Climate change

Keeping score on Earth’s sea-level-rise

An international collaboration among dozens of scientists has come within less than a millimeter of attaining a long-sought goal: accounting…

6 months ago

Climate Change Is Driving a Global Water Trade You Can’t See

Every manifestation of the ­dangerous weather wreaking havoc around the world has one thing in common: water. As the Earth’s…

6 months ago

Scientists Disagree About Drivers of September’s Global Temperature Spike, but It Has Most of Them Worried

A woman reacts as a wildfire burns at Palem Raya Regency in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatera, Indonesia on September 18,…

6 months ago

Eelgrass Meadows Power Biodiversity and Climate Resilience, but Need Protection

Photo: Scientists sample eelgrass in the South Slough, in Charleston, Oregon, along the state’s south coast. This flowering marine plant…

6 months ago

Utah’s clawing way out of an extreme water deficit. Will it last?

Photo: Spenser Heaps, Deseret News Glen Canyon Dam holds back Lake Powell in Page, Ariz., on Monday, July 18, 2022.…

7 months ago

Pope Francis: ‘Irresponsible’ Western Lifestyles Push the World to ‘the Breaking Point’ on Climate

The 86-year-old leader of the 1.3 billion-member Catholic Church bluntly urges more aggressive action to curb emissions at the next…

7 months ago

Wildfires, Flooding, Heat: How Climate Change Upended Summer – The New York Times

Why Summers May Never Be the Same The globe’s warmest months on record redefined summer for many Americans. It felt…

7 months ago

‘Watershed moment’: California enters climate litigation fray

California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) fields questions during an Aug. 28 news conference in Los Angeles. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP…

7 months ago

What Your Insurer Is Trying to Tell You About Climate Change

Illustration by Jared Bartman / The Atlantic. Sources: Getty; Rawpixel. Insurers are trying to send a message. The government is…

8 months ago

Native nations and UC scientists join together in the climate fight

$7 million grant advances Indigenous and academic partnership Indigenous land-management strategies have been largely missing from modern attempts to combat…

8 months ago