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A new federal initiative is bringing together climate scientists and community leaders to examine cities’ microclimates — and make them more resilient.
Researchers say the U.N.'s global plastics treaty must reduce production and protect public health.
The city is spending billions to protect Manhattan. Other boroughs, not so much.
Many states with abortion bans are experiencing broiling summers — and the heat could damage supplies such as emergency contraception and condoms.
The people who clean up the world's trash say some companies' statements of support are little more than lip service.
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Many of the solutions are costly, putting them out of reach for small towns. But the region's most populous cities are getting innovative.
Indigenous peoples are navigating the slow collapse of winter roads — and an even slower pace of help.
Models show that currents could slow by more than 40 percent within 30 years, with potentially devastating effects on the ocean's ability to store carbon.