Category: Climate

Ford President and CEO Jim Farley speaks at Louisville Assembly Plant as the company shares its plans to design and assemble breakthrough electric vehicles in America on August 11, 2025. President Donald Trump has made no secret of his disdain for electric vehicles and is slamming the brakes on government incentives to get them into…

Legionnaire’s disease has sickened more than 100 people in New York City and killed five. Climate change will push the bacteria to even more US cities. Air conditioners have been working overtime this hot summer, from those tiny window units to the massive AC towers that serve the tightly packed apartment buildings in major cities….

A NOAA hurricane specialist tracks Tropical Storm Erin’s progress on August 13, 2025, at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Erin was upgraded Friday morning from a tropical storm to a hurricane, a storm with sustained winds above 74 miles per hour, making it the first hurricane of the 2025 season. Despite a relatively calm…

Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat are two of the top three US plant-based meat companies, and they’re responding to ultra-processed food criticisms differently. | Scott Olson/Getty Images Beyond Meat is undergoing a makeover.  Last month, the popular plant-based meat company announced a new product — Beyond Ground — that, unlike its signature plant-based burger, sausage…

Wild reindeer search for food under the midnight sun on the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Circle. | Ben Birchall/PA Wire It’s bad enough that climate change is ruining the dream of a white Christmas for many people, as warming makes snow in some regions less likely. Now, apparently, it’s coming for reindeer, too. Reindeer…

A woman and her child on the Panbari tea estate in Assam, India. Over years, pregnant women working on the plantations have been subjected to long hours with little to no accommodation of their basic needs for food, hygiene, latrines, and lesser work loads. This story is a collaboration between Vox and Grist and builds…

A bald eagle perched on a tree in Seward, Alaska. The state has the largest bald eagle population in the country. | Hasan Akbas/Anadolu via Getty Images The Trump administration is worried, it would seem, about eagles — like, the big birds of prey with sharp talons and famously good eyesight.  Earlier this month, Interior…

This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every spring, Forest Service fire leaders meet to plan for the upcoming fire season. This year, some employees were shocked by the blunt remarks made during a meeting with forest supervisors and fire staff officers…

A cattle feedlot in Kansas. | Michael Hall/Getty Images Perhaps the most crucial idea for understanding our species’ future on this planet boils down to two boring words: land use. To mitigate climate change, humans will need to extract critical minerals to build vast numbers of photovoltaic cells and wind turbines. We’ll need millions of…

On summer evenings in the Midwest, the muggy air comes alive with a chorus of crickets, cicadas, and frogs — especially bullfrogs. Their booming mating calls sound like something between a foghorn and a didgeridoo.  As far as we know, summer here has always sounded like this. Bullfrogs are native to most of the Eastern…