Natural disasters: Rich leave, poor stay and suffer.
Every year, major earthquakes, floods and hurricanes occur. These natural disasters disrupt daily life and, in the worst cases, cause devastation. Events such as...
Increased tropical zone will lead to droughts, heatwaves.
The expanding tropical zone could impact Australia.THE Earth’s waistline is bulging and the tropical atmosphere is expanding towards Australia, which could have disastrous consequences....
Rendering plant overwhelmed by dead cows, causing crisis for farmers.
Farmers in Fresno, Kings and Tulare counties are disposing of hundreds of cows that died in the June heat wave, overwhelming the region’s largest...
Aging oil pipeline under the Great lLkes should be closed, michigan AG saysM.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette called for a deadline to close a controversial portion of an oil pipeline that runs along the bottom of the...
Tales of climate change across the West.
Virginia and Peter Sargent grew up in the country. So they know how much farmers, hunters, and fishermen depend on the natural world. But...
Climate change played a role in Europe's scorching June: Study.
Man-made climate change contributed to scorching heat across Western Europe this month, when Portugal suffered deadly forest fires and many nations sweltered under...
Winter's not coming: Game of Thrones' Jon Snow worried over lack of it.
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Kit Harington describes a ‘very sad irony’ as the HBO show films in locations where ice is shrinking, even as his character fears...
In the American South, an inequity of diseases.
On a muggy day in October 2009, Catherine Flowers stepped down the stairs behind a mobile home in Lowndes County, Alabama to find a...
These experts say we have until 2020 to get climate change under control. And...
Smokestacks from the coal-fired Plant Scherer are silhouetted against the sky in Juliette, Ga., on June 3. (Branden Camp/AP)A group of prominent scientists,...
Running dry: Seeking solutions to South Asia’s looming water crisis.
India and Pakistan are among the most heavily irrigated nations on earth, producing enough wheat, corn, and other crops to feed their combined populations...
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