climate change

Here’s a problem you’ve probably run into when you go to a fast-food restaurant and order your favorite meal: When you pull up through the drive-thru and ask for ketchup or other sauces, you’re given pounds and pounds of single-use packets that you’ll never finish. So a lot of us just…throw them away. Turns out those little packets are...

Republicans are coming out swinging against Wall Street’s growing efforts to consider factors like long-term environmental risk in investment decisions, the latest indication that the GOP is willing to damage its relationship with big business to score culture war points.

Your fast food burger and fries comes with a supersized environmental price tag. From the methane emissions created by the beef industry to the sauce packets that get dumped into landfills, there are a number of reasons why fast food is hard on the planet. Here are some ways you can make a difference — starting by changing what you order.

Overfishing and climate change are causing trouble for the world’s salmon population in oceans and rivers – but what if your salmon didn’t need to be fished or farmed? Wildtype is using “cellular agriculture” to grow sushi-grade cuts of salmon and help fisheries recover. Co-founders Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck joined LX News to explain how it works.

Seaweed is found in everything from food and cosmetics to gardening products and packaging.

The last time a drought of this magnitude hit the American west, it was 800 A.D. Charlemagne was reigning as Holy Roman Emperor over in Europe. NBCLX climate storyteller Chase Cain shows you how climate change led to the current “megadrought” and how it is impacting farmers.

One group of New Jersey students won a national competition with a project aiming to combat climate change and food waste by creating their own soap using a sustainable ingredient from bugs. This team of over 30 high school students from the town of Princeton decided to swap out palm oil, a popular element in mass-produced goods, for an unorthodox…

Coldplay addressed backlash to the band’s partnership with an oil company that is tied to deforestation

The new policy makes it the first social network to prohibit users from sharing inaccurate data about climate.

Battles around who pays for rooftop solar are being waged across the country and could determine the future of renewable energy at homes.

Many climate scientists share a sense of optimism with professionals in other tough jobs like emergency room doctors and researchers who study Alzheimer’s Disease even as they chronicle a world losing its protective balance with the sun.

The Austin Bat Refuge in Texas takes care of “orphaned, injured and displaced bats” and nurses them back to health. “We’re kind of like a little bat hospital,” says Lee Mackenzie, who runs the refuge with his wife Diane Odegard. Greg Bledsoe takes his Family Geography Project to Austin to learn more about wild bats and the threats they...

The decision will keep more water in Lake Powell, the reservoir located at the Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona.

Are homebuyers thinking about climate change when settling on a place to live? NBC Rebound looks at how the environment is impacting real estate around the U.S.

Climate change is threatening small businesses across America, but these companies are rising up despite the challenges. In “Rebound,” we go behind the scenes with small businesses who are finding ways to pivot as more extreme storms, wildfires, rising sea levels and drought are changing the face of their communities. As the nation continues to battle challenges brought on by…

Americans are already facing a shortage of 4 million housing units, but climate change is going to make it a whole lot worse. Real estate experts say climate threats will make it harder to afford to live in cities across the U.S. as wildfires, foods and storms turn up the pressure on an already unsustainable housing market.

The Department of Energy will provide $3.1 billion to support efforts to make EV batteries and components in the U.S.

A tornado that barreled through parts of Kansas damaged multiple buildings, injured several people and left more than 6,500 people without power, officials said Saturday.

Music-lovers and musicians alike are banding together to fight climate change with the help of REVERB — a nonprofit with musician, venue and festival partnerships

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.