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The move out of the Green Climate Fund threatens a program that has provided $19 billion to help poor nations adapt to a warming world.
In an executive order, Trump put an end to more than three decades of U.S. support for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the world's long-standing climate treaty.
As we say goodbye to 2025, we’re taking a look back at some of the significant weather events of the year. Fortunately, it was a quieter year (extreme weather-wise) in Connecticut compared to previous years.
Donald Trump is withdrawing the US from the world’s foundational treaty on climate change as part of a sweeping exit from collective global action.
When engineers and planners design roads, bridges and dams, they rely on hydrological models intended to protect infrastructure and communities from 50- and 100-year floods. But as climate change increases the frequency and severity of floods,
That included dangerous heat waves, which the WWA said were the world's deadliest extreme weather events in 2025. The researchers said some of the heat waves they studied in 2025 were 10 times more likely than they would have been a decade ago due to climate change.
Total damages caused by weather and climate events in the U.S. last year totaled $115 billion, according to Climate Central.
Last year was the third-highest year on record for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, according to new data from Climate Central. There were 23 such events in 2025, causing 276 fatalities and a total of $115 billion in damages.
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Organization plants 50 trees from different climates to prepare for environmental changes
TreesLouisville is planting trees from different climates across the region to prepare for future environmental changes through its Assisted Migration program.
Researchers are proposing a new strategy for local governments to make municipalities more resilient against climate change. The "compounded resilience" strategy lays out how local governments can take advantage of opportunities to both limit adverse impacts of climate change on their communities and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change.
The Trump administration said it’s pulling out of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Henna Hundal, delegate to UN Climate Change Conferences, joins Rahel Solomon to discuss.