When Seattle's new sports and concert arena opened its doors to the public in October 2021, many were left scratching heads as to what the heck the building's name was about.
Californians have been concerned about wildfires for a long time, but the past two years have left many of them fearful and questioning whether any solutions to the fire crisis truly exist.
Few people spend as much time in the wilderness and outdoors as hunters and anglers, and a new report aims to be a springboard to bring those conservationists and their knowledge into discussions of combating climate change.
Weather is what you see hour to hour and day to day. Weather involves just the atmosphere. Climate is the average weather over decades and is influenced by the oceans and the land surfaces.
Researchers from Australia's Deakin University found evidence of so-called "shapeshifting" in recent years in direct response to warming temperatures across habitat ranges.
The 2021 water year ended on Sept. 30, and it was another hot, dry year in the western U.S., with almost the entire region in drought.
Rising temperatures due to climate change are causing more than just uncomfortably hot days across the United States.
Electricity generation produces a quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change. The electric grid also is highly vulnerable to climate change effects, such as more frequent and severe droughts, hurricanes and other extreme weather events.
If you've never lived in or visited the U.S. Southwest, you might picture it as a desert that is always hot and dry. But this region experiences a monsoon in the late summer that produces thunderstorms and severe weather.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a rule to start eliminating a class of climate-warming chemicals that are widely used as coolants in refrigerators, air conditioners and heat pumps. If that plan feels like deja vu, it should.
