Yale Climate Connections is a nonpartisan, multimedia service providing daily broadcast radio programming and original web-based reporting, commentary, and analysis on the issue of climate change.

Yale Climate Connections is a nonpartisan, multimedia service providing daily broadcast radio programming and original web-based reporting, commentary, and analysis on the issue of climate change.

Cars fill the parking lot of a grocery store in Lenexa, Kansas, on January 23, 2026, as a massive winter storm moves into the central and eastern United States. (Photo by Chase Castor/Getty Images) ...

Poor air quality is a long-standing problem in Los Angeles, where the first major outbreak of smog during World War II was so intense that some residents thought the city had been attacked by chemical ...

Discover how people across the country are reacting to the reality of climate change.

Eroded soil and debris blocking California’s Feather River on Feb. 27, 2017, after severe damage to the primary and emergency spillways of the Oroville Dam from heavy rains. (Image credit: DaleKolke, ...

The New Year has rung in with one of the most horrific wildfire events in world history: an urban firestorm in the Los Angeles metro area that has killed at least five people and reduced thousands of ...

A small dog sits on top of a Camp Fire evacuee's personal property in a car at a Walmart parking lot on November 16, 2018, in Chico, California. Fueled by high winds and low humidity the Camp Fire ...

Since 2015, Seattle has lowered speed limits across much of its road network, setting residential streets at 20 miles per hour and most larger urban corridors at 25 miles per hour. After these changes ...

As the world races to decarbonize everything from the electricity grid to industry, it faces particular problems with transportation — which alone is responsible for about a quarter of our planet’s ...

With high energy prices and increasing urgency to reduce fossil fuel burning, it makes sense to get the most out of every gallon of gasoline or kilowatt-hour of electricity. A previous post showed ...

I would normally ignore a book by a non-climate scientist promising “the truth about climate science that you aren’t getting elsewhere.” Such language is a red flag. But I’ve known the author of ...