Bolted into a concrete slab in a grassy field in Colesville, a 30-foot-tall metal tower with devices to measure weather conditions ranging from wind speed and direction to temperature and sunlight stands as one of the latest innovations employed by Montgomery County to improve its resiliency to climate change and track local impacts.

The city also took steps to respond to the extreme heat in 2025. A heat wave in June brought a 102-degree day that broke the city’s record for hottest June day, and Boston declared three heat emergencies over the summer — periods when the heat index reaches 95 degrees for two or more days.

The First State continues to take on greenhouse gas emissions in an update of Delaware's multi-year Climate Action Plan.

The action could make it more difficult for a future administration to rejoin the Paris climate accord, the agreement among most nations to fight climate change.

"There are lots of reasons to care about climate change, and we are not powerless to stop it and all of these negative impacts," writes Joyce Mercado. Here are some ways to help protect the climate in 2026.

Recognizing that climate change is affecting us in a variety of ways helps illuminate the reality of this problem.

By 2100, it predicted that if no action is taken to lower our fossil fuel use (a scenario called RCP8.5 by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) the permanent fall in GDP per capita compared to if there was no climate change would be 60pc. That is indeed a future of mass starvation.

CT should move rapidly to adopt clean technologies such as solar in many forms, solar plus battery storage, geothermal networks and wind.

Climate change is not a hoax and it is not partisan. It is blatantly obvious, has arrived with a vengeance, and will get worse if we fail to act. Raise your voices — scream — and support and join those who want to tackle climate change. Our children’s lives depend on it.