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Proponents say heat pumps performed admirably during last week’s cold snap — and they are becoming more popular, despite a campaign by the fossil fuel industry to discredit them.

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed increasing the amount of ethanol and other biofuels that must be blended into the nation's fuel supplies over the next three years.

CT Public meteorologist Garett Argianas says there's an El Niño in the Pacific Ocean, and that often brings warmer and wetter conditions to Connecticut.

John Bunker has spent the past fifty years learning everything he can about North American apple varieties.

NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Dennis Whyte of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT, about what the expected announcement about fusion energy means for climate and energy sustainability on Earth.

As much of the Eastern U.S. experiences potentially record-breaking daytime temperatures, the nights are also staying unusually warm, leaving the human body no time to recover.

Climate change is complicating the lives of subsistence rice farmers in Madagascar. For years, the wet and dry seasons arrived predictably. No more. To survive, farmers are looking to diversify.

The Northeast Fisheries Science Center is celebrating its 150th anniversary. CAI's Kathryn Eident talks with Science and Research Director Jon Hare about the lab's impact on marine science and on the village of Woods Hole.

It's been two years since the heads of most leading economies met in person. "We can finally look at the future with great — or with some — optimism," said Italy's Mario Draghi, the summit host.

Climate change is causing ice caps and glaciers to disappear. One animal that the ice melt is affecting is the North Atlantic right whale.