climate change

The threats Kentuckians face from climate change are growing. So long as there are greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, warming is virtually guaranteed to continue harming human health, the economy, infrastructure and food systems, according to the latest federal report on climate change released Tuesday.

A $100,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency is going to fuel research by KAEE and its partners in the Southeastern Environmental Education Alliance (SEEA) into barriers educators face when teaching about climate change.

Young environmentalists won a landmark case in Montana on Monday when a court ruled the state violated their right to a healthy environment by permitting fossil fuel development without considering its impacts on climate change. The decision hinges on constitutional language that some Democrats in Kentucky have pushed for years.

Experts and industrial leaders, along with federal and state officials, are coming together in far western Kentucky this week to talk about the future of nuclear energy, saying it should be an important part of transitioning to non-carbon-based fuel sources and mitigating climate change.

Louisville, Lexington taking part in program, Bowling Green considering it

A Gallup poll released last week found that one in three Americans – and nearly half of Southerners – say their lives have been impacted by ‘extreme’ weather over the past two years.

Climate scientists warn this may be humanity’s last chance to avert the worst impacts of warming as Kentucky stalls on climate action.

One of the Republican frontrunners for governor in Kentucky has a track record of undermining policies to combat climate change. It’s a strategy researchers say could hurt the state’s long-term prosperity.

Amid the intertwining crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, a 2-century-old Catholic convent outside Loretto, Ky. has signed a conservation easement to protect more than 650 acres of natural lands.

Across Tennessee, landfills are emitting methane. Cement factories, which support the concrete industry, produce massive amounts of carbon dioxide. Airports, steel plants and the oil refinery in Memphis are big emitters.