Stories by ClimateWire

Football fever is no defense against power cuts and health threats 

Overuse of nitrogen is an even bigger source of climate change pollution

Dirty ice melts faster, which suggests Greenland's glaciers may disappear faster that previously expected, hastening sea level rise

Fish save the world billions of dollars in damages by helping store carbon dioxide in the oceans

The answer could help clarify how warm climate change might get

 Coastal communities can help combat ocean acidification by cutting back on water pollution

An intense wildfire season paired with the heavy rains of El Niño could set the stage for disasters in the western U.S.

Climate change experts want more certain actions than are called for in the new proposed rule to cut carbon dioxide from power plants

Rep. Gary Peters is uncertain whether the EPA's new caps on carbon can help get him elected to the U.S. Senate from Michigan

Here's a primer on the EPA's upcoming rules for polluting power plants

As ice sheets melt, communities worry that health effects are overlooked

NASA will make another attempt to get the Orbiting Carbon Observatory into space to answer questions about global warming

The Berlin Air Show witnessed a silent, clean test flight by Airbus's E-Fan two-seater aircraft, which is entirely propelled by electricity

Pilot cap-and-trade schemes in various places in China have faced a host of difficulties, including a lack of trading

The iron fertilizer from glacier melt may help feed plankton blooms that, in turn, suck carbon dioxide out of the sky

Climate change is putting national treasures at risk and triage is required

Raising pigs, chickens and cows means increased emissions of the greenhouse gases causing climate change

The deep grooves under the massive ice sheet could facilitate flow into the ocean, which suggests sea level rise estimates for this century need to be revised upwards

At least nine fires are raging around San Diego and, with much of the state in drought, there will be more to come

A U.S. government-backed guide for land managers says global warming requires a fundamental shift in conservation

The U.S. has not done enough to prepare for the national security challenges of global warming

In order to combat climate change, a transformation in energy supply and use is long overdue, according to the International Energy Agency

More accurate, cheaper measurements of snowpack can help the state, struggling with drought, to better manage water flows

The still nascent technology to generate electricity from the sea may find its first economical uses far from the grid