Stories Tagged as
Climate change
Environmental groups prepare for fight over methane proposal
Aug 30, 2019
A Trump administration proposal to roll back Obama-era rules to limit methane emissions is likely to face multiple legal challenges.
G-7 summit in France expected to be contentious
by
Andy Uhler
Aug 23, 2019
This year’s G-7 will not issue a joint communiqué after the meetings.
Automakers follow California's emissions rules to help reach Obama-era reduction targets
by
Scott Tong
Aug 22, 2019
Automakers are deciding whether to choose stricter emissions standards set by California, or a regulatory "freeze" proposed by the Trump administration.
Bracing for a Cold War in the Arctic
by
Kimberly Adams
and Erika Soderstrom
Aug 21, 2019
As ice caps melt, tensions between the U.S. and Russia loom.
Who's planting? Who's not? Who wants to know?
Aug 12, 2019
Getting a grasp on acreage planted by farmers was harder this year because of bad weather.
Floods, fires and financial risk: What climate change could do to the financial system
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Bennett Purser
Aug 5, 2019
A regulator warns the changing climate could cause a financial crisis.
Climate change means planning for further suffocating heat waves
by
Ben Bradford
Jul 18, 2019
In Washington, D.C. "high heat days" are expected to more than double in the next 50 years.
For public good, not for profit.
Heat waves reveal another cost of climate change
Jul 17, 2019
Rising temperatures associated with climate change will create a significant drain on economic productivity, according to researchers.
It's getting more expensive to emit carbon pollution in Europe
by
Scott Tong
Jul 12, 2019
In Europe's cap-and-trade market to limit emissions of carbon dioxide, the price of an allowance to pollute has increased to an 11-year high.
Europe’s economy wilts in one of the Continent’s hottest heat waves
Jul 11, 2019
Roads, railway tracks and other parts of Europe’s economic backbone buckle and crack under record temperatures.