A polar bear outside Churchill, Hudson Bay, Canada in November 2016. Without the ice, the bears cannot hunt for seals. Photograph: Lars Ostenfeld

Canada’s Hudson Bay is as ice-free in November as on a summer’s day and polar bears could be extinct here by mid-century. If the bears are in trouble, so are we...

A car lies submerged in the Tall Timbers subdivision after flooding near Shreveport, La., on March 9, 2016, caused by torrential rains. Credit: REUTERS/Deputy Josh Cagle/Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office via Reuters

Rising temperatures could make extreme rainfall events occur up to five times more often across the US and drop up to 70 percent more rain...

President-elect Donald Trump speaks at rally in Baton Rouge, La. When it comes to climate change, Trump is sending mixed signals on whether or how he will try to slow the Earth’s warming temperatures and rising sea levels. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

With Inauguration Day a month away, business leaders are trying to grasp what the Trump Era will mean for them. Some, like the prominent tech executives who traveled to Trump Tower December 14, are doing their best to charm, and be charmed by, the President-elect. Others, like the Boeing executives who fell victim to a Trump Twitter storm after making some public comments in support of free trade, are learning that speaking out can be risky...

Yupik women prepare freshly caught salmon for curing. Yupik culture is threatened as sea ice melts. Photograph: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

In a year almost certain to be history’s hottest, drastic environmental changes are taking a toll on food supply and even language in Arctic communities...

Global warming has driven the loss of about three-quarters of the northern ice cap so far. Photograph: Nick Cobbing/Greenpeace

Soaring Arctic temperatures ‘strongly linked’ to recent extreme weather events, say scientists at cutting edge of climate change research...

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This article is the second in a two-part series by Tormod V. Burkey.
Part One: Can We Save the World? can be read here.

The Norwegian Meteorological institute has celebrated its 150th anniversary this year...

U.S. actor and UN Messenger of Peace Leonardo DiCaprio poses during arrivals for a screening of his documentary film ''Before the Flood'' at the United Nations in New York City, U.S. October 20, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tackling climate change is the "biggest economic opportunity" in the history of the United States, no matter who holds political office, said Hollywood star and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio...

Waves crash over coastal roads at Cleveleys near Blackpool in 2014. Photograph: John Giles/PA

A study of recent data suggests that only good fortune has so far saved coastal communities from a major flood...

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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Countries most dependent on agriculture are also at high risk of experiencing changes in climate over the next 30 years and face the biggest costs in dealing with the effects of extreme weather, according to a global climate index published on Monday...

Polar bears depend on Arctic sea ice for almost all aspects of their lives.Alan D. Wilson / WikimediaCommons

Killer whales and Greenland sharks could attack polar bears as well as eat their prey - seals...

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Plans released in November show commitment to transitioning from coal to clean energy to address air pollution and climate emissions...

Environment minister Jose Sarney Filho is opposing a bonfire of licensing laws (Pic: Marcos Oliveira/Agência Senado)

Jose Sarney Filho is at loggerheads with the rural lobby in Congress over a bill to tear up environmental protections...

Oysters cling to the shoreline at China Camp State Park in San Francisco Bay before a 2011 mass die-off. (Brian Cheng / UC Davis)

Climate change could supercharge the powerful storms often hailed for bringing drought-busting rains to California...

President-elect Donald Trump is nominating Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Here's what you need to know about him. (Video: Sarah Parnass, Osman Malik, Danielle Kunitz, Deirdra O'Regan, Adriana Usero/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

My Penn State colleagues looked with horror at the police tape across my office door...

Donald Trump. AP Photo/Jim Cole

A rundown of the people with ties to ALEC, the Koch brothers and federal land transfer legislation...

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Many of President Obama’s climate and environmental policies are unlikely to survive under President-elect Donald Trump...