Climate Antarctica is melting and we all need to adapt, a trio of climate analyses show West Antarctica is headed for decades of rapid melting no matter how quickly humans cut greenhouse gas emissions, and 2023 shattered records for missing sea ice around the continent. Rebecca Hersher
Climate Here's how Americans feel about climate change The majority of Americans think climate change will kill and displace a large number of people in the U.S. in the next 30 years, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. Rebecca Hersher
Environment Sewer water will soon heat buildings in South Lake Union. It (allegedly) won’t smell Wastewater will be heating five large buildings along South Lake Union’s Dexter street and Mercer street, as part of a new pilot program in King County. Natalie Akane Newcomb
Environment Tree lovers, building officials clash over greenery in Washington wildfire zones Tree advocates say the new requirement for “defensible space” around many homes will worsen the climate change that is making fires burn more often. John Ryan
Environment A new study points to a key window of opportunity to save Greenland's ice sheet Even if the planet warms more than 2 degrees Celsius, the ice sheet can be protected if temperatures cool back down quickly enough. Alejandra Borunda
Environment 21 species have been declared extinct, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says The species, including birds, mussels and a bat, have been moved off the threatened and endangered list. They join 650 other species that have gone extinct in the U.S. Ayana Archie
Health Major U.S. science group lays out a path to smooth the energy transtion The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine says putting equity at the center of climate and energy policy will help speed along necessary fossil fuel emission cuts Alejandra Borunda
Environment It's the warmest September on record thanks to El Niño and, yes, climate change A new government report finds that September 2023 was the hottest in the agency's 174-year global climate record. Climate change and El Niño are driving the heat. Julia Simon
