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President-elect Trump vowed to promote fossil fuels, weaken pollution regulations and reverse Biden administration climate efforts

Several downballot races in the 2024 presidential election will carry implications for climate policy far beyond state lines

Thousands of homes in Navajo and other tribal lands don’t have access to electricity. A $200-million federal funding effort aims to fix that problem with solar power and other clean energy

Torrential rain, made worse by climate change, has lashed Spain, with Valencia bearing the brunt of the floodwaters

A review of 47,282 tree species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature found that more than one third are at risk of extinction

A small number of fast-moving wildfires cause almost all the property damage by forcing firefighters to focus on saving lives

The world is well on track to blow past a goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius that many countries have put at the center of their climate efforts

Damage from Hurricane Helene forced the only abortion clinic in western North Carolina to shutter, disrupting health care for pregnant people across a large region

The Small Business Association has announced that loans to those affected by hurricanes and other disasters have been halted to wait for more money from Congress. But the House speaker says nothing will happen until after the presidential election

Hurricane Helene devastated a North Carolina facility that produces peritoneal dialysis fluid, which is used by about 80,000 people nationally

Increasingly intense hurricanes, wildfires and other climate disasters have forced these state-run backstop insurance groups into a role typically assumed by the private sector as the primary insurer within their borders

Support from the Biden-Harris administration has boosted the already burgeoning electric school bus industry, and those gains should last no matter who wins the election

Never-before-seen rainfall, record-breaking tornado outbreaks and wild wind acceleration defined Hurricane Milton

Without more funding, FEMA may be forced to restrict spending and suspend rebuilding projects

Florida is scrambling to clear storm-damaged areas before Hurricane Milton makes landfall

A 2013 report from the World Bank placed the Tampa Bay area seventh on a list of the top 10 global cities facing the costliest damage from coastal floods

Experts say the effects of global warming are playing a greater role in where people decide to move

Only 2 percent of households in parts of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina that were flooded by Hurricane Helene can get insurance payments

Hurricane Helene forced dozens of medical facilities across the southern U.S. to evacuate patients, underscoring the human costs of climate change

The conservative Project 2025 playbook for a possible Trump presidency calls for cutting aid for disasters such as Hurricane Helene

Hurricane Helene fueled catastrophic flooding from Florida to Appalachia, leaving millions without power

Donald Trump all but ignored climate change at Tuesday’s presidential debate while Kamala Harris voiced support of both fossil fuels and increased clean energy spending

By vastly understating the number of heat-related deaths, medical officials make it harder to improve heat safety and save lives

New research suggests that remote Antarctica is more vulnerable to trash and invasive species washing up from longer distances than previously thought