Climate in Crisis

This summer beat the record set by the Dust Bowl summer of 1936, when huge parts of the West and the Great Plains were parched by severe drought.

The world’s top medical journals have released a study that says climate change poses the biggest threat to public health just days after President Biden vowed strong action on climate change while touring damage from tropical storm Ida. Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Eric Rubin, joins News NOW to discuss what needs to change to mitigate the global impacts of climate change and why "global targets" are not enough. 

The map gives users the ability to see detailed information about local reefs, including different types of submarine structure like sand, rocks, seagrass and, of course, coral.

Many owners of flooded cars could find that, despite carrying insurance, they are out of luck when it comes to recouping their losses.

With climate change amplifying natural disasters, businesses focused on clean up are thriving — and Wall Street is buying in.

“We are going to see more climatic extremes because of climate change," said the World Meteorological Organization's secretary-general.

Climate change is altering some of the atmospheric and ocean dynamics that power hurricanes. That doesn't mean more hurricanes — but it does mean more dangerous ones.

"More rainfall can now fall than it could have 100 or 150 years ago, so we do now see the link with climate change," one climate researcher said.

Across the U.S., 4.4 million acres have already burned, compared to 2.7 million acres at the same point in last year's fire season.

The rare rainfall was only the third time in less than a decade that above-freezing temperatures were recorded at the highest point on the ice sheet.

While the White House is driving a proposal to accelerate electric vehicle usage to combat carbon emissions, advocacy groups say Black and brown neighborhoods must benefit, too.