climate change

Climate change is causing ticks to remain active in Connecticut year-round, according to scientists at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES). “For the last month and a half, we have had above freeing temperature and that’s the perfect temperature for ticks to be active,” said Goudarz Molaei, who leads the state’s tick surveillance program. “People have to realize this...

Greta Thunberg was detained by German police on Tuesday while taking part in protests against the demolition of the coal village of Luetzerath.

German news agency dpa is reporting that Swedish climate activist Great Thunberg and several other protesters have been carried away by German police from the edge of an open coal pit mine.

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry backs the United Arab Emirates’ decision to appoint the CEO of a state-run oil company to preside over the upcoming U.N. climate negotiations in Dubai

Government science teams say that 2022 didn’t quite set a record for heat, but it was in the top five or six warmest on record depending on who’s doing the measuring.

Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says.

Brazil´s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday that Amazon activist Marina Silva will be the country´s next minister of environment.

2022 brought plenty of doom and gloom headlines around climate change— a year full of disasters, record emissions, and record CO2 levels. But major advancements over the last year have created positive momentum toward addressing climate change in 2023.

Since the 1980s, the number of bears in the region has fallen by nearly 50%, the authors found. The ice essential to their survival is disappearing.

U.S. airlines have made steady improvements to their overall accident rate in recent years. But turbulence continues to be a major cause of accidents and injuries.

The Postal Service said the move has the potential to create one of the largest electric vehicle fleets in the country.

The major winter storm which is expected to disrupt holiday travel could bring record cold to much of the U.S. A climate scientist explains how this cold outbreak is connected to the rapid warming of the Arctic.

Negotiators reached a historic deal at a U.N. biodiversity conference early Monday

States and utility companies are investing in “cloud seeding” — a way to artificially increase precipitation in the drought-ridden American West and worldwide.

A U.S.-French satellite that will map almost all of the world’s surface water has rocketed into orbit. The predawn launch Friday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California capped a highly successful year for NASA. The satellite will conduct the first global survey of its kind. Besides oceans and seas, it will measure the height and flow of water in...

The significant advance in technology has been decades in the making.

Populations of a vulnerable species of marine mammal, numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction, an international conservation organization said Friday.

Millions of Millennials and Gen Z feel anxiety, dread, or grief about the accelerating effects of climate change. However, there are tools which might help you cope with those difficult emotions.

Biden is honoring Macron with the first state dinner of his presidency on Thursday evening, but first the two leaders sat down in Oval Office to discuss difficult issues that they must confront.

Choosing to move away from climate threats is known as “managed retreat,” but the name often draws negative reactions. How will communities react when it becomes clear that staying put is no longer an option?