climate change

In the wake of heat waves, global warming, forest fires, storms, droughts and a rising number of hurricanes, the U.N. weather agency is warning that the number of people who need international humanitarian help could rise 50% by 2030 compared to the 108 million who needed it in 2018

An icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international effort to study the high Arctic has returned to its home port in Germany

Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris covered a number of topics on the vice presidential debate stage. We took a closer look at both candidates’ positions on three of them: preexisting conditions, abortion and fracking.

In the 2020 election, according to the Pew Research Center, Generation Z will account for 1 in 10 eligible voters, and combined with the millennial vote, will make up nearly forty percent of the electorate in the upcoming election.

Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., discussed how their respective administrations would combat climate change. Pence was specifically asked if he believed climate change was real, and Harris was asked if she supported the Green New Deal.

President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden faced off on Tuesday for the first presidential debate of the 2020 election. Here are some of the key moments you may have missed.

President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden debate their record, talk about how they have earned the votes of Americans in the 2020 election and spar on climate change.

In a year of cataclysm, some world leaders at this week’s annual United Nations meeting are taking the long view

Some parts of the U.S. will have an easier time coping with climate change than others. A New York Times reporter talked to a climate adaptation expert who has decided that Duluth, Minnesota, may be the “most climate-proof city” in America and a prime destination for future “climate migrants.”

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong Monday announced a lawsuit filed against ExxonMobil alleging the oil giant has known for decades that burning fossil fuels contributes to climate change, but that the company deceived the public about the connection. Tong claims the company has known since the 1950s that burning fossil fuels contributed to global warming. “ExxonMobil sold oil and gas,…

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said Monday ExxonMobil has known for decades that its fossil fuel products are contributing to climate change.

Facebook announced Tuesday that it is launching a science information center to provide users with facts and resources around the climate crisis, NBC News reports.

President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden are focusing the presidential campaign on the wildfire-scorched West Coast, with Trump meeting fire officials in California on Monday while Biden declared the fires underscore an urgent need to address climate change. The dueling events marked a stark moment on the campaign trail, where the two candidates’ dramatically contrasting outlooks on climate change…

Scientists say an enormous chunk of Greenland’s ice cap, estimated to be about 110 square kilometers (42.3 square miles), has broken off in the far northeastern Arctic

During a wildfires briefing Monday, the California Secretary for Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot was alerting President Donald Trump to record heat in California due to climate change, when President Donald Trump said, “It’ll start getting cooler.” Crowfoot replied, “I wish science agreed with you.” Trump responded, “Well, I don’t think science knows actually.”

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Monday called President Donald Trump a “climate arsonist” and warned that four more years of Trump’s climate change denial will expose suburbs to more devastating wildfires.

California Governor Gavin Newsom stressed the importance of battling climate change immediately. “What we’re experiencing right here is coming to every community all across the United States of America unless we get our act together on climate change.”

The length of time between the last frost in the spring and the first frost of the fall is getting longer and longer each year. While that does give farmers more time to harvest, the battle can outweigh the benefits. “Longer growing season usually that sounds good, that sounds like a plus, that’s what we’re after,” said Rodger Phillips,...

Historic wildfires are sweeping across the nation’s West Coast, but you wouldn’t know it from the presidential campaign.

Climate change is creating a number of challenges for Connecticut farmers.