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We’re under attack from climate change—and our only hope is to mobilize like we did in WWII...

Wind turbines spin at the Foote Creek Rim site in Carbon County, Wyo. (Michael Smith / Getty Images)

Who owns the wind???

The Pacific coast has witnessed record numbers of dead Cassin’s auklets this winter. Photograph: D. Derickson/COASST

Wide-scale disruption from warming oceans is increasing, but they could change our understanding of the climate...

This image provided by the National Weather Service shows temperatures in the continental United States during a heat wave on Friday, July 22, 2016. The weather service outlook for the following three months shows above normal temperatures across the country. (National Weather Service via AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tempers are rising in America, along with the temperatures...

Land owners and farmers in rural Eastern North Carolina are leasing out their land to companies who are installing solar farms to sell energy to the utility grid. Tim Dominick MCT

Summer in North Carolina has always been hot. And while weather will fluctuate for many reasons, no reasonable doubt remains that our dependence on fossil fuels is to blame for the relentless rise of global temperatures we are witnessing...

Iraqis jump off the ruins of an old building into the Tigris River to beat the heat in Baghdad on Aug. 1. The temperature in Baghdad reached 117 degrees. (Ali Abdul Hassan/AP)

BAGHDAD — Record-shattering temperatures this summer have scorched countries from Morocco to Saudi Arabia and beyond, as climate experts warn that the severe weather could be a harbinger of worse to come...

Thousands of California sea lions, such as this one on rocks near Canada’s Vancouver Island, died in 2014 and 2015. Many starved as they struggled to find food in an unusually warm eastern Pacific. Credit: Paul Nicklen

When a deadly patch of warm water shocked the West Coast, some feared it was a preview of our future oceans...

Douglas firs. Credit: MARSHAL HEDIN Flickr

Drier soil plus drier air causes Douglas firs to shut down...

A boy plays in a fountain in Washington, D.C. during a heat wave. Image: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

From New Orleans to Portland, Maine, the heat and humidity has hit oppressive levels for the second long stretch this summer. In New York City, for example, entire blocks smell like hot garbage, and the air feels like a wet blanket, with heat indices approaching 110 degrees Fahrenheit...

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"The Madhouse Effect" explains climate science and politics in plain English...

Residents wade through a flooded street in San Mateo, Rizal province on August 13 (AFP Photo/Noel Celis)

Five people have been killed in the Philippines and tens of thousands have fled from floods caused by days of unrelenting rain, rescuers said Sunday...

Floodwaters surge from a crack in the parking lot on the corner of highways 584 and 51 in Osyka, Miss., early Friday, Aug. 12, 2016. Flooding is also affecting areas of southwest Mississippi just north of the Louisiana state line. (Matt Williamson/Enterprise-Journal via AP)

As the Louisiana floodwaters swallowed Lyn Gibson's two-story home, she hacked away on a hole near the roof, desperately trying to get to safety...

Saving BUB, beautiful unique biodiversity, like this painted bunting that lives in southern US woods, is another reason to conserve carbon storing forests. Credit B. Hoag

Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded... 

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A solar array installed at a winery near McMinnville, Oregon. (Photo: George Rose/Getty Images)

Replacing coal-fired electricity with ever-cheaper wind and solar power will raise utility rates just 0.1 percent by 2030...

Smog descends on downtown Los Angeles during a November afternoon in 2015. (Los Angeles Times)

Southern California is experiencing its worst smog in years this summer as heat and stagnant weather increase the number of bad air days and drive up ozone pollution to levels not seen since 2009...

Andalusia in the summer.  Zu Sanchez Photography—Getty Images

Nighttime temperatures are rising faster than daytime temperatures...