The planet is currently emitting 9 gigatons of carbon each year. With experts warning that the global climate crisis is becoming more and more dire, scientists and environmental activists say they are ...
What actually makes people take action against climate change? A new international study just got closer to the answer.
At most places Melissa Valliant goes when dining out, she carries in her backpack a set of reusable flatware — prepared to refuse the disposable utensils she says are part of the plastic pollution ...
The compounding effects of climate change are changing the ways schools operate, as they cancel classes on days with extreme heat or when wildfire smoke is clouding the air and contend with students’ ...
Ty Ferguson receives funding from the Medical Research Future Fund and the National Health and Medical Research Council Carol Maher receives funding from the Medical Research Future Fund, the National ...
International collaboration on climate change is fraying. The Trump administration withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement, the 2015 treaty aiming to limit global warming, and has ...
Many native plants in the U.S. cannot possibly move themselves fast enough to avoid climate-change driven extinction. If these native plants are going to have any chance of surviving into the future, ...
Beavers, those iron-toothed rodents with a talent for hydraulic engineering, can legally return to English river catchments after an absence of 500 years. Castor fiber has been on the way back for the ...
Climate change shapes where and how we live. That's why NPR is dedicating a week to stories about solutions for building and living on a hotter planet. After floodwaters destroyed Steve Papola's home ...
To the editor: Kudos to the Los Angeles Times for printing this column about a fair and balanced assessment of climate change, its effects and what we can do about it. This type of discussion is ...
Imagine the impact of climate change is irreversible, and decades of flooding, famine, pandemics and war have upended life on earth. That world is explored in Ian McEwan's new novel, “What We Can Know ...
The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending. Is it? Reading time 8 minutes If a 60-mile-wide (100-kilometer-wide) ...