"The Environment Programme report focuses on potential dangers to the planet, from disease to unlivable places."

"The latest flooding in Vermont has added fresh urgency to concerns about the hundreds of dams in the state, a third of which are more than a century old."

"A fairly controlled fire grew to a 10,000-hectare inferno over the course of a day, causing 9,600 residents of an eastern Canadian community to flee and putting a nearby community on evacuation alert."

"Michael, a resident of Richmond’s Southside who declined to share his last name, sat on Forest Hill Avenue waiting for a bus Tuesday just before 2 p.m., when a car thermometer recorded the temperature at 94 degrees."

"The long overdue federal heat standard proposal gets many things right but will take years to enact, and enforcement will be key, says climate health expert Juanita Constible."

"Colorado State University researchers are predicting that the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season will be more active than previously expected, according to a July forecast released Tuesday."

"The long-awaited rule will affect all federally funded reconstruction projects."

"After thousands of sequoias were destroyed by extreme wildfires, tribes are conducting cultural burns."

"As tracks heat up, they expand and buckle. That's forcing rail operators to adapt as the climate warms."