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Extreme heat poses significant and growing health risk to babies and children, study shows
"Almost nobody was considering climate change a health problem at the time," Bernstein, the interim director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at…
Environmental groups sue Biden administration to block 3,500 oil and gas drilling permits
The environmental groups filed the lawsuit in the District Court of Washington, DC, against the Bureau of Land Management, saying the permit approvals in Wyoming and New Mexico…
George Pataki Fast Facts
George Pataki's political careerFormer New York Gov. George Pataki announces his candidacy for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination May 28 in New Hampshire. George Pataki's…
Federal watchdog found oil and gas company likely defrauded government amid agency missteps
Interior's Office of the Inspector General found that an energy company operating in the Gulf of Mexico -- which it declined to name -- hid its regulatory violations from the…
Satellite spots world’s ‘largest’ methane leak in a Russian coal mine
The Raspadskya Mine in Kemerovo region in southern Russia is releasing nearly 90 tonnes of methane every hour, according to new data from GHGSat, a company that uses satellites to…
Xi Jinping Fast Facts
Father: Xi Zhongxun, revolutionary and vice premierMother: Qi XinMarriages: Peng Liyuan (1987-present); Ke Lingling (divorced)Children: with Peng Liyuan: Xi MingzeEducation:…
This may be the most creative path to mental health you’ve never tried
Feeling desperate in my heartbreak, I was willing to try anything. As Emily Dickinson wisely advised:I wrote more than two dozen poems in the following weeks. Artistically…
Fiji says Asia’s biggest security threat is climate change, not conflict
The low-lying Pacific islands, which include Fiji, Tonga and Samoa, are some of the most vulnerable countries in the world to the extreme weather events caused by climate…
Torrential rains kill dozens in southern China
In recent weeks, heavy rainfall has triggered severe flooding and landslides in large swathes of southern China, damaging homes, crops and roads.In Guangxi province, landslides…
Oil and gas companies likely underreporting methane emissions leaks, new investigation shows
The investigation Science Committee staff -- based on internal data from oil and gas companies -- found that companies are "failing to design, equip and inform" their methane…