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Wopke Hoekstra, the European Union’s Commissioner for Climate Action In this episode of Columbia Bizcast, we hear Wopke Hoekstra , the European Union’s Commissioner for Climate Action, share his perspectives on tackling one of the greatest challenges of our time.

Despite their reputation as buzzing nuisances, flies serve a critical role as some of the Earth’s most prolific pollinators. A new study led by Penn State scientists suggests that flies are increasingly at risk due to rising global temperatures. An

Nigel Manley with one of the Korean fir trees he’s been growing for the past few years on his Bethlehem, New Hampshire farm. Eleven days before Christmas, an outdoor firepit crackles next to the gift shop at South Farm in

Photo: iLab/CSIS This transcript is from a CSIS event hosted on December 19, 2024. Watch the full video here. Katherine E. Bliss: Climate change and global health, two fairly straightforward, simple terms, but put together they can generate a fair

The transition to a La Niña event in the tropical Pacific Ocean — which could have knock-on effects on weather patterns worldwide — isn’t going smoothly. Why it matters: The slow slide into a La Niña is revealing some of

Americans keep moving into areas that are vulnerable to storms. And weather disasters keep costing insurers lots of money. (Image credit: Getty Images) By Joel Mathis, The Week US American homeowners are experiencing the climate crisis in the most tangible

Copyright Vanauatu Red Cross Society/Vanauatu Red Cross Society via AP A recent study joins a growing body of evidence that climate influences seismic activity. Three days ago, a violent magnitude 7.3 quake struck just offshore from the Pacific nation of

Article Open access YanJing Zhang , Jie Hu , ChenBin Wang , YaQiong Wang , MuLan Ji , FangZhou Ma & YiQing Lu Scientific Reports 14 , Article number: 30579 (2024) Cite this article Metrics Abstract Invasive alien plants pose

Miccosukee Tribal elder Michael Frank speaks to members of a task force that brings together federal, state, tribal and local agencies working to restore and protect the Florida Everglades, on a field visit to the Miccosukee Indian Reservation ahead of

The risk of drying to animal species remains an understudied element of climate change, which is particularly important for water-sensitive groups such as anurans (frogs and toads). Writing in this issue of Nature Climate Change , Wu and colleagues map