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climate change

Project 2025: The right-wing conspiracy to torpedo global climate action

By Michael E. Mann | Climate Change

Desertification was supposed to be the ‘greatest environmental challenge of our time.’ Why are experts now worried about greening?

By Fred Pearce | Climate Change

Eastern Europe’s purchase of US nuclear reactors is primarily about military ties, not climate change

By Maha Siddiqui, M.V. Ramana | Nuclear Energy

With new data, researchers attempt to overturn long-held theory on ice ages and climate change

By Louise Kim | Climate Change

map showing water-related conflicts over thousands of years

4,000 years of conflict over water: a timeline

By Morgan Shimabuku | Analysis, Climate Change

mountain peaks projecting up above a surface of inland ice and snow in West Antarctica

How we know Antarctica is rapidly losing more ice

By Martin Siegert | Climate Change

Fisherman on the Conejos River in Colorado.

Peak water in an era of climate change

By Peter Gleick | Climate Change

Two scenarios for the melting of the Alps' largest glacier

The Alps’ iconic glaciers are melting, but there’s still time to save (most of) the biggest

By Matthias Huss | Climate Change, Special Topics

No debate: On existential threats, Biden, Trump, and CNN all largely failed

By John Mecklin, Thomas Gaulkin | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Special Topics

Is there any debate? This is the existential threat scorecard you need to rate the Biden and Trump matchup

By John Mecklin | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Special Topics

artist's rendering of proposed Morro Bay battery storage

$600 million battery storage project meets resistance in California

By Erin Rode | Climate Change

Can electrically conductive bricks replace fossil fuels?

By Phil McKenna | Climate Change