Stories by E&E News

Artificial intelligence taps historical weather data in forecasting, but the changing climate is complicating such efforts

Tens of thousands of people died during intense heat waves in Europe last summer, indicating that heat prevention plans aren’t protecting vulnerable populations

About eight in 10 people in the highest-risk fire areas of the U.S. live in Western states, notably California. But other states such as Florida face threats, too

A new supercomputer is helping climate scientists determine whether injecting human-made, sun-blocking aerosols into the stratosphere would also alter thunderstorms and rainfall

The Biden administration has approved a third big offshore wind project, this one near the Atlantic City gambling hub, expanding power capacity and jobs

Early warning about impending weather disasters is almost impossible across large, low-income regions of the world

Major climate models agree that the Inflation Reduction Act was a “huge step forward” in cutting U.S. emissions

Extreme rainfall is increasing in the Northern Hemisphere’s mountain ranges as global temperatures rise, raising the dangers of floods and landslides

Heat Wave Yago is baking Seville, Spain, the first city in the world to introduce a heat wave naming and ranking system

NOAA precipitation estimates that engineers and planners use to design bridges, roads and other infrastructure are decades out of date because of climate change

Solar power has been crucial to keeping the power on in Texas while the state experiences a major heat wave, even as some politicians have attempted to make it more difficult to connect renewable energy to the grid

Young Montanans put their state on trial for its contributions to climate change. Here are five takeaways from the proceedings as we await the judge’s ruling

Stanford University researchers found high levels of the carcinogen benzene in California and Colorado homes that used gas stoves

Record ocean temperatures in the Atlantic are causing storms to form much farther east than usual

The American Lung Association says a proposed EPA rule to curtail tailpipe pollution, which would bolster electric car adoption, could help the country avoid premature deaths and millions of asthma attacks

Young people suing Montana to take action on climate change are ready to wrap up their arguments in a first-of-its-kind trial. The state takes the stand next week

There is no evidence for Republican claims that considering the environmental impacts of investment is bad for the poor—part of the party’s growing opposition to environmental, social and governance investments

New research finds that the area burned by wildfires during summer in California has increased fivefold since 1971 because of more arid conditions caused by climate change

Ontario and Quebec could see wildfires grow more intense and frequent as a changing climate brings unusually hot and dry conditions

Wind and solar produced more U.S. power than coal during the first five months of this year, as several coal plants closed and gas prices dropped

The nation’s first climate trial, led by kids, will open on Monday in Montana but could have ramifications outside the state’s borders

A new study finds that Arctic sea ice could disappear in the summers as early as the 2030s, a decade earlier than previously thought

Researchers calculated that high-emitting countries, including the U.S., should pay $192 trillion in compensation to low-emitting nations

A new tool that tracks military deployments to climate disasters could shed light on how the traditional war-fighting mission is evolving under a warming climate