"The most powerful countries in the world keep ratcheting up public funding for fossil fuel projects and increasing emissions—despite the fact that continued investment in dirty fuels could push us beyond the warming targets laid out in the Paris Agreement."

"Floodwater often contains pollutants and pathogens that can sicken and kill people in the aftermath of a storm."

"Environmentalists fear the sell-offs could keep those facilities operating for years into the future, worsening climate change."

"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service granted federal protections to the world’s tallest and heaviest penguin species Tuesday".

"Countries around the world are failing to live up to their commitments to fight climate change, pointing Earth toward a future marked by more intense flooding, wildfires, drought, heat waves and species extinction, according to a report issued Wednesday by the United Nations."

"In late July of 2018, massive wildfires blazed across Northern California. At the same time in Colorado, weather alerts went out warning of heavy thunderstorms and baseball-sized hail. The two disasters were separated by a thousand miles, but scientists are now finding they're connected."

"SOCASTEE, S.C. — On the day she would finally move to higher ground, Terri Straka awoke in the neighborhood where she had lived for three decades, but a place steadily becoming less recognizable."

"Countries are failing to meet international targets to stop global forest loss and degradation by 2030, according to a report. It is the first to measure progress since world leaders set the targets last year at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, UK."

"Carbon dioxide emissions from China-invested power plants overseas now stand at an estimated 245 million tonnes per year, about the same as the annual energy-related CO2 emissions from Spain or Thailand, new research showed on Tuesday."

"A cyclone roared into the Bangladesh coast on Tuesday, killing at least nine people, destroying houses, uprooting trees and disrupting road, power and communication links, officials said."