changing climate

Three months after the first Earth Day was celebrated, a group of 8th grade boys and their camp counselors canoed down the entire Connecticut River. They were known as the Becket Adventurers of 1970, led by Mr. Sidney DuPont, a math teacher at Becket Academy in East Haddam. Sylvester Salcedo, now residing in Orange, was 13 years old and a…

For Earth Day this year, we’re taking a look back at the Becket Adventurers of 1970 and how far the Connecticut River has come in 55 years.

Stormtracker Meteorologist Steve Glazier recently talked with NBC climate reporter Chase Cain to learn firsthand about how we are affecting the conditions on the frozen continent. “Once you’ve been to a place that is truly untouched by people, as untouched as anywhere is on Earth, far more than anywhere else I’ve been, there’s just a deeper appreciation that I...

Several members of the Boys & Girls Club of Milford have put more than a thousand native plants into the ground to combat flooding and erosion.

The Connecticut shoreline is taking a hit more often, year after year, as we feel the impacts of rising sea levels. As a result, a group of students is choosing to do something about it. Several members of the Boys & Girls Club of Milford have put more than a thousand native plants into the ground to combat flooding and erosion. The Charles Wheeler...

Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in the ocean could lock away climate-warming carbon dioxide for centuries or more. Nearly 50 field trials have taken place in the past four years, with startups raising hundreds of millions in early funds. But the field remains rife with debate...

Climate scientists and policymakers are gathering at the United Nations headquarters in New York for the inaugural World Day for Glaciers. The gathering aims to build global cooperation to slow climate change. National climate reporter Chase Cain takes us to some of our planet’s fastest melting glaciers.

Last year was the hottest year on record, the top 10 hottest years were all in the past decade, a report Wednesday said.