6 days agoHouston skyscrapers may have worsened Hurricane Harvey rainTwo new studies show how humans made recent hurricanes even wetter but in different ways.
November 13Ocasio-Cortez joins climate change protesters outside Pelosi’s office during first day on Capitol HillMoments after arriving on Capitol Hill for freshman orientation, Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., went to the office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
November 13Scientists: Wind, drought worsen fires, not bad managementBoth nature and humans share blame for California's devastating wildfires, but forest management did not play a major role, despite President Donald Trump's claims, fire scientists say.
November 11Death toll rises in California wildfire, matching deadliestSheriff's investigators have begun the agonizing task of scouring through the wreckage of California's most destructive fire on record in search of the dead.
14:28October 21The truth about global warmingDr. Patrick Michaels, director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute, provides insight into the debate over climate change and the political games played to create policy.
October 15Trump hedges on climate change denial in wake of Hurricane Michael; says 'there is something there'President Trump on Monday once again backed off his previous claim that climate change is a hoax, but would not say whether or not he believed it was a manmade problem.
October 12Biosphere 2 legacy lives on more than quarter century laterThey lived for two years and 20 minutes under the glass of a miniature Earth, complete with an ocean, rain forest, desert, grasslands and mangroves.
October 10Fast, furious: How Michael grew into a 155 mph monsterMoist air, warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, and ideal wind patterns turbocharged Hurricane Michael in the hours before it smacked Florida's Panhandle.
October 8Terrifying climate change warning: 12 years until we’re doomedEarth is on track to face devastating consequences of climate change – extreme drought, food shortages and deadly flooding – unless there’s an “unprecedented” effort made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, a new United Nations report warns.
September 27Warm waters boosted 2017's major hurricane tally, study saysThe Atlantic's warmer waters triggered the unusual number of major hurricanes last year, according to a new study that predicts the region could see a couple of extra whopper storms each year by the end of the century.
