Stories by The Daily Climate

What was accomplished—or not—during two decades of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change summits

Trains aren't just carrying crude oil when it comes to energy

Researchers find alarming levels of these new contaminants in wastewater released into Pennsylvania and West Virginia streams

The U.N. climate negotiations are no longer just about emissions limits but also social justice

This savannah in Brazil is being swallowed up by industrial farming

The humble coca shrub has survived decades of efforts to eradicate it and global warming will not pose a greater challenge than that

Whitebark pine, denizen of the high country around Yellowstone National Park, faces an invading pest as climate shifts

Don't want to lease or buy outright solar panels? SolarCity will now loan you the money to do so

Lyme disease is bad enough. But it's just the beginning of a host of odd and ugly diseases ticks transmit, public health officials are finding

One of the clearest signs of health risks in a warming world has emerged in one of the world’s most advanced economies, as Canada belatedly struggles to cope with Lyme disease's migration in North America

As protesters rally, corporate boardrooms struggle over how to prevent further global warming

Methane emissions from big hydroelectric dams in the tropics outweigh the benefits that this form of renewable energy provides, according to new scientific data

Ocean acidification impairs mussels' ability to attach to surfaces – alarming commercial growers farming the waters around Puget Sound

A warming world may have less snow, but the sort of severe snowstorms that caused chaos in the US this year will remain a serious hazard, according to new research

Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon hopes to prevent world leaders sleepwalking into climate catastrophe by asking them to make new emissions pledges at a climate summit in New York this month

The first of three big commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plants comes online in Iowa in a bid to prove the fuel's promise as a solution to climate change

Idyllic settings and lush greens at golf courses are the product of a global research effort working hard to prepare the industry for global warming

Could drought be destabilizing California weather?

Satellite imaging reveals the need to change farming in South Asia as higher average temperatures hit

While some of the West suffers in drought, other parts of the U.S. breadbasket suffer from too many storm clouds

With better management, the grass and shrubbery by the side of the road could soak up a lot of CO2, helping combat climate change

A new agreement between China and the U.S. may stimulate research on capturing CO2 pollution

Dust from the Sahara Desert provides most of the iron found in the Atlantic Ocean, according to research that also sheds light on how the oceans help sequester carbon dioxide

As Arctic ice—and access to seals living there—disappears, polar bears show they can adapt to a land-based diet of geese, eggs and the occasional caribou