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national guard members carry bottle water after hurricane sandy

‘We’re not going fast enough’: Sherri Goodman on climate change as security threat

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

Once used as trash dumps, Sri Lanka’s wetlands are remade as flood-buffering parks

By Tristan Bove | Climate Change

Are cities ready for extreme heat?

By John Morales | Climate Change, Columnists

drivers and bikers make their way through flooded streets in Hanoi, Vietnam

Many coastal cities are sinking even faster than sea levels are rising

By Michael Allen | Climate Change

Food giants can help put alternative meats on everyone’s table

By Emma Ignaszewski | Climate Change, Opinion

a broken part of the seawall at Gun Rock Beach damaged in the Blizzard of 1978

Why cities should ditch seawalls and let the water in

By Kristina Hill | Climate Change, Opinion

Nature-based solutions could help nations mitigate and adapt to climate change—but only if they get more funding

By Fred Pearce | Climate Change

three cows on porch to avoid floodwaters

What rich countries gain by helping poor countries recover from climate disasters

By Taylor Dimsdale | Climate Change

army soliders with a helicopter in the background

US Army plan to combat climate change lacks the fighting spirit

By Neta C. Crawford | Analysis, Climate Change

ice-covered red berry

Six memorable climate change pieces from 2018

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Climate Change, Special Topics

biking through floodwaters

Move or spend a lot of money: The choices rising seas impose on coastal residents

By Emily Holden | Analysis, Climate Change

Adapting to climate change in California

By F. W. Davis, E. A. Chornesky | Climate Change