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The earth is a fragile place, a bit more so with each day that humans contribute to chemicals in the waste stream and overconsumption of resources. While it may seem like a benign daily activity, doing laundry traditionally...

A unique location and environmentally-friendly passive house design are what define this lovely home on the Czech Republic/German border. 750 meters above sea level and in the middle of a ridge within the Ore Mountains, it...

The phrase "global warming" gets tossed around a lot, but do we really understand what it means and how it will feel? In the groundbreaking Paris Agreement, 195 countries agreed to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius...

It's a familiar theme: each year, it seems, is the hottest year on record. The most recent climate change milestone in the U.S. occurred last month, when the country experienced its hottest May ever recorded. "Nature is...

India is experiencing a powerful and deadly dust storm season this year. Over the weekend, 71 people were killed as a result of dust storms and related thunderstorms. The affected area stretches from the eastern state of...

It's autumn in Australia, but you might not be able to tell from the weather. Record-breaking heat has gripped large swaths of the country — the government's Bureau of Meteorology said Sydney, Adelaide, and other locations...

Oceanic heatwaves have increased by 54 percent since 1925, posing a major threat to aquatic ecosystems. In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers outlined the cause and effects of underwater heatwaves...

Researchers have determined that countries around the world are failing to fulfill their greenhouse gas reduction commitments under the Paris climate agreement, inevitably subjecting the world to unpredictable extreme weather...

Heat is often plentiful during the daytime for people in developing countries - but at night, when they're cooking and the sun is down, they don't typically have access to that heat and must use a material like dung or wood...

Those who live in the Midwest United States understand how difficult it can be to eat local during winter. But for Russ Finch and his community, the task isn’t too difficult. A former mailman living in Nebraska, Finch designed...

Steel and glass manufacturing generates large amounts of waste heat that's not easy to capture - devices that do the job are either prohibitively expensive or don't work in the requisite high temperatures...

As the world works to keep temperature increase from climate change below 2 degrees Celsius, a smaller increase than that has already led to deadly heat in India...

Waste heat could be a valuable source of energy - if only we could find a way to capture it efficiently. Now two Duke University researchers have a plan to do just that. They have developed a new thermophotovoltaic device...

Emails and Instagram photos don't come without a carbon footprint: they're stored in data centers which continually battle excess heat and suck up electricity to cool servers...

Research reveals yet another loss we can anticipate at the hands of climate change: global productivity. Heat stress in lower income countries has already shortened work days, which could result in a net loss of $2 trillion...