Will people continue to hike and bike the Arizona Trail? Extreme weather and land use challenges may test the limits.

The Federal Reserve wants to see how banks are preparing for climate change. But critics have questioned whether its plan will yield much information. Turns out modeling catastrophic climate change is ...

Some environmentalists welcomed the last major surge in gasoline prices in the late 2000s as the kind of push that Americans needed to quit fossil fuels. This time around, the climate action movement ...

All eyes are on the rollout of the EU’s new carbon tax and clean energy technology in 2026 in a critical test of the world’s ...

Climate politics will be in the crucible today. The issue is at a crucial juncture, particularly with Democrats now optimistic about their chances of taking both the White House and the Senate.

The Federal Reserve's pilot climate scenario analysis involving six of the largest banks in the country began in earnest on Tuesday. Formally announced in September, the climate stress test program ...

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Bankers have shown this year they could handle a broadly destructive health pandemic that blindsided the world. But they’re also preparing for another headwind: climate change. As key financial ...

Calls by local leaders and experts for increased social spending to protect vulnerable households from climate-related ...

Governments around the world are gearing up to use an old regulatory tool for a new purpose: protecting the economy from climate change. Financial regulators for years have used “stress tests” to ...

Does climate change exist? And does a character know it? The Oscar-nominated films Nyad, left, Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One and Barbie met the criteria for a new challenge inspired by ...