Impacts
Extreme heat can destabilize glucose control – but millions of Americans can’t afford the air conditioning that could keep them safe, two health experts warn.
The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.
What used to be the “wrong side of the tracks” is now the city’s climate escape route, and Black residents are being pushed off the path they built.

While extreme heat can destroy infrastructure, overwhelm emergency services and cost lives, it does not currently trigger the same federal response and funding as hurricanes or floods.

A project to measure how reflective paint reduces indoor temperatures is delivering tangible benefits across Africa.

Soaring temperatures can actually hinder some kinds of renewable energy output, even sun-absorbing solar.
Scientists’ discovery of hollowed coral skeletons after a 2019 bleaching event reveals a reef that isn’t coming back.

An examination of the 2024 Jasper, Alberta wildfire argues that the disaster was a warning about how climate change is creating fires so intense they can overwhelm even well-defended communities.

Staggering in scale, the Vancouver Art Gallery’s newest show offers an unforgettable portrait of environmental change and its human costs.

Europe is sweltering under an early heat wave that has broken records and claimed lives. What is happening to make it so hot?

As rising temperatures reshape ecosystems around the world, scientists are warning that bacteria, fungi, and other microbes are adapting in ways that could threaten human health.

A surge in malaria cases in Zimbabwe is exposing fragile health systems and growing treatment shortages in rural areas.

Years after wildfire scares, parents are left wondering if their children's chronic illnesses began with what was in the air before they were born.

A new report from the United Nations weather agency gives a three-out-of-four chance that the next five years will average more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures.

Ever noticed that it tends to be far hotter in cities than the countryside? This is because of the urban ‘heat island’ effect.

Federal officials are considering cool water releases for the third consecutive year at Glen Canyon Dam in Northern Arizona this summer to safeguard the humpback chub, a federally protected fish.

Experts say climate change is linked to 10% rise in salmonella antibiotic resistance genes between 1940 and 2023.

Mr. Gore is still giving the slide show that “An Inconvenient Truth” was built around, but with changes that reflect a shift in the discussion of climate change.
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