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Capitol steps

The first climate candidate of the 2020 presidential race

By Rebecca Leber | Climate Change

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The Green New Deal: One climate scientist’s view, from the other side of the Atlantic

By Myles Allen | Climate Change, Opinion

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, starring in the 1997 movie Titanic.

What we can learn about climate change from the Titanic

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Columnists

Credit: Matt Field. Based in part on images by Evan Swigart, FeastingMadeEasy / Lili, and NickSS from London (all CC BY 2.0).

Overweight and underwater: obesity and climate change

By Matt Field | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

thermometer in desert sand

US has a (natural) gas problem

By | Climate Change

aerial trees after ice storm

Extremes of weather: One of the greatest symptoms of climate change

By Dan Spinelli | Analysis, Climate Change

Two cartoons of Donald Trump, one showing him in the snow saying "whatever happened to global warming?," and one of him at night saying "whatever happened to the sun?"

Forecast: flurries of shivering climate-change deniers

By John Cook | Climate Change, Columnists

eye of hurricane from space

Less-prepared for more extreme weather, due to shutdown

By Dan Spinelli | Analysis, Climate Change

Hollywood sign submerged in sand

When it rains, it acid-rains

By Dan Drollette Jr | Opinion, What We’re Reading

tree branch silhouette and human brain

Who recently changed their minds on climate change, and why

By Kate Yoder | Analysis, Climate Change

Melting ice, BW

With climate change comes loss and “ecological grief”

By Michaela Cavanagh | Personal Essay

The equivalent of one atomic bomb per second: How fast the oceans are warming

By Damian Carrington | Analysis