WASHINGTON (AP) — Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions ...

A new study is the first to link rising temperatures with booming rat populations in cities around the world. Rising seas, intensifying droughts, worsening floods — these are well-known effects of ...

Yonder covers tribal and rural communities on the coast of the Pacific Northwest that are taking action to survive ...

One water manager described the situation — below-normal snowpack coupled with a statewide drought emergency — as "ominous." ...

As insect populations decrease worldwide in what some have called an "insect apocalypse," biologists are desperate to ...

Home, auto and health insurance rates are on the rise. Here's what insurance commissioner Patty Kuderer says her office can ...

Washington Democrats are pushing a new bill forcing farmers to track cow flatulence. It's easy to see a cow flatulence tax ...

Rat infestation in many world cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington, and a new study blames climate change, ...

A science-oriented advocacy group says the Earth is moving closer to destruction. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said ...

Climate change is an intensifier — a force that amplifies and worsens existing conditions. It increases the probability that extreme conditions will compound and become unprecedented.

Agriculture across the United States is facing significant challenges from climate variability and change, with specialty ...

WASHINGTON – The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Middle East Program and Environmental Change and Security ...