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climate change

The world can support far more trees. Planting them can reduce carbon pollution a lot: An interview with professor Tom Crowther

By Matt Field | Climate Change

What if the Arctic melts, and we lose the great white shield? Interview with environmental policy expert Durwood Zaelke

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change

Climate change and the Titanic

By Peter Gleick | Climate Change, Opinion

Early adopters in confronting climate: cities

By Perry World House | Analysis, Climate Change

burning fire forest

Arctic fires: “You have to go to a different planet to find a more persistent type”

By Matt Simon | Analysis, Climate Change

melting sea ice

Human history, in ice. And it’s melting away.

By Miyo McGinn | Analysis, Climate Change

The environmental cost of your next adventure

By Heather Wuest | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

glacier ice falling into sea

You can’t call something an emergency and then approve the projects causing it

By Paola Rosa-Aquino | Climate Change

map of Europe heat wave 2019

Scientist: Temperature records haven’t just been broken—they have been obliterated

By Damian Carrington | Analysis, Climate Change

alien-looking exoplanet Kepler 22b

Did climate change destroy the aliens?

By Michael Byers, Kent A. Peacock | Analysis, Climate Change, Special Topics

cross made of grass

Faith, farmers, and climate action

By Brian J. Barth | Analysis, Climate Change

map of projected flooded land in Miami

Activists: You can’t come to Miami without talking about climate change

By Nicole Javorsky | Analysis, Climate Change