Climate Change

Stretches of the Mojave Desert, Central Basin and Range, and the Colorado Plateau—each immense ecoregions that help define the West—converge in this landscape, with many plants and wildlife at the edges of their ranges. Plants exist here that are found nowhere else on earth. BLM photo. (CC BY 2.0)

The Public Lands Rule: Can conservation leasing mitigate impacts from energy and mining?

By Dustin Mulvaney | Climate Change

Solar radiation management research isometric image

When looking is dangerous: How solar radiation management research can harm

By Aaron Tang | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies

This is a section of the cover of a 1972 Bulletin magazine issue that focused on the impact humans have on the environment.

Tomorrow’s fossils: Experimental embryology and endangered animal species in 1972

By Robert T. Francoeur | Climate Change

Patagonian paradise lost? The environmental hazards of farming fish in a warming world

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

people in boat in flooded streets

Dam explosion in Ukraine unleashes ‘ecological disaster’

By Nitish Pahwa | Climate Change

a ferry passes under bridge

Wildfires push air quality in East Coast cities almost off the charts

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

‘Uncharted territory’: Warming oceans and disappearing sea ice alarm scientists

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

Scientists identify over 5,000 new species at future deep-sea mining site

By Karen McVeigh | Climate Change

Toulouse-Castre road

French activists protest climate crisis with fire

By Damien Gayle | Climate Change

The high cost of extraction in the Lithium Triangle

By Tushar Khurana | Climate Change

satellite image of uinta basin

How the mirage of oil shale riches in Utah threatens the Colorado River

By Stephanie Mencimer | Climate Change

Sue Solomon in Antarctica with penguins

Interview with Susan Solomon: The healing of the ozone hole, and what else we can learn from atmospheric near-misses

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Interviews