Climate Change

A scholar examining the intersection of climate anxiety, reproductive justice and race shares her research on how emotions about climate change are impacting folks’ plans to have kids.

En nuestra serie, Trabajadores Agotados, analizamos el impacto del calor extremo en los trabajadores

Experts say the Defense Department's decision to de-emphasize climate change will harm national security.

A team of researchers are launching an online AI tool that gives users up-to-date information about climate data and climate policies.

The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced the new rates last Friday. The insurance industry says inflation and climate change are driving up costs.

Owners of a Nash County farm say they should not have been cited by state labor officials in the death of a seasonal farmworker because of what his autopsy reveals.

Learn about how North Carolina is seeing the effects of a warming climate and what workers in some industries can do to protect themselves from heat-related illness.

Worsening heat from climate change is becoming increasingly hazardous to human health. WUNC explains in a comic informed by several experts how we physically respond when we're feeling too hot, what ways people become sick and die from the heat, and how we can prepare ourselves to better handle extremely hot days.

With a quickly warming climate, the push to implement heat-related protections for outdoor workers is even more urgent. Worker protections are a central issue in this year's race for North Carolina's labor commissioner.

Recent deaths are setting off a wake-up call across North Carolina about the harsh conditions outdoor workers face amid rising temperatures and scant workplace protections.