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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

Trump's tweet about global warming.

The 2018 list of the worst in anti-science

By Jeremy Schulman | Climate Change, Opinion

Glassy ice floe with watchers on-shore

Some good news about the environment

By Zoya Teirstein | Climate Change

ice-covered red berry

Six memorable climate change pieces from 2018

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Climate Change, Special Topics