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Poor nations have been disproportionately impacted by climate change, a grim new report by the anti-poverty charity found.

A carbon-negative vodka company makes its beverage literally out of thin air. Now that's booze you can use.

The Trump administration officially began the process of withdrawing the US from the landmark Paris climate agreement on Monday, in a move that surprised no one.The details: The step, which Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Twitter, starts the clock on a one-year waiting period that will end the day after the next presidential election.

General Mills is one of several big companies investing in regenerative agriculture. Will it reverse climate change or just help sell more products?

The news: In the third quarter of this year 40% of the UK’s electricity came from renewables like wind, biomass, and solar, while fossil fuels—virtually all gas in the UK’s case—made up 39%, according to climate change analysts Carbon Brief.

Sea levels could be around a meter (3.3 feet) higher and the Arctic could be ice-free in the summer by 2100, the UN’s climate science committee has concluded.Sea-level fears: This is 10 centimeters  (3.9 inches) higher than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted six years ago.

The world must invest $1.8 trillion by 2030 to prepare for the effects of global warming. A new report said the payoff could be four times that.

Archangel Ancient Tree Archive clones champion redwood trees, the biggest and tallest of their species, to preserve their genetics and to combat climate change.

While parts of the world have warmed or cooled in the past, modern climate change is happening just about everywhere at the same time.

One structure, two solutions to climate change issues: excess waste and extreme weather.

As the dangers and costs of climate change rise, policymakers are facing painful choices about how to decide which communities to protect.

And in more unsettling climate related news...

 

Researchers at Stanford and elsewhere also found climate change “substantially increased” the chance of armed conflict in a small portion of cases in the past century.

Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and other Democratic hopefuls are competing to deliver the most aggressive climate policy packages.

A newly unearthed journal from 1966 shows the coal industry, like the oil industry, was long aware of the threat of climate change.

It will start as a stand-alone course, but eventually be integrated into all subjects.

Climate change will soon expose a crippling problem embedded in the nation’s infrastructure. In fire-ravaged California, it already has.

Firm’s public calls for climate action contrast with backing for conservative thinktanks

The city plans to turn part of the 172-acre Governors Island south of Manhattan into a “living laboratory” for studying and coping with the effects of climate change, The New York Times reported Sunday.

New York City has a $20 billion plan to protect itself from climate change

A pumice "raft" the size of Manhattan is drifting towards Australia, bringing along with it new marine life that could help with the recovery of the Great Barrier Reef's corals that have seen rapid deterioration in recent years due to climate change.

Researchers find some species seem to be able to cope with global warming, but are still running out of time.

The city is now the largest on earth to pass such a measure.

Machine learning has the potential to make some real inroads against our biggest threat.

Machine learning has the potential to make some real inroads against our biggest threat.

Some of the world's largest companies estimate they face roughly $1 trillion in climate-related risks, with most of that looming in just the next five years.