Satellite shows how forest CO2 emissions can skyrocket.
During the last El Niño, global average temperatures spiked to more than 1 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels for the first time on record,...
Still in drought, California town seeks new answers to water riddle.
For the vast majority of California, the record-breaking, five-year drought is over, but some cities like Ojai in Ventura County are not so lucky....
Senate Democrats vow to fight drilling in Alaska reserve.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats vowed on Tuesday to fight a measure expected to be slipped into budget legislation that would open Alaska’s...
US regulator hints at changes to plan boosting coal, nuclear plants.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said on Tuesday that a directive from the U.S. energy secretary to prop...
Chocolate production linked to increased deforestation in poor nations
Newly published research focuses on the link between cocoa exports and deforestation in developing nations.
Amazonian hunters deplete wildlife but don’t empty forests
Conservationists can be 'cautiously optimistic' about the prospect of sustainable subsistence hunting by Amazonian communities, according to new research. The research team spent over...
Fighting fires before they spark
With warm, dry summers comes a deadly caveat for the western United States: wildfires. Scientists say the hot, dry climates found west of the...
Trump voters in storm-ravaged county confront climate change.
PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) — The church was empty, except for the piano too heavy for one man to move. It had been 21...
Study reshapes understanding of climate change’s impact on early societies
A new study linking paleoclimatology -- the reconstruction of past global climates -- with historical analysis shows a link between environmental stress and its...
Scientists determine source of world’s largest mud eruption
More than 11 years after the Lusi mud volcano first erupted on the Indonesian island of Java, researchers may have figured out why the...
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