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Houston’s warm, wet spring, driven in part by climate change, was a boon for mosquitoes and West Nile virus

Air-conditioning is uncommon for incarcerated people, and the heat index inside many of Texas’s 100 prison buildings can exceed 110 degrees Fahrenheit

Tanager-1 is the first in a series of satellites that aim to pinpoint major emitters of carbon dioxide and methane, major greenhouse gases

Global warming made hot, dry weather that fuels wildfires more likely in places such as Canada, Greece and the Amazon rainforest last year, new research says

Internal records show the U.S. Postal Service has tried to get workers out of air-conditioned offices. The allegations come one year after the agency was accused of falsifying heat-training records

New shipping regulations set limits on sulfur in maritime fuel, reducing harmful pollution but inadvertently ceasing a cooling effect on Earth’s climate

Two renewable resources, wind and solar, together have produced more power than coal through July—a first for the U.S.

Minnesota governor Tim Walz will promote climate action as Kamala Harris’s vice presidential pick, experts say

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