cyclone that devastated Libya is latest extreme event with some hallmarks of climate change
Scientists say the Mediterranean storm that dumped torrential rain on the Libyan coast is just the latest extreme weather event to carry some hallmarks of climate change.
Puerto Rico’s public schools clamor for air conditioning to get relief from record-breaking heat
Students and teachers are sweltering in public schools across Puerto Rico and demanding that the government install air conditioners as the U.S.
Africa Climate Summit links ‘unfair’ debt burden with calls to make continent’s green assets pay off
The host of the first Africa Climate Summit says climate change is “relentlessly eating away” at Africa’s economic progress and it’s time to have a global conversation about a carbon tax on polluters.
Maine’s puffin colonies recovering in the face of climate change
Scientists who monitor seabirds said Atlantic puffins had their second consecutive rebound year for fledging chicks after suffering a bad 2021.
Workers exposed to extreme heat have no consistent protection in the US
State and federal agencies are scrambling to find measures to combat what experts call one of the harshest and most neglected effects of climate change in the U.S.: rising heat deaths and injuries of people who work in triple-digit temperatures.
Study reveals how much carbon damage would cost corporations if they paid for their emissions
Economists calculate that the world’s corporations produce so much climate change pollution, it could eat up about 44% of their profits if they had to pay damages for what they put out.
Presidential debate shows how GOP candidates are struggling to address concerns about climate change
The Republican Party’s presidential candidates are struggling to address growing concerns about climate change.
Climate change may force more farmers and ranchers to consider irrigation — at a steep cost
As brutal heat stretches across much of the United States, some farmers may be watching their crops grow parched.
Climate change doubled chance of weather conditions that led to record Quebec fires, researchers say
A new analysis finds that climate change more than doubled the chances of the hot, dry weather that helped fuel the unprecedented wildfire season in eastern Canada.
As glaciers melt, a new study seeks protection of ecosystems that emerge in their place
A new scientific study suggests the world should start preparing to protect the ecosystems that emerge from under the disappearing ice, as a warming planet is inevitably causing glaciers to melt.
Young environmentalists won a landmark climate change ruling in Montana. Will it change anything?
Legal observers called it a landmark victory for the 16 plaintiffs: It marks the first time a court in the U.S. has declared that a government has a constitutional duty to protect people from climate change.