Highway 63 is washed out in the Town of Grand View in Bayfield County in July 2016 due to heavy rains. More flooding is predicited with climate change. State emergency planners posted information online last week on climate change planning.(Photo: Photo courtesy of Ready Wisconsin, Photo courtesy of Ready Wisconsin)

In a shift from the practice of two other state agencies, Wisconsin emergency management officials have released new information on climate change and its implications for the state...

A truck engine is tested for pollution exiting its exhaust pipe as California Air Resources field representatives (unseen) work a checkpoint set up to inspect heavy-duty trucks traveling near the Mexican-U.S. border in Otay Mesa, California September 10, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Blake

California released new measures to fight climate change within minutes of Donald Trump being sworn in as U.S. president on Friday, signaling the state's commitment to be the nation's environmental steward under an administration that has questioned the reality of global warming...

The New York Times wants to innovate its coverage of climate change

They’re going to hire someone else. I think I’m still right...

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This week’s top climate politics and policy stories...

High-carbon industries have no future (credit: Pixabay)

You can’t understand what Trump’s doing to America without understanding the “Carbon Bubble”...

(above) In Donald Trump's vision of America, some parts of the country's future look a lot like its past. Exhibit A: his promise to revive the flagging coal industry...

China says it will invest another $361 billion in renewable energy over the next four years and create 13 million new jobs in the sector, building on already massive investments over the past decade. The country already has the largest capacity of solar power, including this array of photovoltaic panels in Jiangsu Province. Credit: Reuters

Moose grazing in Franconia, N.H., in the summer of 2010. Researchers say that over the past few years, about 70 percent of the moose calves they tagged in certain regions of northern New England have been killed by ticks. Credit Jim Cole/Associated Press

Several times a year, Nathan Theriault will be walking deep in the Maine woods and make a gruesome discovery: a dead moose, thin and crawling with ticks...

Ice in the Arctic Ocean’s Chukchi Sea region. “What’s going on in the Arctic is really very impressive; this year was ridiculously off the chart,” said Gavin A. Schmidt, the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Credit Esther Horvath

Marking another milestone for a changing planet, scientists reported on Wednesday that the Earth reached its highest temperature on record in 2016, trouncing a record set only a year earlier, which beat one set in 2014. It is the first time in the modern era of global warming data that temperatures have blown past the previous record three years in a row...

A woman searches for dry land after a flood in Bangladesh, a country already affected by cyclones, floods and drought Probal Rashid

Dr Gavin Schmidt, director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies, describes suggestions that climate change had slowed down or stopped as ‘delusional’ and ‘bunk’...

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

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“A thermometer isn’t Democrat or Republican.”

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Donald Trump's nominees were grilled in the senate ahead of his inauguration in Washington on Friday (Pic: Pixabay)

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A farmworker plants corn in Princeton, Ill. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)

Out of the many consequences of climate change, from melting glaciers to changing weather patterns, its effect on agriculture has emerged as one of the most complex issues for scientists to investigate. It’s also among the most globally significant... 

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One of President-elect Trump’s most controversial nominees is Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general tapped to head the Environmental Protection Agency — an agency he has sued repeatedly...

Small waves crash over rocks across the harbor from the Sydney city skyline May 23, 2011. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne

Sea levels could rise by a greater-than-expected six meters (20 ft) over many centuries even if governments cap global warming around current levels, scientists said on Thursday, based on clues from an ancient warm period...

The crack that looks set to spawn a giant iceberg in the Antarctic has continued to spread...

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at a news conference Sept. 21, 2015, in Madison, Wis. (Morry Gash/Associated Press)

Information on the science of human-caused climate change has begun to disappear from Wisconsin state government websites...