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Climate scientists and policymakers have long warned of a dangerous threshold: If global temperatures rise more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial averages, we risk devastating consequences, including severe flooding, heat waves, and drought.

An eastern box turtle living in the New Hope Creek watershed near Duke’s campus wants to leave its habitat in search of resources or a mate.

Beginning in the late 1990s, air pollution declined in New York City following the implementation of clean air and climate policies.

The severe, drought-fueled fires now burning across much of the American West and Canada may be scorching forests so thoroughly that they cannot recover to the forests they once were, new research shows.

Certain kinds of clouds are misbehaving – appearing more often and lower in the sky than they used to.