With reservoirs at less than one-third capacity, researchers say the Colorado River could reach dangerously low levels after another dry winter unless the federal government and seven Western states act quickly to reduce water use.
A key climate crisis funding treaty struck as Pacific leaders backed Australia’s bid for Cop31 despite some criticism of its environmental credentials.
An Inside Climate News analysis shows the state’s insurance crisis is hitting hardest in the disadvantaged counties of Florida’s agricultural heartland. Residents here, in large part, are bearing the burden themselves.
With extreme heat intensifying due to climate change, Los Angeles Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez is pushing for a citywide indoor temperature threshold that would require landlords to provide renters with cooling options.
Long hailed as a climate-resilient staple, breadfruit is shrinking and failing in the Marshall Islands as heat, drought and saltwater intrusion batter trees and taint groundwater.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make Our Children Healthy Again” plan promises action on toxics and food additives but ignores climate change, which scientists warn is the greatest health threat of our time.
Folks on Louisiana's bayous, where Big Oil is really big, know firsthand the perils of sea level rise, and a group of North Carolinians recently visited there looking to start a conversation.
A new report on the impact of lithium mining in South America’s lithium triangle has found that methods used by companies in the rush to extract the mineral in Chile’s Salar de Atacama has led to an “irreversible” and “unrecoverable” loss of water.
As global demand for food surges, journalist Michael Grunwald examines whether new technologies and smarter land use can prevent agriculture from further accelerating climate change.
Some days it can feel as if climate catastrophe is inevitable. But history is full of cases – such as the banning of whaling and CFCs – that show humanity can come together to avert disaster.
Pamela McElwee joined a group of 85 climate scientists who refuted DOE’s faulty science last week. Trump’s climate denialism, she believes, is designed to sow confusion—and inaction.
A "bubble curtain" is set for activation as part of South Australia's fight against the ongoing algal bloom, as the state government defends its handling of health advice.
Jane Clougherty spent years studying how extreme weather affects kids’ health, but as climate threats continue to rise, the Trump administration cancelled her work.
Students are heading back to school, and in addition to all of the usual challenges of the school year, some children are carrying an extra weight: climate anxiety.
