Stop Climate Change, Save Lives

The massive social disruption caused by the pandemic offers important lessons to consider as we craft strategies for aggressive climate action.

We can’t ignore the profound and expensive human suffering triggered by climate change. Watch our video to see why.

Writer, editor, teacher, and podcast host Mary Annaïse Heglar uses the art of storytelling to help people feel less alone in facing the climate crisis—and to build the movement for climate justice.

The western city of Ahmedabad is preparing residents to cope with the longer and more intense heat waves sweeping across South Asia—and inspiring other Indian cities and states to follow suit.

A new study finds climate change fuels billions in health costs.

The Asuncion Valdivia Heat Illness and Fatality Prevention Act is a critical step to keeping American workers safe from the health threats of a warming world.

Fueled by climate change, extreme heat is causing more hospitalizations—and even deaths—across the country.

National security, environmental justice, scientific integrity, and the economy are just a few issues covered by the president’s sweeping climate strategy.

NRDC experts are headed to National Adaptation Forum this week, one of the most important gatherings of climate adaptation professionals in the United States.

If we don’t act now to curb climate change, we may be faced with the migration of a third of the world’s future population.

The most widespread, damaging storms on earth are getting worse, and climate change is a big reason why. Here’s a look at what causes hurricanes and how to address the threat of a wetter, windier world.

A growing number of communities—both coastal and inland—are finding themselves underwater. Extreme weather, sea level rise, and other climate change impacts are increasingly to blame. Here’s a look at what links flooding and our warming world.

Drought affects more people globally than any other natural disaster. Here’s what causes these prolonged dry spells and how we can mitigate their impact.

Fire-wise tips for your home, your garden beds, the fence line, and that marshmallow roast you’re planning.

How smog, soot, greenhouse gases, and other top air pollutants are affecting the planet—and your health.

The latest international report on climate change is sobering and scary. But it's still possible to deal with the present-day impacts of climate change and minimize future harm.

At least 31 villages now face imminent threats from climate change and may have to relocate, at a cost of as much as $200 million each.

Business, health, and government leaders from around the country and around the world gathered last week to step up their fight against the harms of climate change. It's time for President Trump to do the same.

The documentary “Cooked: Survival by Zip Code” examines the unnatural disasters of environmental and structural racism.

Prevention is the best medicine for Lyme disease—but we’ve got our work cut out for us as climate change gives ticks a warm welcome.

Climate change threatens the air you breathe.

About two-thirds of Americans live in areas with a greater-than-expected number of dangerous extreme heat days.

As rising carbon emissions boost smog and pollen production, even breathing can be a challenge. Here’s what you can do to help clear the air.

But plans to cut local carbon pollution might help this asthma capital shake its wheezy reputation.

Here's what you need to know about the vector-borne diseases now increasing with climate change—and how to protect yourself.

Climate change is an expensive and deadly problem.

By increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, we’re amplifying the planet’s natural greenhouse effect and turning up the dial on global warming.

Whether and how to uproot communities are difficult and painful questions, and we need to get better at answering them.

Watch these wax sculptures melt under the Florida sun to reveal important messages about climate change.

After Hurricane Laura hit Louisiana just days before the Katrina remembrance, photojournalism from 15 years ago reminds us that disaster preparation isn’t just about wind and water.