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climate change

Why the bad news in the IPCC report is good news for visual learners

By Thomas Gaulkin | Climate Change

1950s tobacco ad in magazine

Should we ban fossil fuel ads on TV and in movie theatres, like we do cigarettes?

By Seth Klein | Climate Change, Opinion

Scientists: We need a global methane agreement—now

By Fiona Harvey | Climate Change

Wildfire cloud and lightning

Smoke thunderclouds: Wildfires use the atmosphere to light more wildfires

By Matt Simon | Climate Change

Atomic Bomb Dome in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Credit: Michael Helmer. Public domain image accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

In an era of climate change and COVID, Hiroshima reminds us of another existential threat.

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

red coral fan underwater

Latest idea for saving the Great Barrier Reef? Dump crushed rocks on it

By Graham Readfearn | Climate Change

satellite view Aegean Sea

Sun glint—bane of climate modellers who use satellite images—may have silver lining

By Gemma Tarlach | Climate Change

dead tree sand dune

Climate scientist: “It’s already worse than what I imagined”

By Sofia Andrade | Climate Change

SMR research in lab

Can small modular reactors help mitigate climate change?

By Arjun Makhijani, M.V. Ramana | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Gila River in bloom

What happens when the nation’s most endangered river encounters megadrought?

By Jim Robbins | Climate Change

sun rising over power lines in California

Cut emissions, save 317,000 people: What a nationwide clean electricity standard could do

By Oliver Milman | Climate Change

Badwater Basin Death Valley

Extreme weather no guarantee of support for climate action

By Jennifer Marlon | Climate Change