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Al Gore made waves for his work raising awareness on climate-change issues. Another poisonous environment has captured his attention as well: a climate that threatens reasonable public discourse.

Climate activists, loggers and wildlife biologists want to know whether Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey will fulfill her campaign pledge to pause logging on public land while the state develops a climate-focused forest plan. Although there is no official moratorium yet on commercial cutting in Massachusetts state forests, loggers say no new state contracts for timber harvesting have gone out to bid this year.

When two Colorado mountain towns considered steps to transition local homes and businesses away from fossil fuels, they ran into a powerful opponent: their local gas utility.

2023 was the hottest year ever recorded. That might make you feel sad, or angry. Or perhaps anxious, or guilty. Those feelings are normal, and you have a few options for how to react to them.

We’ve got 10-day weather forecasts. We’ve got NOAA seasonal outlook forecasts. But there’s a no man’s land in between, and that’s where predictions get…

An unassuming fungus that dwells in lakes and damp soil has proved to be the most potent killer of a large group of species ever documented. The victims…

Marine microbes support the entire ocean food chain, provide the oxygen we breathe, and may even help soften the blow of climate change. They're also…

Much of what we hear about rising sea levels consists of long-range projections hundreds of years in the future -- projections that mostly consider the…

As kids head back to school, attention is usually on the academics: teachers planning the first lessons, and parents making sure students haven’t lost too…

Sweeping global trends are changing the world. As climate change heats up the planet and pushes people to migrate, far-right politicians see both a threat and an opportunity.