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The EPA has released four new pollution rules, most focusing on coal-fired power, as the final pieces of Biden’s push to clean up the power sector

People in the U.S. will be able to see where extreme heat is a threat to health with a new interactive tool created by the National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Leaders of the Department of Health and Human Services will meet throughout the spring and summer to help protect farm laborers from heat and wildfire smoke

In the two years since Russia invaded Ukraine, a chasm has grown between Russian scientists who are studying the Arctic and their counterparts around the world

Chicago has joined several other cities and states in suing oil companies. The effort seeks to hold fossil fuel producers financially accountable for the effects of climate change

Insurance policies for natural resources are aiding conservation around the world

Tech billionaires are funding research into controversial methods for cooling the planet

Echo chambers of climate denial on social media are strongest in the U.S. Midwest and South and in states that depend heavily on fossil fuels

The U.S. Department of Energy will award up to $100 million for projects that remove CO2 from the atmosphere

Michael Mann secured a win in his legal battle against conservative bloggers who said the climatologist “molested and tortured data” and compared him to a convicted child abuser

Wildfires have upended the insurance industry, in part because climate change is fueling bigger and more destructive blazes

The contentious debate over whether liquefied natural gas is cleaner than coal has been elevated by President Joe Biden’s move to halt approvals of gas export terminals

NASA’s PACE mission aims to increase our understanding of Earth’s carbon cycle, pollution particles and ocean plankton

Dozens of conservative organizations have banded together to provide Trump a road map—known as Project 2025—to boost fossil fuels and limit government climate science

Wetlands with a small amount of salinity can produce more methane gas than those filled with freshwater or lots of seawater, new research suggests

A Brookings Institution report warns that energy-hungry artificial intelligence tech will worsen the climate crisis

A Biden administration review of natural gas exports could show the U.S. was relying on outdated assumptions about gas’s impact on renewable energy and carbon pollution

Rising temperatures are melting an area of the Swiss Alps where scientists have been working to collect centuries-old ice cores that contain evidence of past environmental conditions

The Hartford Financial Services Group is the latest insurer to say it won’t offer new policies to homeowners in California

Renewable energy will surpass coal power by 2025 and, with nuclear energy, will account for nearly half the world’s power generation by 2026, the International Energy Agency forecasts

A national survey shows Americans are increasingly worried about global warming. But partisan politics continues to drive a wedge between red and blue states

Harvard researchers found that most doctors and nurses who took a course in community organizing believed they could help combat climate change’s negative impacts on health

A new index scores U.S. cities by the amount of land they provide for parking. Sunbelt cities top the list

Record warmth last December and balmy temperatures in early January have turned lake ice in Minnesota into a death trap. Fatalities, injuries and rescues are piling up