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The Ames-based Midwest Climate Hub, along with 10 regional climate hubs under USDA , is slated to be cut from the federal ...
A new book traces the environmental collapse of a crucial ecosystem and how its return could fight climate change.
Tens of millions of people sweltered across the U.S. Northeast and Midwest as record-high heat disrupted electricity supplies ...
Extreme heat is only becoming more common. In the United States, heat waves now occur three times as often as they did in the ...
Meteorologists say a phenomenon known as a heat dome, a large area of high pressure in the upper atmosphere that traps heat ...
St. Louis, Chicago and Des Moines were among the cities that saw heat indexes hit triple digits on Saturday, with the East ...
And certain crops in higher-income regions, such as corn and wheat in the U.S. Midwest and wheat in Canada's Prairies, could see some of the bigger losses compared to crops in developing countries ...
Umair Irfan is a correspondent at Vox writing about climate change, energy policy, and science. He is also a regular ...
The SRCC also collaborates with the Midwest, High Plains, and Southeast regional climate centers to gather weather data across 21 states, and they share drought condition information, which is ...
The deadly storms that tore through eight U.S. states in early April, killing at least 24 people, were made significantly worse by climate change, according to a study released this week. Analysis ...
Human-caused climate change intensified deadly rainfall in Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and other states in early April and made those storms more likely to occur, according to an analysis ...
Both the SRCC and the Midwest Regional Climate Center — which covers nine states — were among those whose climate data services were restored on April 21 following an influx of online support.