Changing Climate

Climate change is threatening small businesses across America, but these companies are rising up despite the challenges. In “Rebound,” we go behind the scenes with small businesses who are finding ways to pivot as more extreme storms, wildfires, rising sea levels and drought are changing the face of their communities. As the nation cont...

A legal campaign is underway to protect outdoor workers in Miami-Dade County from the heat. “Que Calor” or “How Hot” would require access to water and breaks to rest in the shade for farmworkers, plant nursery workers, day laborers, construction workers and others on the front lines of an increasingly hotter climate. Workers who show signs of heat ...

Even as surveys show the public generally has become more concerned about climate change, a sizeable number of Americans have become even more distrustful of the scientific consensus.

The Biden administration on Monday announced plans to replant trees on millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands as officials struggle to counter the increasing toll on the nation’s forests from wildfires, insects and other manifestations of climate change.

Satellite images show a plume of smoke rising from a wildfire near California’s Yosemite National Park that forced evacuations as it grew during a weekend of sweltering temperatures.

City residents in the Northeast are fleeing a hot spell in favor of pools, beaches and forests.

The water levels are now at their lowest since 1937, when the lake was first being filled.

The federal flood insurance program, which insures risky homes that private insurers won’t cover, is in debt because it pays out more than it collects in premiums. Now it’s raising rates to better reflect risks.

President Biden has been trying to signal to Democratic voters that he’s aggressively tackling global warming at a time when some of his supporters have despaired about the lack of progress.

The British government was holding an emergency response meeting to plan for record high temperatures next week after authorities issued their first-ever “red” warning for extreme heat.

The Biden administration on Tuesday released two reports arguing that removing dams on the lower Snake River may be needed to restore salmon runs to sustainable levels in the Pacific Northwest, and that replacing the energy created by the dams is possible but will cost $11 billion to $19 billion.

Researchers said the findings, published in the journal Climatic Change, could provide opportunities for climate liability claims between individual countries.

The largest grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park is still closed as firefighters battle a blaze that threatens the trees and has forced hundreds of campers to evacuate. Firefighters worked furiously Saturday to keep the flames from harming the iconic grove of about 500 mature sequoias, which are the world’s biggest trees by volum...