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Is Amazon rainforest going from carbon sink to carbon source?

By Fred Pearce | Climate Change

dolphins swim at night, bioluminesce

The latest challenge to enforcing coronavirus rules at the beach: bioluminescent dolphins

By Mario Koran | Climate Change

miner in permafrost tunnel in Alaska

Scientists are racing to understand permafrost before it’s gone

By Madeline Ostrander | Climate Change

The Alaska National Guard has been used to fight extensive Alaskan wildfires. (Photo by Sherman Hogue/Fort Wainwright Public Affairs Office.)

Brian Brettschneider: How climate change has already arrived in the Arctic

By John Krzyzaniak | Climate Change, Interviews

A forest test plot, where snow was removed to see the effects of the lack of this insulating blanket. (Image courtesy of Pamela Templer.)

Shorter, warmer winters, less snow. What next? Q&A with biologist Pamela Templer    

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Interviews

How we know the Earth is warming and humans are responsible

By Dana Nuccitelli | Analysis, Climate Change

Hampton Roads. (Photo by Copernicus Sentinel-2, ESA.)

Sea level rise and beyond: Is the US military prepared for climate change?

By Joan VanDervort | Analysis, Climate Change

The climate change evidence right before our eyes. And a note on COVID-19

By John Mecklin | Climate Change

Hampton Roads. (Photo by Copernicus Sentinel-2, ESA.)

Sea level rise and beyond: Is the US military prepared for climate change?

By Joan VanDervort

How we know the Earth is warming and humans are responsible

By Dana Nuccitelli

A forest test plot, where snow was removed to see the effects of the lack of this insulating blanket. (Image courtesy of Pamela Templer.)

Shorter, warmer winters, less snow. What next? Q&A with biologist Pamela Templer

By Dan Drollette Jr

Demand for coal in largest decline since end of World War II

By Jillian Ambrose | Climate Change