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Reactor shutdown in Connecticut is latest sign that nuclear energy would face challenges from climate change.
Will 2012 go down as the year that left the idea of nuclear energy expansion in the hot, dry dust?...
Aug 15, 2012
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The death toll from global warming-fueled heat waves will rise by 150,000 in America's biggest cities by century's end, study finds.
The U.S. death toll from heat waves made more intense by climate change will rise by 150,000—just...
Jun 6, 2012
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As extreme weather events multiply, scientists are still in the early stages of understanding how more energy is influencing complex weather phenomena
Despite America's intense political polarization over climate change, the scientific measurement of...
Jul 29, 2011
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Power generated from coal, natural gas and nuclear withdraws more freshwater per year than the entire agricultural sector; nuclear uses the most
The scramble to cool the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex with seawater in the aftermath of Japan'...
May 4, 2011
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For each 1 degree F rise in mean temperature and for each day a heat wave persisted, scientists found a 2.5 percent increased risk of death
Record-breaking—and dangerous—heat waves have lately become a staple of summer. In Moscow last July...
Nov 19, 2010
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17 countries with new national temperature records
by Andrew Freedman, Climate Central
This year is a little more than half over, and already it is...
Aug 16, 2010
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