climate change

As heat waves fueled by climate change arrive earlier, grow more intense and last longer, people over 60 who are more vulnerable to high temperatures are increasingly at risk of dying from heat-related causes.

A dangerous and potentially deadly fungal infection is spreading fast, and researchers say our changing climate is partly to blame.

A ‘pollen storm’ and longer allergy seasons are sending a growing number of adults in search of relief.

The Biden administration is making $450 million available for solar farms and other clean energy projects nationwide at the site of current or former coal mines.

The United States is Earth’s punching bag for nasty weather. The nation’s weather chief and other experts say the U.S. gets hit by stronger, costlier, more varied and frequent extreme weather than anywhere on Earth.

When it was being prepared — first slow baked and then finished off on the outside with a blow torch — it smelled good, the creators say.

Frost and “extreme temperatures” in the United States may have played a role in the butterfly’s decline during the most recent winter season.

The UN’s climate change report says the state of the world is on “thin ice,” but humanity still has a change to turn things around. NBC 6’s Alyssa Hyman reports

Humanity still has a chance, close to the last one, to prevent the worst of climate change’s future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists said Monday.

As global warming threatens to put much of the ski industry out of business over the next several decades, resorts are beginning to embrace a role as climate activists.

A house collapsed into the ocean Monday on the string of islands just off the coast of North Carolina, according to U.S. National Park Service officials.

The Biden administration is approving the major Willow oil project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope.

The cherry trees in Washington, D.C., are about to blossom, triggering the challenge to predict when they will be at their most spectacular. Climate change is making the job more difficult.

Records for the trees on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., show a seven-day shift for peak blooms

Humpback whales are dying in greater numbers along the Atlantic Coast, apparently as they follow their food closer to shore in the warming ocean waters, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries says the U.S. is experiencing an uptick in whale strandings on the Atlantic, with nearly two dozen whales winding up dead on beaches since Dec. 1, 2022.

Scientists got their first up-close look at what’s eating away part of Antarctica’s Thwaites ice shelf. The findings were published in two studies in Wednesday’s journal Nature.

The Florida-sized glacier got its nickname because of how much ice it has and how much seas could rise if it all melts.

The Biden administration has issued a long-awaited study that recommends allowing a major oil development on Alaska’s North Slope.

Long-haul carrier Emirates has successfully flown a Boeing 777 on a test flight with one engine entirely powered by so-called sustainable aviation fuel.