Changing Climate

An offshore wind project off Massachusetts that would create 800 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 400,000 homes, was approved by the federal government. The Vineyard Wind project, south of Martha’s Vineyard near Cape Cod, would be the first utility-scale wind power development in federal waters. The $2 billion project was approved Tu...

A giant sequoia has been found smoldering and smoking in a part of Sequoia National Park that burned in one of California’s huge wildfires last year.

NBC 6 Investigators reviewed data from the U.S. Census and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and found 416,536 people in 196,981 homes in Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe counties are in jeopardy when the sea level rises two feet.

The Senate vote on methane is the first official reinstatement of one of more than 100 climate regulations dismantled by the Trump administration.

In an effort to help their audience of at-home cooks be more environmentally friendly, digital magazine Epicurious will no longer share recipes made with beef.

America’s climate summit propelled the world forward on a path toward limiting the worst of global warming

A growing body of work illustrates how wildfire seasons made worse by climate change threaten not just immediate destruction but also long-term health

World leaders have joined President Joe Biden in closing his virtual climate summit. They shared stories Friday of their own drives to break free of climate-damaging fossil fuels. The summit showcased Kenyans leapfrogging from kerosene lamps to geothermal power and Israeli start-ups scrambling to improve battery storage.

Drought conditions now cover 85% of Mexico

The Transportation Department is moving to reverse former President Donald Trump’s bid to end California’s ability to set its own auto pollution standards.

A longtime environmental advocate and Democratic aide has been nominated by President Joe Biden to oversee roughly a quarter-billion acres of federally owned land in Western states.

China and Russia have joined the United States in pledging climate cooperation at a global summit led by President Joe Biden. The U.S. convened Thursday’s summit, which is being held virtually by livestream because of the pandemic, with an ambitious pledge to cut by at least one-half the climate-wrecking coal and petroleum fumes that America ...

President Joe Biden is convening a coalition of the willing, the unwilling, the desperate-for-help and the avid-for-money for a two-day summit aimed at rallying the world’s worst polluters to do more to slow climate change