climate change

A national survey of electric vehicle drivers from J.D. Power shows Americans generally love driving EVs, but there’s growing dissatisfaction around finding a working charging station. It’s even more problematic for those who don’t drive a Tesla. National climate reporter Chase Cain shows us what’s being done about the disconnect with EV chargers.

Many companies, philanthropic organizations and national and international entities tout the promise of alternative crops to fight climate change.

Extreme heat across Earth’s oceans coincides with the eighth consecutive month of record-breaking global temperatures. The relentless heat threatens marine life and could spell trouble for Atlantic hurricane season. National climate reporter Chase Cain dives in to what’s driving the record temperatures.

After back-to-back storms lashed the Northeast in January, rental properties Haim Levy owns in coastal Hampton, New Hampshire, were hammered by nearly two feet of water, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage and causing him to evacuate tenants to safer ground. “Put them in hotels and everything. So it was brutal, for everybody. And at the apartment...

NASA’s PACE satellite is now orbiting Earth, giving a more detailed look at plankton in our oceans and aerosols in our atmosphere. Scientists hope to better understand how climate change is affecting Earth’s carbon cycle. National climate reporter Chase Cain explains how, for scientists, it will be like coloring with a much bigger box of crayons.

A handful of super powerful tropical cyclones in the last decade has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6.

New research joins studies from NASA and NOAA in showing a clear link between climate change and more intense atmospheric rivers. The storms which flow off the Pacific Ocean are becoming increasingly wet, triggering more frequent flooding as the planet warms. National climate reporter Chase Cain explains how climate change is making atmospheric rivers more hazardous.

Insurance companies are reducing coverage in climate-dangerous markets, leaving many homeowners without affordable property insurance options.

Punxsutawney Phil’s predictions are increasingly wrong as climate change shortens winter. A new analysis of the groundhog’s forecast shows he would be twice as accurate if he always predicted an early spring. National climate reporter Chase Cain digs-in to how winter warming is affecting the tradition of Groundhog Day.

The most destructive floods are happening three times more often across the U.S. and climate change is driving that increase. National climate reporter Chase Cain explains the influence of global warming on flooding and extreme rainfall.

Human-caused climate change is making winter weather a lot weirder. Despite being the fastest warming season, we’re also experiencing twice as many outbreaks of cold Arctic air and even bigger snowstorms. National climate reporter Chase Cain explains the connections to our rapidly warming planet.

January 2024 is on track to be so warm that for the first time a 12-month period will exceed the 1.5-degree threshold, according to the European climate agency Copernicus Copernicus.

2023 was the hottest year on-record and by the largest margin yet, but how do we know that? National climate reporter Chase Cain got rare access to one of the world’s largest collections of weather and climate data at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. The archives include handwritten records from farmers, soldiers — even our country’s founding fathers.

New York City dwellers were abruptly awoken at the crack of dawn on Tuesday by an escalating, rumbling vibration that sirened a rush of police cars and fire trucks. What sounded the alarms for a possible explosion turned into a minor earthquake, a seemingly foreign experience to New Yorkers, but what turns out to be nature running its course. The…

What sounded the alarms for a possible explosion turned into a minor earthquake, a seemingly foreign experience to New Yorkers, but what turns out to be nature running its course. NBC New York’s Linda Gaudino chats with the geology experts.

Unprecedented global warming combined with El Niño pushed 2023 to break global records as the hottest year ever recorded. Many climate scientists also believe it was Earth’s hottest year in 125,000 years. National climate reporter Chase Cain breaks down the big takeaways from the heat and what it might mean for 2024.

2023 ends as the hottest year in human history, but the year also brought plenty of important climate action. National climate reporter Chase Cain highlights five wins for climate change this year.

The Biden administration is moving to conserve groves of old-growth trees on federal land by revising management plans for national forests and grasslands across the U.S.

Flood risk and climate change are pushing millions of people to move from their homes, according to a new study by the risk analysis firm First Street Foundation.

Visibly tired and frustrated top United Nations officials urged climate talks to push harder for an end to fossil fuels. Time seems to be running out both in the talks in Dubai and for action that could keep warming at or below the internationally agreed-upon threshold.