climate change

Think of this year’s drought as a sort of dress rehearsal to consider the drier, hotter future that scientists predict climate change has in store. Long-lasting droughts could alter the way we live.

Dry, hot conditions have baked crops throughout most of the Midwest and Great Plains, even in places that started out the growing season with excessive rains.

Climate experts say summer nights have gotten warmer. One study found the average minimum temperature in the United States has gotten warmer by 2.5 degrees over the last 50 years. For farmers, this means crops and livestock could suffer.

Agriculture companies are increasingly paying farmers to capture carbon. But some say the newly budding carbon marketplace isn’t enough to fight climate change.

Agriculture accounts for a tenth of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, which are a big driver of climate change worldwide. Some farmers in the U.S. are taking on climate change by trying to sink the air’s carbon in the ground.

Even with a few recent rains, much of the Great Plains are in a drought. Wildfires have swept across the grasslands and farmers are worried about how they’ll make it through the growing season.

The World Food Prize announced its 2022 laureate today, honoring a NASA climate scientist.

Some farmers and environmentalists say the federal program, which is heavily subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, discourages growers from adapting to climate change and should be redesigned.

As global leaders met in Glasgow, Scotland, over the past two weeks to discuss the effects of and potential policy solutions to climate change, Gov. JB…

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday signed a massive climate and energy plan into law — the last and hardest fought of his agenda items for his first…