A CHILDREN'S HEALTH EXPERT, SEEING OUR KIDS IMPERILED BY FOSSIL FUELS AND climate change, calls for a kids-first revamp of energy policies. Credit: World Bank

Fossil fuels represent a two-pronged attack on the health of children, a leading health scientist has warned. To foster health and well-being in future generations, society needs to dramatically decrease dependence on dirty energy...

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The Tibetan plateau has seen a rise of 0.3 degrees Celsius in temperature with each passing decade...

A farmer burns his dried-up rice on a paddy field stricken by drought in Soc Trang province in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam March 30, 2016. REUTERS/Kham

Worst drought in 90 years and seawater intrusion in Mekong River delta destroy fruit, rice and sugar crops...

Permafrost block of coastal tundra collapsed on Alaska’s Arctic Coast. Courtesy USGS Alaska Science Center.

In northernmost Alaska, permafrost is steadily warming and large amounts of thaw are expected by the end of the century. But for some spots, the thaw is about 70 years ahead of that predicted pace, new research shows...

Jeremy Albucher, 28, of Los Feliz cools off after playing in a pickup basketball game at North Hollywood Park on Thursday. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

The most severe heat wave so far this year is bearing down in Southern California, with temperatures likely to top 120 degrees...

Global temperature anomalies during May 2016. Image: NASA

Another month, another shattered global temperature record...

Statoil gas processing and CO2 removal offshore platform near Stavanger, Norway. Photograph: Reuters Staff/Reuters

Norway pledges to become climate neutral by 2030. Parliament approves radical proposal of accelerated emissions cuts and carbon offsetting to achieve climate goal 20 years earlier than planned...

Millions of dollars have been pouring into conservative media outlets and student journalism projects from the same groups funding climate science denial, a DeSmog analysis has found...

A health worker prepares insecticide before fumigating a neighborhood in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Jan. 27, 2016. Researchers around the world are now convinced the Zika virus can cause the birth defect microcephaly as well as Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that can result in paralysis. Photo by Alvin Baez/Files/Reuters

There are alarming signs the Zika virus is spreading rapidly in Puerto Rico, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday...

A Republican-led congressional committee sought on Friday to assert oversight over inquiries that about 20 states are making into Exxon Mobil and climate change, reiterating demands to know more about state attorneys general’s consultations with environmental groups...

An Indian woman surveys a dried lake bed following an intense heat wave in Bangalore. Indranil Mukherjee/AF/GettyImages

The Paris climate conference set the ambitious goal of finding ways to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, rather than the previous threshold of 2 degrees. But what would be the difference between a 1.5 and 2 degree world? And how realistic is such a target?

Fracking protest; photo credit: © Jacques-Jean Tiziou

Wenonah Hauter reflects on her new book, Frackopoly.

"The First Amendment does not protect false and misleading statements in the marketplace," the office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (pictured here) said in response to Exxon's June 15 lawsuit. Credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images

The company asks a federal court in Texas to block the investigation by Massachusetts prosecutors, citing its constitutional rights...

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Greenland, the Arctic nation that is basically one huge ice cube, is feeling rather balmy lately...

A nun reads Pope Francis’s encyclical, a collection of principles to guide Catholic teaching, entitled Laudato Si’, at its official presentation, on 18 June, 2015 at the Vatican. Photograph: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images

Four Australian Catholic orders are jointly and publicly divesting from coal, oil and gas: ‘We believe the Gospel asks no less of us’...

Crews work on stopping a gas leak at a relief well at the Aliso Canyon facility above the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles in December 2015. (Pool photo by Dean Musgrove/Los Angeles Daily News via AP)

The massive Aliso Canyon methane gas leak of late last year was already one for the record books...

California Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Kamala Harris takes questions from the media after being briefed on the Santa Barbara oil spill at Refugio State Beach, north of Goleta, Calif., on Thursday, June 4, 2015. CREDIT: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes

Congress is joining the battle over state investigations into whether ExxonMobil lied to the public about climate change...

Scientists began searching for human fingerprints on natural disasters in 2003. Our understanding is improving but is still limited. Seen here is damage from record rains over Colorado in 2013. Photo by Army Sgt. Jonathan C. Thibault, courtesy of Flickr.

On the one hand, we live in a changing world, and all extreme events are caused by both climate change and nature. On the other, scientists cannot find a human fingerprint in many extreme weather events with great confidence using the techniques they have at hand...

Dairy cows are a major source of methane pollution, which heats the atmosphere faster than carbon dioxide. Credit: John Upton

As signs emerge that the global energy sector is beginning to rein in what once had been unbridled levels of climate-changing pollution, new United Nations figures show pollution from farming is continuing to get worse...