“I’m told that Australian teens, in preparation for this ban, have been exchanging phone numbers with each other.”

Faced with an affordability crisis and rising energy demands, Gov. Kathy Hochul has slowed progress on New York’s efforts to fight climate change.

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In the Ozarks, the growing college town of Fayetteville, Ark., is using clean energy to power city facilities and embracing nature-based solutions to climate threats.

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Although nature is sometimes very fragile, decades of conservation rhetoric have perhaps overstated that fragility.

New research shows that climate change is beginning to erode home prices in the most disaster-prone areas of the United States. Here’s what to know.