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The economic costs of California wildfires in 2018 totaled more than $150 billion (about 0.7 percent of the entire U.S.[…]

Climate change could lead to irreversible sea level rise as temperatures continue to rise and the Greenland ice sheet continues[…]

Weather systems responsible for transporting moisture from the tropics to temperate regions in the Southern Hemisphere have been gradually shifting[…]

Growing use of nitrogen fertilizers in the production of food worldwide is increasing atmospheric concentrations of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse[…]

stock image Sag River emptying into Prudhoe Bay, Beaufort Sea  Increased heat from Arctic rivers is melting sea ice in[…]

Climate change may be causing hurricanes to weaken more slowly and remain destructive for longer. One study showed that 50[…]

Increased heat from Arctic rivers is melting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean and warming the atmosphere. River heat is[…]

Last summer oil and gas-industry groups lobbied to overturn federal rules on natural gas leaks, arguing they had emissions under[…]

Inactive oil and gas wells are leaking methane and other pollutants. An enormous backlog of them has built up in[…]

In 2020 roughly a quarter of Brazil’s vast Pantanal wetland, one of the planet’s most biodiverse places, has burned in[…]