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The federal agency is overhauling its disaster rules in a bid to end a cycle of rebuilding in unsafe areas.
Scientists in Brazil and Peru may have found a way to beat mosquitoes at their own game. The U.S. may soon need to do the same.
A new study shows that exposure to high temperatures adds up to 14 months to older adults' cellular age.
Millions of people are bitten by snakes every year. Climate change is increasing human-snake encounters, even as many countries remain ill-equipped to treat victims.
Around the globe, oil and gas companies use similar strategies to fight building electrification.
The source of more than half of all wildfires in the Western U.S. remains unknown. AI could change that.
Experts called the verdict “beyond punitive.” The organization plans to appeal and has already filed a countersuit in Europe.
As Finland reckons with its historic mistreatment of the Indigenous Sámi people, climate change complicates the path forward.
Irish farmers have been burning carbon-rich peat to heat their rural homes for generations, but the practice has come under fire.