U.S. President Donald Trump is greeted by Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R) as he arrives to speak at a congressional Republican retreat in Philadelphia, U.S. January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Two major U.S. rules aimed at curbing corruption and pollution in the energy sector may be entirely wiped from the books by next week, after the Republican-led House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to repeal them...

Herring gulls fly over Lake Erie, Credit: Laszlo Ilyes/flickr

Scientists are seeing an uptick of the legacy toxic in Great Lakes fish and birds. Warming waters are the suspected culprit. More coal will make it worse...

Once fertile agricultural land in Kenya is being degraded by encroachment and the effects of climate change. Credit: Miriam Gathigah/IPS

NAIROBI, Jan 31 2017 (IPS) - Too hungry to play, hundreds of starving children in Tiaty Constituency of Baringo County instead sit by the fire, watching the pot boil, in the hope that it is only a matter of minutes before their next meal...

President Trump has proposed paying for his infrastructure plan with a fossil fuel boom, although the numbers don't easily add up. Credit: Getty Images

The president and his industry allies argue that a drilling boom will raise billions, but raising money through higher royalties and taxes is not a simple equation...

Melting ice is just one of many indicators of anthropogenic climate change. Pixabay

So far, Donald Trump’s ban on EPA employees speaking to the media is off to a rocky start – two of the agency’s staffers have already anonymously spoken to Reuters news agency this week to sound the alarm about the incoming President’s continuing efforts to suppress climate science...

Man carries his son in his arms during a daily walk at his property in Queensland, Australia that suffered from the country's longest drought on record. Almost 80% of the region was affected. The government approved emergency drought relief to assist eligible farmers. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

An unusually quiet period for cyclones in the Australian region may come to an abrupt end within days as forecasters predict a major storm will develop off the Kimberley by Friday...

Steam rises from the brown coal-fired power plant in Bergheim, Germany, 13 January 2017. Photograph: Sascha Steinbach/EPA

The research is clear – humans are responsible for all the global warming since 1950...

Protesters demonstrate against the new travel ban at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Jan. 28. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

Ubadah Sabbagh felt goose bumps rise on his skin Saturday morning as he scrolled through the reports that immigrants from the Middle East — people just like him — were no longer being allowed into the United States...

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Scientists fear President Trump's first week could preview an aggressive approach toward federal research, citing early orders on climate science and a clampdown on agencies' public communications...

The 7-mile-wide crater left on top of Mount Tambora in Indonesia after its volcanic eruption in 1815. (Iwan Setiyawan/AP Photo/KOMPAS)

This is not the first time in recent history that humanity has had to deal with a dramatic shift in the climate. To get a glimpse of the political and economic effects climate change might bring, we don’t need climate-modeling systems to look to the future—we need to go back 200 years in the past...

A fence along the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego. Activists and architects say a wall will cause serious environmental damage. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.

Architects have called the border wall a "pharaonic project" and a misplaced infrastructure priority. Environmentalists say it will continue to cut off the flow of water and wildlife in a changing climate but is little more than political grandstanding that won't keep out people...

CDC headquarters in Druid Hills, Georgia. Credit: Nrbelex Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 2.5)

Scheduled speakers cite political sensitivities, but the government’s disease-control agency has not offered a reason...

Doug Palen, a fourth-generation grain farmer in Glen Elder, Kan., uses a no-till farming method that prevents erosion and keeps carbon in the soil. Credit Christopher Smith for The New York Times

LEN ELDER, Kan. — Doug Palen, a fourth-generation grain farmer on Kansas’ wind-swept plains, is in the business of understanding the climate. Since 2012, he has choked through the harshest drought to hit the Great Plains in a century, punctuated by freakish snowstorms and suffocating gales of dust. His planting season starts earlier in the spring and pushes deeper into winter...

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Many conservationists are fearing the worst. Trump could be the most anti-environmental president ever to take office, and he will have the support of a Republican Congress...

Drifters: The polar bear cub snuggles against its mother as they drift 12 miles from land. Credit: Eric Lefranc/Solent

The role of the sea in melting the Arctic...

Saving BUB, Beautiful Unique Biodiversity, as in this arboreal Arabian Veiled Chameleon, is another reason to preserve carbon storing forests.

Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere passed the 400ppm level in 2016, according to data from the Mauna Loaa observatory (Pic: CucombreLibre/Flickr)

Scientists are opening rogue twitter accounts as new president seeks to limit ability of scientists to share findings openly...

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The threat posed by climate change is real and the potential impacts if climate prediction models are correct will be acute in Oregon, a team of researchers said in a report to the state's lawmakers...

The American Copper Buildings, just right of the Empire State Building, were designed so that tenants could live in their apartments for at least a week if the area floods. Credit Todd Heisler/The New York Times

There is a breathtaking view of the mid-Manhattan skyline, pierced by the Empire State Building, from the 48th floor of the taller of two new copper-clad apartment towers along the East River, just south of the United Nations...