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Forecasters Tap High-Tech Tools as US Warns of Another Unusually Active Hurricane Season

Predictions of hurricane paths have improved markedly, but their intensity remains difficult to forecast. Air and water drones could change that.

By James Bruggers

New Study Says World Must Cut Short-Lived Climate Pollutants as Well as Carbon Dioxide to Meet Paris Agreement Goals

By Phil McKenna

Warming Trends: Forests Are the Best Big-City Water Filters, Plus Veggie Burgers by Default, Sea Songs by ET’s Doctor and a Reminder to Eat Fresh Food in the Fridge

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Warming Trends: Weather Guarantees for Your Vacation, Plus the Benefits of Microbial Proteins and an Urban Bias Against the Environment

By Katelyn Weisbrod

New Research Shows Aerosol Emissions May Have Masked Global Warming’s Supercharging of Tropical Storms

By Bob Berwyn

Earth Has a 50-50 Chance of Hitting a Grim Global Warming Milestone in the Next Five Years

By Bob Berwyn

Warming Trends: Nature and Health Studies Focused on the Privileged, $1B for Climate School and Old Tires Detour Into Concrete

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Sierra Crean, 16, holds her sister Colby, 15, outside their Louisville home. They lived in Louisville with their parents, Tim and Joanna, and two dogs, Ozzie and Jackson. Now, when Sierra has hard days, she misses home. She used to babysit kids in the neighborhood, but now she rarely sees them. "This is the only home I can remember," she said. Now "it's like a distant place you didn't know."

‘Stripped of Everything,’ Survivors of Colorado’s Most Destructive Fire Face Slow Recoveries and a Growing Climate Threat

Story and Photos by Melissa Bailey

New Reports Show Forests Need Far More Funding to Help the Climate, and Even Then, They Can’t Do It All

By Georgina Gustin

Emergency crews battle a wildfire on April 19, 2011 in Strawn, Texas. Credit: Tom Pennington/Getty Images

Texas’ Wildfire Risks, Amplified by Climate Change, Are Second Only to California’s

By Delger Erdenesanaa, The Texas Observer

A Climate-Driven Decline of Tiny Dryland Lichens Could Have Big Global Impacts

By Bob Berwyn

Warming Trends: Tracking Bird Migration in the Night Sky, Plus the Olympic Mountains’ Rapidly Shrinking Glaciers and a Podcast Focused on Florida’s Polluted Environment

By Katelyn Weisbrod

The Current Rate of Ocean Warming Could Bring the Greatest Extinction of Sealife in 250 Million Years

By Bob Berwyn

UN Report Says Humanity Has Altered 70 Percent of the Earth’s Land, Putting the Planet on a ‘Crisis Footing’

By Georgina Gustin

California Regulators Banned Fracking Wastewater for Irrigation, but Allow Wastewater From Oil Drilling. Scientists Say There’s Little Difference

By Liza Gross

Warming Trends: Smelly Beaches in Florida Deterred Tourists, Plus the Dearth of Climate Change in Pop Culture and Threats to the Colorado River

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Climate Change is Spreading a Debilitating Fungal Disease Throughout the West

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Warming Trends: British Morning Show Copies Fictional ‘Don’t Look Up’ Newscast, Pinterest Drops Climate Misinformation and Greta’s Latest Book Project

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Ocean Warming Doubles Odds for Extreme Atlantic Hurricane Seasons

By Bob Berwyn

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