A woman walks past the entrance to the Congress Center, venue for the World Economic Forum (WEF), in Davos on Jan. 13, 2017. Photographer: Michele Limina/Bloomberg

Donald Trump has often ridiculed global warming and promised to withdraw the U.S. from the accord signed in Paris in 2015. Yet despite the shift in political weather in Washington, the captains of business and finance gathered in Davos this week will spend a lot of time talking about climate change -- and how to make money from it...

The Climate Institute says 82% of poll respondents in rural and regional Australia and 81% of those in capital cities were concerned about increased droughts as a result of climate change. Photograph: kristianbell/Getty Images/RooM RF

Overwhelming majority believe they are living with the effects of warming and 46% say coal-fired power should be phased out...

Construction in 2013 near a wind farm in the northwest province of Gansu. More than 92,000 wind turbines have been built across China, capable of generating 145 gigawatts of electricity. Credit Carlos Barria/Reuters

JIUQUAN, China — On the edge of the Gobi Desert, the Jiuquan Wind Power Base stands as a symbol of China’s quest to dominate the world’s renewable energy market. With more than 7,000 turbines arranged in rows that stretch along the sandy horizon, it is one of the world’s largest wind farms, capable of generating enough electricity to power a small country...

An Indian Border Security Force soldier patrols near the fenced border with Pakistan in Suchetgarh, southwest of Jammu in this January 14, 2013 file picture. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta/Files

“A farmer in our border village knows exactly what to do in the face of exploding shells and bullets – but one really doesn’t have any idea how to deal with this drought"...

When climate deniers are desperate because the measurements don’t fit their claims, some of them take the final straw: they try to deny and discredit the data...

New scientific research suggests that the world faces an imminent oil crunch, which will trigger another financial crisis...

‘It’s like appointing Ronald McDonald to run the agriculture department.’ Photograph: Brian Harkin/Getty Images

Now a fossil fuel executive will run America’s foreign policy, right out in the open. Donald Trump gets credit for a kind of barbaric transparency...

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Climate denialists have been able to hide behind very misleading science. But this is far from the first time that science has been backstabbed by its own practitioners...

The Public Service Commission has removed its global warming web page from its web site. The PSC regulates utilities, including We Energies and its power plant in Pleasant Prairie in Kenosha County. MICHAEL SEARS/[email protected](Photo: MICHAEL SEARS / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

In addition to the Department of Natural Resources, a second state agency has scrubbed information on global warming from its website...

More than two-thirds of the world’s polar bears will be killed off by 2050 — the species completely gone from Alaska — because of thinning sea ice from global warming in the Arctic, government scientists forecast. (Subhankar Banerjee/Associated Press)

As the Arctic warms faster than any other place on the planet and sea ice declines, there is only one sure way to save polar bears from extinction, the government announced Monday: decisive action on climate change...

A new bill would outlaw utilities from providing power from large-scale wind farms like the Foote Creek Rim Wind Project. Credit: Getty Images

Coal supporters are pushing a bill that would bar utilities from using the state's abundant wind power to provide electricity within the state...

The White House

As President Obama steps down, here are 25 signs of hope, change and environmental progress from the past eight years...

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“It is very tempting to rely on what you are experiencing.”

A large pool of melt water over ice on top of the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean. Photograph: Operation IceBridge/Nasa

Danish and US researchers say warmer air and sea surface could lead to record lows of sea ice at north pole next year...

A rusty patched bumble bee is pictured in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. Aug. 7, 2015.
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The rusty patched bumble bee, a prized but vanishing pollinator once familiar to much of North America, was listed on Tuesday as an endangered species, becoming the first wild bee in the continental United States to gain such federal protection...

Water from the Sacramento River flows through some of the gates of the Sacramento Weir on Tuesday. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)

The state’s biggest reservoirs are swelling. The Sierra Nevada have seen as much snow, sleet, hail and rain as during the wettest years on record. Rainy Los Angeles feels more like London than Southern California.

So is the great California drought finally calling it quits?

Image: National Park Service

Just imagine: What if millions of people moved to the Arctic and devoted their lives to engineering a landscape that could help offset the global impacts of climate change?

Rex Tillerson, the former chief executive of ExxonMobil, testifies Wednesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson downplayed global warming’s dangers during a hearing into his nomination for secretary of state on Wednesday, refusing to rule out an American withdrawal from a climate treaty even as he acknowledged that “the risk of climate change does exist.”