Umair Irfan

The extreme heat, high winds, and severe dry conditions that produce towering, fast-moving flames that advance by the acre are not just becoming more common; new research shows that these factors a...

The Trump administration is about to tear down a load-bearing ruling that considers climate change as a threat to Americans’ health.  Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is announcing that i...

Wildfires have consumed thousands of buildings, killed dozens of people, and smothered millions in choking smoke in recent years. Blazes like the Los Angeles wildfires in 2025 have also revealed th...

The world is hungrier than ever for energy.  Demand for heating, cooling, lighting, computing power, and just getting around is rising. In particular, the buildout of data centers to power technolo...

Already, a bitter burst of cold is gripping much of the country, and in the next few days, it will reach at least 45 states and extend across two-thirds of the country. It is one of the most extrem...

The Environmental Protection Agency is taking a major step toward changing its math to favor polluters over people: It’s going to stop tallying up the dollar value of lives saved and hospital visit...

The Associated Press this week reported a stunning fact: Of the 13,000 homes destroyed a year ago in the extraordinary wildfires in and around Los Angeles, fewer than a dozen have been rebuilt.  Th...

One of the biggest changes so far during President Donald Trump’s second term has been the steady degradation of basic data collection.  In some cases, moves have been driven by his ideological res...

For the last decade, global climate politics have revolved around a single number: 1.5 degrees Celsius.  The idea was that keeping the planet below this warming threshold would hold many of the wor...

Earlier this month, the real-estate listing site Zillow ended a subtle social experiment. In 2024, they began to embed climate risk data directly in their property profiles, scoring a home’s future...

What could you do with energy that’s cheap, clean, and near unlimited? You could live in a home built to your precise needs that stays cozy and cool all year long. You could swim in a heated pool f...