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Will people continue to hike and bike the Arizona Trail? Extreme weather and land use challenges may test the limits.

Some environmentalists welcomed the last major surge in gasoline prices in the late 2000s as the kind of push that Americans needed to quit fossil fuels. This time around, the climate action movement ...

The Federal Reserve wants to see how banks are preparing for climate change. But critics have questioned whether its plan will yield much information. Turns out modeling catastrophic climate change is ...

Let’s say you’re heading to the movie theater to catch a quirky romantic comedy. Or you’re on Disney+ bingeing the latest Marvel superhero show after work. Or maybe you’re looking for a Netflix ...

A climate script consultancy has introduced a variation on the “Bechdel test,” a measure of women’s interactions in film, for climate change. The two-part test, created by the group Good Energy in ...

Good feminists or adept film buffs may be familiar with the Bechdel Test, a metric for gauging female representation in film. Created by comic author Alison Bechdel in the 1980s, a movie has to meet ...

Washington, D.C. — Today, 20 national environmental, public health, and climate advocacy organizations called on Congress to pass the “Climate Test” by putting the country on a clear path to cutting ...

Does climate change exist? And does a character know it? The Oscar-nominated films Nyad, left, Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One and Barbie met the criteria for a new challenge inspired by ...