When buying a cold-weather heat pump, Hawes says to check the lowest temperature rating, make sure the condenser has a base pan heater so it doesn’t freeze up, and look at the heating seasonal ...

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Electric heat pumps are rapidly gaining popularity. That’s good for the climate because they’re efficient and can run on clean electricity when it’s available. But their widespread use means power ...

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Michael E. Mann speaks at the National Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne Australia, in February 2020. (Photo credit: Julian Meehan / CC BY-NC 2.0) Michael E. Mann has served on the front lines of ...

It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s distraught about the state of the environment. “It’s crazy what we’re doing. It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time ...

Skincare has always been more challenging in the summer. And climate change has raised the level of difficulty, with frequent hot spells and more exposure to pollution from wildfires that can damage ...

A look at what we know and don’t yet know about how climate change could affect the paths of these storms — and the all-important question of how often they’ll make landfall. It’s well established ...

People walk through West Potomac Park during a snowstorm that dropped 5.9" in Washington, D.C., on February 11, 2025, with another 0.5" early on Feb. 12. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) When ...

KERRVILLE, TEXAS - JULY 13: A person pays their respects at a memorial honoring the lives lost in the flash floods that claimed lives on July at least 138 lives on July 13, 2025 in Kerville, Texas.

In 2023, the fast fashion giant Shein was everywhere. Crisscrossing the globe, airplanes ferried small packages of its ultra-cheap clothing from thousands of suppliers to tens of millions of customer ...

Since 2015, Seattle has lowered speed limits across much of its road network, setting residential streets at 20 miles per hour and most larger urban corridors at 25 miles per hour. After these changes ...