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That’s 42 percent higher than the 10-year average.
Mosquitoes are moving into the mountains of Papua New Guinea and other highland areas. That could be a death sentence for pregnant people.
New research makes clear the link between climate change and prison mortality.
As conditions that best support life shift toward the poles, more than 600 million people are already living outside of a crucial “climate niche,” facing more extreme heat, rising food scarcity and higher death rates.
As a warming world creates an existential threat for the ski industry, resorts are reducing how much energy they need to make it snow.
Mining waste would have jeopardized the world’s largest sockeye salmon run.
The Agriculture Department just restored the so-called Roadless Rule, but federal land swaps could still open forest lands to logging.
Solar advocates in southwestern Virginia say being local, proving the technology works, and building a coalition to support it have been key to their success.
Just 1.3 percent of homeowners in the state have national flood insurance policies.
