climate crisis

Millions of Millennials and Gen Z feel anxiety, dread, or grief about the accelerating effects of climate change. However, there are tools which might help you cope with those difficult emotions.

Choosing to move away from climate threats is known as “managed retreat,” but the name often draws negative reactions. How will communities react when it becomes clear that staying put is no longer an option?

Climate change is defined as the long-term shifts in weather patterns and temperature. Look at how a rise in sea levels could change popular sites in New York and New Jersey.

Human impacts on our environment are affecting our communities on a hyperlocal level. New York and New Jersey residents are taking action by reversing negative influences and restoring natural solutions attached to our shoreline. NBC 4’s Linda Gaudino brings the new digital-first special report Chasing Our Climate.

As climate change continues to impact the planet and communities we live in, one thing you can do to take action is more simple than you think. LX News Climate storyteller Chase Cain spoke to the former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on Tuesday to discuss steps and actions people can take to help with climate change. Gore’s advice: go...

Greenland has more than 120 trillion tons of ice that is doomed to melt from the warming ice sheet’s inability to replenish its edges

A five-day, 50-mile protest walk across northern New Jersey wrapped Saturday across the river from the home of Gov. Phil Murphy. Dozens of climate activists made all or at least some days of the march last week — trying to get the governor to stop plans for several new fossil fuel projects. Murphy has been vocal about transitioning from fossil…

Dozens of climate activists completed a 5-day march, culminating in a rally across the river from the home of Gov. Phil Murphy.

As nearly a third of the U.S. faces heat advisories, President Joe Biden spoke from Massachusetts on Wednesday to pledge executive action to combat the climate crisis. However, he stopped short of declaring a federal emergency on climate.

La Niña, the flip side of the better known El Niño weather condition, keeps popping up. La Niña is the natural but temporary cooling of parts of the Pacific that changes weather worldwide.

Citing more than 34,000 pieces of peer-reviewed research, 270 scientists from around the world published the UN IPCC report on climate change, warning global leaders to act now to secure a safe climate future. Besides reducing carbon emissions, the report calls for more investment to protect from worsening natural disasters, NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain explains.

Humans have never felt the impact of climate change more than recently, and those effects will only accelerate in the coming years. Food and water will become more scarce, diseases more prevalent, weather more extreme, and the death toll of climate change will only increase without drastic efforts to combat global warming. That’s the broad agreement from a group...

If you listen to interviews with astronauts talking about their first time seeing Earth from space, you’ll notice similarities in their reactions. “We really do all exist on one small globe. When you get out 240,000 miles, it really isn’t a very large Earth,” Frank Borman told Congress after his Apollo 8 flight. Canadian astronaut and former commander of the…

Climate change has already started eroding many of the Earth’s wonders that humans have taken for granted for centuries, from the Amazon rainforest to North Carolina’s Outer Banks. In the next part of his Climate Change Survival Guide, NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain shares how taking time to enjoy nature and be grateful for our planet can motivate us to take...

It can feel like 2021 only brought bad news with extreme weather, an ongoing pandemic and many people experiencing financial struggles. Severe storms, largely influenced by climate change, caused roughly $120 billion in damage globally. January 2021 brought destructive floods to California. A couple of weeks later, a historic winter storm shut down much of the Texas power grid, costing…

The news about climate change wasn’t ALL bad in 2021. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain shares eight good things that happened for the environment this year, including new standards for fuel economy, a pledge to end deforestation and a movement encouraging major investors to divest from fossil fuel companies.

December is typically the least active month for tornadoes in the United States, but a powerful outbreak of more than 30 tornadoes hit six states in the mid-Mississippi River Valley Friday night, killing at least 88 people. Scientists still have a lot to learn about the connection between climate change and tornado outbreaks because any links between them are “difficult…

Eunice Newton Foote’s research foreshadowed how both climate change and women would be treated by society.

Researchers have been sounding the alarm on climate change since the 1800s, but time and again, these warnings have been ignored. NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain takes a look at the history of climate change and how we got to this point.

Jalyn Henderson provided reporting for this story. As if extreme weather, a housing crisis and long gas station lines weren’t bad enough, climate change has started chipping away at one of the simple pleasures of this time of year: fall foliage. Warmer temperatures and the resulting threats to forests have impacted the process that makes leaves change color, leading...