Arctic sea ice minimums since 1979. Credit: NSIDC

Arctic sea ice is one of the grandaddy’s of climate indicators. And this grandaddy isn’t doing so good these days...

A Tesla logo hangs on a building outside of a Tesla dealership in New York, U.S., April 29, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Tesla Motors Inc said on Thursday it won a contract to provide a 20-megawatt energy storage system at a substation owned by California utility Southern California Edison Co (SCE_pe.A).

Hinkley Point C nuclear power station site is seen near Bridgwater, England, on Wednesday. | REUTERS

PARIS – As Britain greenlights its first new nuclear power plant in more than 20 years, experts diverge on the role of nuclear energy in the quest to cap global warming at less than 2 degrees Celsius...

Rangers in South Africa’s biggest wildlife park are to kill about 350 hippos and buffaloes threatened by the impact of a severe drought. The Guardian. 

About 350 hippos and buffaloes under threat in Kruger national park to be killed in attempt to prevent animals suffering...

CREDIT: AP PHOTO/EVAN VUCCI

It’s a laundry list of climate activists’ worst nightmares...

In this Dec. 9, 2015 photo, crews work on stopping a gas leak at a relief well at the Aliso Canyon facility above the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles. CREDIT: DEAN MUSGROVE/LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS VIA AP

This is the first of many settlements to be reached over the Porter Ranch leak...

The Pentagon ordered its officials in January to start incorporateing climate change into every major consideration, from weapons testing to preparing troops for war. Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP

A coalition of 25 prominent members of US national security community warn that higher temperatures and rising seas will inundate bases and fuel conflict...

Wisconsin governor Scott Walker holds up a dollar bill while speaking at the American Legislative Exchange Council in 2015. Photograph: Denis Poroy/AP

Sealed Wisconsin court documents from Scott Walker investigation expose extent of corporate influence on democratic process rarely seen by the public...

House Science Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX). CREDIT: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

The purpose of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has never been less clear than it was on Wednesday, when it held a hearing to deliberate over whether the committee has the authority to subpoena environmental groups and state attorneys general over an ongoing investigation into alleged fraud by Exxon...

Darrell Oswald on the family's ranch in Wing, N.D., trailed by his daughters, Audrey, 9, and Afton, 3. Photo © Eli Reichman

WING, N.D. — Darrell Oswald can be downright evangelical about the holistic approach he takes to cattle and rangeland management, a way of ranching that, when possible, mimics the cycles of nature at work 150 years ago when bison roamed the land his family now ranches...

A polar bear in the Arctic Svalbard islands. Photograph: Barcroft

Ship delivered dogs and flares to staff at Arctic weather station after they were encircled by 10 adult bears for two weeks...

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A federal program is bringing solar energy and other green technology to farms and small communities...

A village of indigenous Yanomami is seen during Brazil’s environmental agency operation earlier this spring against illegal gold mining on indigenous land, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, in Roraima state, Brazil. (Reuters/Bruno Kelly)

RIO DE JANEIRO–Brazil, the country that’s home to the largest tropical rainforest on Earth, ratified the Paris climate agreement Monday — making it the third-largest country for emissions, after the U.S. and China, to have done so...

In the San Bernardino Mountains, a couple lugs buckets as the flow from their well dwindles during a fifth year of drought...

Photo: Zoë Meyers/The Desert Sun

Make peace with climate, ecology and each other...

The global ecological system collapses and dies as human growth overruns natural ecosystems and climate. Our best hope is to declare peace with the natural world – starting with climate and old-growth forests – coming together as peace-makers of the rainbow for truth, love, justice, equity, and ecology...

The Indian city of Bengaluru, in Karnataka state, is under curfew after violent protests broke out in the area over the sharing of river water with neighboring Tamil Nadu state. (Reuters)

Authorities imposed a curfew Tuesday in India's tech hub of Bangalore to quell violence that erupted over a water-sharing agreement from a local river...

Global average temperature anomalies. Image: Weatherbell analytics

August 2016 was the warmest such month on record, according to preliminary data released by NASA on Monday. This further ensures that the year will beat 2015 for the dubious title of the warmest year on record...

When Watts Bar 2 is fully operational, it will be the 100th operating nuclear power plant in the US. Photograph: Bechtel

Unlike coal and natural gas plants that emit carbon emissions while producing electricity, nuclear generates none. So why aren’t more states getting onboard?

Julia Olson, chief legal counsel of Our Children's Trust, is helping 21 young people sue President Obama and the federal government over insufficient action on climate change.

Eugene, Oregon (CNN)Julia Olson is litigating what should be considered the most important court case in the United States: She's helping 21 kids, as young as age 9, sue the Obama administration over its insufficient action on climate change...

Scientists of the Protecting Ice Memory Project set up camp on the Col du Dome Glacier on August 15th, 2016 credit: Sarah Del Ben/Wild Touch/Foundation UGA

For the project, dubbed “Protecting Ice Memory,” researchers from France and Italy plan to create a repository of ice cores including the ones from Col du Dôme...