The timing of Donald Trump’s election victory, a few days before the opening of the COP29 global climate conference, could not have been worse, casting a long shadow over the 50,000 delegates gathered in Baku.

Until recently, some 200 Cedar Key farmers produced virtually every clam consumed in Florida, pulling in 120 million mollusks a year. Clamming had allowed them to fend off over-development and retain the island’s Old Florida charm that’s become so hard to find.

Democratic governors of two U.S. states pledged on Friday to keep building programs on renewable energy and curbing climate change after President-elect Donald Trump's victory this week.

In this episode of “Burning Questions,” host Amy Scott talks with Washington Post climate reporter Shannon Osaka to unpack what a second Donald Trump administration means for climate policy, how state climate measures performed,

Exxon Mobil Chairman and CEO Darren Woods is trying to influence the Trump administration ‘s climate change policy plans, pushing the president-elect to stay in the Paris climate agreement and reject carbon border taxes supported by some GOP members.

Across the country, voters elected new members to Congress who have promoted climate action at the state level and could prevent environmental laws from being weakened under Republican leadership.

They may be out of a job when Donald Trump takes office in two months, but US officials kept a busy schedule at UN climate talks, reminding jittery countries that global action had survived his first term.

As a mother, grandmother, and climate activist, I felt despair and grief. Climate change wasn’t on the ballot this election cycle. The subject barely made the debate stage, although one candidate once referred to it as a hoax while his newly designated most trusted advisor,

Days before the election, Bernie Sanders issued a dire warning to voters: "If Trump is elected, the struggle against climate change is over."

Climate change has become the ultimate luxury good: the richer you are, the more you fret about it. A few days before last week’s election, Senator Sanders issued a dire warning to voters: “If Donald Trump is elected, the struggle against climate change is over.”

At the U.N. climate talks, U.S. Climate Adviser John Podesta said that Trump will likely pull America out of the landmark Paris Agreement and try to roll back many of the Biden Administration’s signature climate moves,