climate change

Philadelphia will attempt to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 in the face of worsening effects of climate change, including hotter temperatures and more frequent and severe storms, Mayor Jim Kenney announced Friday.

Swedish teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg will appear on a postal stamp that will be issued Thursday in her native Sweden and is part of a series focusing on the environment

Wildfire smoke accounted for up to half of all health-damaging small particle air pollution in the western U.S. in recent years as warming temperatures fueled more destructive blazes, according to a study released Monday. Even as pollution emissions declined from other sources including vehicle exhaust and power plants, the amount from fires increased sharply, said researchers at Stanford University...

Extreme rainfall fueled by climate change has caused nearly $75 billion in flood damage in the U.S. in the past three decades, a new study shows.

The Arctic and northern Siberia saw the largest temperature surges in 2020, and Europe had its hottest year ever as global carbon emissions continued to rise.

Last year tied 2016 as the hottest year on record, European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Friday.

The six costliest disasters of 2020 occurred in the U.S., topped by Hurricane Laura’s devastation, which caused $13 billion in damage after hitting Louisiana.

Lower nighttime temperatures that typically provide critical relief from the hot days are disappearing as the climate changes.

President-elect Joe Biden has greater leeway to pass bold climate change legislation after Democrats clinched control of the U.S. Senate.

The two crucial Georgia runoff elections in which Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are looking to replace Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler will not only determine which party controls the Senate but the fate of the reforms that President-elect Joe Biden campaigned on. NBCLX’s Noah Pransky breaks down how this election will affect policy on climate change, coronavirus...

A Lancaster County farmer leased 30 acres of his land to a renewable energy company in 2012. For a few years, Community Energy’s solar farm was the largest in Pennsylvania. Farmland in Pennsylvania could help the state reverse its slide to the rear of the clean energy movement.

The coronavirus pandemic dominated the headlines in 2020, but that’s not all that happened this year. Here’s a look back at the seven other major news stories that were not about COVID-19.

Did you know during Christmas season the average American produces up to 25% more trash?

Demand for meat alternatives has grown and will continue to rise, but the industry still has hurdles to overcome in different parts of the world, analysts said.

A South Jersey port on the Delaware River is trying to become one of the first to get in on construction for offshore wind farms, which are expected to begin popping up all along the East Coast in the next decade.

A new study of the red knot, which famously flies from South America to the Canadian Artic, will determine the migratory route along the Jersey Shore.

Global carbon dioxide emissions will rebound next year and continue to surge unless the worldwide recovery effort from Covid-19 prioritizes climate change.

President-elect Joe Biden says the United States needs a unified, national response to dealing with climate change just as it has for COVID-19

President-elect Joe Biden has decided on the historic choice of Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico to head the Department of the Interior. The appointment would make her the first Native American Cabinet secretary. But why should we care about the Interior secretary? As NBCLX’s Fernando Hurtado explains, this underappreciated federal agency is more important than you think.

Regan will play a critical role in supporting Biden’s aggressive plan to battle climate change and transition the U.S. economy to clean energy.