From NPR Living with unhealthy wildfire smoke is becoming more common across the country. Western states have learned some key lessons in how to deal with it. (Image credit: Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images) Read the full article from…

From BBC Published10 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Surrey Fire and Rescue By Malcolm PriorBBC News Rural Affairs producer Firefighters will deploy new techniques learnt in the world’s worst wildfire hotspots as climate change raises the risk…

Climate change has been shown to affect the timing of reproduction in birds. Studies investigating the effects of higher temperatures have found that many bird species have started breeding earlier than in the past. However, little is known about the…

From NPR Everyone knows that red means danger, but how did purple become a cautionary color? At an EPA conference in the late 1990s, attendees nearly came to blows over color coding on the Air Quality Index. (Image credit: Aly…

The world won’t be able to limit global temperature rise as called for in the 2015 Paris Agreement without eventually eliminating the use of fossil fuels, according to Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on…

From NPR Population growth has long been a source of worry in India, which now has more people than China: 1.46 billion residents. But some experts are optimistic about the impact of this population boom. (Image credit: Punit Paranjpe/AFP via…

We live in a rapidly urbanizing world, with half of humanity now concentrated in cities. Without adequate and affordable housing, more than a billion people live in informal settlements or urban slums, which lack essential infrastructure and services such as…

As we head into the mid-year climate talks in Bonn, Germany, the corporate co-opting of the climate agenda has never been starker. Public pressure must be brought to bear on UN member states to reject the corporate-backed focus on carbon…

Mayra Parra presses play on her laptop, and the video on the screen comes to life for the Perez family in the town of Abriaquí, Colombia. As a spectacled bear ambles into view, scratching its back against a towering roble…