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When buying a cold-weather heat pump, Hawes says to check the lowest temperature rating, make sure the condenser has a base pan heater so it doesn’t freeze up, and look at the heating seasonal ...

Electric heat pumps are rapidly gaining popularity. That’s good for the climate because they’re efficient and can run on clean electricity when it’s available. But their widespread use means power ...

This article has been adapted and republished with permission of the authors. We are facing a wide range of enormous environmental crises, including biodiversity loss and climate change. Human ...

Imagine a home so efficient that it could be heated with a hair dryer. That’s the promise of a passive house, a design standard that’s becoming increasingly popular in the architecture community for ...

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 ...

A look at what we know and don’t yet know about how climate change could affect the paths of these storms — and the all-important question of how often they’ll make landfall. It’s well established ...

Like Baby Bear’s porridge to Goldilocks, for thousands of years, the climate over much of the planet was neither too hot nor too cold but “just right.” Those ideal conditions enabled people to develop ...

Extinction Rebellion Protesters outside the headquarters of JP Morgan, Bournemouth, protesting about the companies' use of fossil fuel. (Photo credit: Nick Fewings / Unsplash) On a cold October ...

Nathan Sharpe grieves at the entrance to the Hunt city square on July 9, 2025, in Hunt, Texas, after heavy rainfall caused severe flash flooding throughout the hill country and various cities along ...

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 ...

People walk through West Potomac Park during a snowstorm that dropped 5.9" in Washington, D.C., on February 11, 2025, with another 0.5" early on Feb. 12. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) When ...