changing climate

Perhaps in a bit of news that bodes well for Philadelphia’s favorite football team, the population of bald eagles all across New Jersey has risen, with 250 active nests discovered over the course of the past year.

Just how does climate change work? It’s something scientists have known about for more than 150 years. The physics and chemistry is simple enough you can replicate it at home. The way carbon molecules vibrate, their shape and everything blocks infrared radiation — heat — from escaping Earth. It fills holes in the light spectrum, blocking heat’s escape path. Think...

City residents in the Northeast are fleeing a hot spell in favor of pools, beaches and forests.

Some residents in the Philadelphia region had to get their air conditioning units fixed as the heat wave extended to its sixth consecutive day across the northeast. NBC10’s Brian Sheehan spoke to some affected residents.

An NBC10 investigation found that the City of Philadelphia’s 70-megawatt solar farm, first announced in 2019, remains unbuilt. The project has been sold three times with none of the developers putting a shovel in the ground. Meanwhile, a solar farm built since then by SEPTA is proving well worth it for the transit system’s bottom line and clean energy...

A 70-megawatt solar array the City of Philadelphia would build as a renewable energy supply for its buildings is way behind schedule. NBC10 investigative reporter Claudia Vargas found out what is stalling the project and that the delay is costing taxpayers money while halting the city’s renewable energy goals.

A climate change trend shows the hot summer days getting hotter unless more is done to reduce our carbon footprint. NBC10’s Tim Furlong spoke with experts about how this will affect lower income families.

As officials in Philadelphia and Delaware counties look to expand Philadelphia International Airport with the promise of jobs and revenue for the local economy, residents and environmentalists worry that flooding in the area will only get worse.

Philadelphia International Airport is promising jobs and revenue as it looks to expand, but this expansion project presents issues for neighbors who live in the flood-prone surroundings. NBC10’s Danny Freeman reports.

Orsted, the Danish wind power developer, signed an agreement Thursday with New Jersey officials to use a state-financed manufacturing port to build the components of the state’s first offshore wind farm.

Ørsted, an offshore wind developer first in line to erect turbines off the New Jersey coast, hired two companies to bring the offshore power onto land. One company is from New Jersey while another is based in Kansas City.

Power plants in Pennsylvania are now required to pay a fee for every ton of Earth-warming carbon dioxide they release into the atmosphere. Here are the benefits to joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and how it works.

Businesses are making the effort to go “green” for the environment’s sake: and that includes the Philadelphia Eagles franchise and their Lincoln Financial Field. NBC10 First Alert meteorologist Bill Henley takes a rare tour of the environmentally friendly Linc.

There is no better way to experience the reality of climate change than to see glaciers calving and melting in Alaska. And the effects of this dramatic scene can be felt in ways that touch all parts of our world. NBCLX climate storyteller Chase Cain traveled to Alaska to get an up close look at the dramatic decline of Alaska’s...

New Jersey is spending $21 million on projects to help fight climate change

Sea level rise will force people to relocate to higher ground. But when that higher ground is already in demand, where do people go? That’s how climate change is accelerating gentrification, researchers say. NBCLX climate storyteller Chase Cain travels through Tampa and the Florida Keys to find out why.

Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration is asking the state’s highest court to let the centerpiece of his plan to fight climate change take effect and make Pennsylvania the first major fossil fuel state to adopt a carbon pricing policy

A Pennsylvania court is blocking the centerpiece of Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to fight climate change, the latest challenge to the Democrat’s effort to make Pennsylvania the first major fossil-fuel state to adopt a carbon pricing policy

Which path will the world take? While some warming is guaranteed, there are still changes that can be made to decrease world carbon emissions and slow the impact of climate change. NBCLX climate storyteller Chase Cain breaks down what we should do next.