Stories by E&E News

Florida hospitals are among the most vulnerable to flooding during hurricanes, but others along the East Coast and Gulf Coast are at risk, too

Hurricane Ian poses catastrophic risks to the Gulf Coast of Florida as climate change exacerbates the storm’s effects

Storms like Hurricane Ian may become more common because hurricanes are expected to rapidly intensify more often as the world warms

A new contest aims to jump-start U.S. production of floating wind turbines to place in ocean waters too deep for standard designs

The landmark Montreal Protocol treaty, agreed to 35 years ago this month, has reduced the use of chemicals that not only thinned the ozone layer but also warmed the planet

Annual worker productivity losses from extreme heat amounted to $44 billion on average across 12 cities and are projected to rise to $84 billion by 2050

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has decried fossil-fuel companies receiving subsidies and investment “while household budgets shrink and our planet burns”

A new fossil-fuel tracker tallies global oil, gas, and coal reserves and projects to show how current production could drive the world above the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius

Though conservatives have attacked California officials for asking electric vehicle owners to unplug during a heat wave, experts say more electric cars won’t topple the power grid

A new analysis finds that extreme rainfall has intensified across Pakistan and could become even more severe as the planet heats up

A new technique can measure the thickness of Arctic sea ice even during the difficult summer months

Early-warning systems for heat waves, floods and other hazards can save lives and property across the planet

A new U.S. government website keeps a running tally of climate-juiced hazards and the number of residents facing these threats

Local governments in coastal states will lose billions of dollars in local tax revenue as rising seas claim developed land

The Greenland ice sheet just experienced one of its strongest late-season melt events on record

Officials are urging California residents to curtail their energy use as the state faces this summer’s highest chance of outages during record-breaking temperatures

Climate change may be fueling back-to-back droughts and floods

Researchers say Indigenous “silvopasture” practices of raising livestock in naturally forested areas could be a critical tool to protect cows from climate change

Coastal flood zones where development is restricted will be based on future climate change projections, not past floods

Catastrophic megafloods formerly happened about once every 100 to 200 years in California, but climate change has increased those odds

New research points to underwater waves that create cooler ocean areas in which coral can survive global warming

One study after another is coming to the same conclusion: the Arctic is heating up much faster than earlier research suggested

Emissions models can understate the difficulty of rapidly reducing carbon dioxide this decade

Only 2.3 percent of households in the 10 Kentucky counties that suffered devastating floods last month have flood policies, records show