Environment

Report: Climate change could displace 200 million people by 2050

September 13, 2021 By Renata Brito

The worst-case scenario is “plausible” if collective action to reduce emissions and invest in development isn’t taken, especially in the next decade.

Biden on climate crisis: This is Code Red

September 8, 2021 By Aamer Madhani And Darlene Superville

In NYC after Ida, Biden calls climate ‘everybody’s crisis’.

Dozens die in Ida’s rampage through the Northeast

September 3, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

In fires in the West and floods in the East stunned Americans suffer the ominous effects of climate change.

Judge tosses Trump rollback of clean water safeguards

September 1, 2021 By Michael Phillis And Suman Naishadham

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out a Trump-era rule that ended federal protections for hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands, and other waterways and left them vulnerable to pollution from nearby development....

EPA takes action to protect Pacific salmon from pesticides

August 27, 2021 By Olivia Rosane

Extreme heatwaves have made this a devastating summer for the endangered salmon species of the U.S. West Coast. In mid July, California wildlife officials warned that almost all of the young Chinook salmon in the Sacramento...