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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

Photo credit: Marius Dobilas/Shutterstock Representatives of Global Environment Facility (GEF) member states have approved $106.21 million in funding for urgently needed climate adaptation action in Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States. Spanning 20 countries, the 11 newly announced

In a world managing climate change with even a hint of rationality, each year for the oil and gas industry would be a bit worse than the last. This is not that world. In our continuing look back at 2024