Stories by E&E News

Structures first deployed as artificial reefs are being used in the Northeast to combat the force of waves as ocean levels rise

Hundreds of people were killed and thousands of homes destroyed in Durban after torrential rains unleashed flooding

Without the cooling effect of aerosols, warmer oceans have provided more fuel to storms

The long-suspected link could provide a way to track emissions from burning natural gas

Gender discrimination multiplies the challenges women face from climate change, a new U.N. report says

There is debate about whether the agency will rely on carbon capture to achieve emissions reductions

Jalonne White-Newsome went from being a Dow Chemical devotee to a leading injustice advocate

And other new technology could detect carbon monoxide emitted just when flames start

More than 170 projects are underway worldwide

Sustained temperatures above 110 degrees Fahrenheit threaten people, wheat crops and power supplies

Cities are sinking as they guzzle groundwater—and oil and gas—from below

If greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed, temperature spikes could bring the first such mass extinction in 250 million years

The dramatic loss of tree cover in the tropics and northern boreal forests is releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide

Natural variations are currently the main cause, but climate change should continue to cause it to slow down

Governor Tom Wolf announced last week that his administration had finalized a regulation to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

A “new peak of air pollution” every August exposes as many as 130 million people to harmful chemicals

The president is issuing an executive order requiring the federal government to catalog the nation’s biggest trees

Tropical regions show the greatest risk for insect declines

In February sea ice dropped below two million square kilometers for the first time on record

Many proposed mines for minerals used in electric vehicles and clean tech will be located next to the lands of Indigenous people

European policy makers are considering easing environmental protection measures to allow for increased crop production

The milestone showed both how far renewable energy has come and the lengths the country must go to reach President Joe Biden’s climate goals

Many communities are unprepared for storms that have been getting worse in part because of climate change

The storms produced significantly more rainfall than they would have without global warming