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Trump's return to the White House raises questions about whether the country will continue working on global climate initiatives.

It was the hottest August in records dating back to the 1800s — and the heat goes on.

While climate change-related deaths are a regular event humans are getting better at surviving excess heat

Plus: Meta is ready to risk it all for AI

At least, not fast enough to reach international climate targets.

"I knew that it would detract from the clean narrative centered on the negative impact of climate change," Patrick T. Brown wrote, but Nature Editor In Chief Magdalena Skipper insisted …

Climate change has sharply boosted the risk of fast-spreading wildfires, according to a Californian study published Wednesday that offers lessons for prevention after recent disasters in Canada, Greece and Hawaii.

In the hunt for minerals needed in electric car batteries, some companies are turning to the deep sea. But mining this ecosystem could threaten its very existence.

America may have hit "peak gasoline," but the fossil fuel's decline is still too slow to meet climate goals

A group known as the "ecomodernists," which includes prominent environmental thinkers and development specialists such as Ted Nordhaus, Michael Shellenberger, Stewart Brand, David Keith, and Joyashree Roy has recently published a statement of principles called An Ecomodernist Manifesto (2015). Many of the authors of the Manifesto are connected to an influential think tank called The Breakthrough Institute.…

Could nuclear power help break Europe's dependency on Russian gas?

Chris Wright is no hater of renewables, nuclear power, or transmission. But the Trump administration's energy policy is a contradictory mess.

The nuclear industry and big tech companies think they can solve each other's problems, but critics are skeptical the marriage can last.

The case for and against fracking, politics aside.

The number of missing persons following the massive wildfire that leveled a town on the island of Maui last month has fallen from 385 to 66, Hawaii Governor Josh Green said Friday.Green made the announcement one month after the fire that destroyed the town of Lahaina, the deadliest in the United Sta...

A new study pins about 25% of the extra risk on human-caused climate change.

Bill McKibben assesses the validity of the arguments that both degrowthists and those who are pro-green-tech make for how we should address climate change.

A study of more than 2,000 projects funded from 2020 to 2022 shows scant evidence of a climate focus

The first newly constructed US reactors since Three Mile Island will make Vogtle the biggest energy generator in the country

Today's fundamentalist environmentalists want to scare you into believing things that just aren't so.