Impacts
An unprecedented nationwide data collection will show where storms and wildfires are causing large insurer losses and rate hikes.
Surging concentrations of carbon in the atmosphere have produced potent changes in the way plants grow, draining the nutrients from food.

As global temperatures rise, extreme heat could threaten athletes, fans, workers, and officials during this year’s World Cup games.

Pace of sea-level rise has turned Outer Banks coastal area into a ‘canary in the coal mine’ for other east coast communities.

A Category 4 hurricane making direct landfall on New York City could cause as much as $500 billion in insured damage.

Colombia president Gustavo Petro tells delegates at 57-country talks on a green energy transition that fossil fuel interests could destroy humanity.

Europe's climate extremes have hit new highs — but renewables are now supplying nearly half of the continent's electricity.

Scarcity, pollution, and deregulation are putting Canada’s water supply under siege.

Utah cities, ski resorts, farmers, and scientists tracking and preparing for the fallout of this year’s lowest-ever snowpack and winter drought are already feeling the effects.

A massive plan would turn 136,000 acres of California farmland into giant solar farms as new groundwater rules push fields out of production.

Warmer days and longer growing seasons are making northern regions in Ontario and the Prairies more hospitable for cattle farms, but grocery bills haven’t caught up.

A new UN report maps how extreme heat is tearing through every layer of the global food system — and mostly overlooks the people at the heart of it.

Months of drought and hot temperatures have impacted water levels in Illinois, leading to concerns about water supply.

In Florida, majority Black and brown communities face hotter temperatures, rising seas and more damaging storms. One advocacy group is considering other ways of helping them.

Simultaneous exposure to toxic chemicals and climate change’s impacts likely generates an additive or synergistic effect that increases reproductive harm.

The Pacific heat pulse is temporary, but scientists warn that its climate impacts are not.
A new study finds that more than 70 percent of these protected zones are exposed to high levels of wastewater pollutants, making corals and other marine life more vulnerable to climate change.

The Narwhal's analysis found $500 million in expenses directly attributable to last year’s wildfires in Manitoba — from evacuation flights to lost homes to closed business to burned power poles. The true costs are even larger.

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