A powerful new project at weather.com, United States of Climate Change, presents a state-by-state argument that the nation is only beginning to confront the reality of climate change.

As the United States confronts global warming in the decades ahead, not all states will suffer equally. Maine may benefit from milder winters. Florida, by contrast, could face major losses, as ...

Everyone loses out if others are affected, because we all rely on goods and services from other states and countries, said climate scientist Michael Mann, director of the Penn Center for Science ...

Climate change: Many of the states most at risk are also the least prepared ... States are not prepared In the United States, much of this responsibility falls to states and their local partners.

After going dark on the climate stage, United States reclaims the leadership role at COP26. Special climate envoy John Kerry launched initiatives and battled critics during the summit in Glasgow.

The United States joined the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, an international treaty, in 1992 and has attended its conferences — known as COP, for "Conference of Parties ...

Such a comprehensive reevaluation of the United States’ climate response needs to start with a national strategy. Although no proposal for adaptation will ever anticipate every eventuality, a national ...

But major obstacles stand in the way. The biggest is that properly diagnosing a death as climate-related requires time, training, and resources that many of the nation’s roughly 3,500 health ...

In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of forests burned around the globe. The fires sent veils of smoke and several billion tons of carbon dioxide into the ...

If the United States takes critical steps to recognize and protect climate migrants, it will signal that global asylum norms must shift to meet the twenty-first century threat of climate displacement.

The United States has undermined its global climate leadership through inconsistent policy shifts between administrations, such as Trump's reversal of Biden-era climate initiatives. Despite ongoing ...