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Hurricane Debby flooded the Big Bend region of Florida a year after it was pounded by Category 4 Hurricane Idalia

Warmer temperatures were supposed to make Arctic shipping easier. But thick floating ice created by local melting is a bigger risk than people realized

Damage from high-frequency storms is rising faster than losses from major disasters such as hurricanes and wildfires

The U.S. has been pumping sand onto eroding beaches for nearly a century. As climate change worsens, there’s no end in sight

Climate change-driven heat endangers Olympians. Here’s how the Games are helping competitors cool down

Scientists say efforts to tame methane in agriculture can spur the output of another greenhouse gas: nitrous oxide

The EPA plans to propose a rule in 2025 that will tackle methane emissions from landfills, one of the country's largest sources of the greenhouse gas

Hundreds of thousands of people die from extreme temperatures every year, more than any other type of weather disaster

Technicalities and hesitations softened the effect of Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement during his presidency, but a second attempt at a departure could be more serious

A 1972 law that allows states to avoid OSHA regulations for public-sector employees is undermining the nation’s first proposed worker safeguards for heat

A California company says it has developed a novel way of making concrete that doesn’t contribute to global warming

The nonpartisan group Science Moms says its campaign of ads that show the harms that climate change brings to children is nonpartisan and meant to educate the public about climate impacts

Hurricane Beryl exposed the dangers of what happens when a storm cuts off power and a heat wave follows in its wake

Repeated extreme weather events in states along the Gulf of Mexico such as Louisiana, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi and Florida can erode a community’s ability to take care of itself

Puerto Rico is suing fossil fuel companies over climate damages, saying that the industry knew about the dangers of its products and that the island is paying the price

A new U.N. Environment Program report focuses on geoengineering’s potential dangers to the planet, from disease to unlivable places

Miami and New York City officials say they need more insight into how searing temperatures affect homeless people and other vulnerable populations

A damaging downpour struck Vermont on the anniversary of last year’s flooding disaster, filling streets with mud and basements with water

Days after Hurricane Beryl hit Houston and left millions without power, the city was hit with a dangerous heat wave

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is requiring any construction project it funds to be elevated above local flood levels

Scientists, pilots and even a Jesuit priest have tried over decades to understand some of the most ferocious storms on Earth, but climate change is making such efforts to avert damage more difficult

It took 50 years and skyrocketing temperatures before the government proposed heat protections for workers. The Biden administration is trying to speed up the process

The CDC’s new Heat and Health Index looks at the vulnerability of 32,000 neighborhoods to extreme heat using demographic and health statistics

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling on “Chevron deference” could affect federal regulations of everything from power plant emissions to electric vehicles to transmission lines