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Spreading like wildfire: How Trump’s misinformation about water and fire in Los Angeles inflames the situation

By Peter Gleick | Climate Change

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‘Not enough firefighters’: Historic wildfires rage unabated in Southern California

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

Trump has a fighting chance to prevent Arctic meltdown. He should take it.

By Durwood J. Zaelke, Paul Bledsoe | Climate Change

glacier with and without efforts to rein in climate change

The best of the Bulletin’s bimonthly magazine, 2024

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Biosecurity, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

Sign reading "Caution Low Water Launch At Own Risk" at Great Salt Lake marina during a drought in front of naturally-colored grasses that look like fire.

How climate models could be underestimating drought

By Toby Ault | Climate Change

A person holds a large handful of e-waste up in front of their face above a large container of e-waste.

Murder, mayhem, and minerals: The price of the renewable energy revolution

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

Report: Widespread land degradation impacting an area greater than Antarctica threatens global climate

By Jonathan Watts | Climate Change

US farms are being battered by climate change. Trump wants to put a climate denier in charge of the USDA

By Georgina Gustin | Climate Change

tearing hair out at meal with climate change-denier

Advice for Thanksgiving 2024: How to deal with the climate change-denier at the table

By Richard C. J. Somerville | Climate Change, Opinion, Special Topics

wildfire aftermathNew Jersey

It’s November, and the Northeast is on fire

By Paige Vega | Climate Change

When Rome’s fountains run dry

By Gabriele Di Donfrancesco | Climate Change, Investigative Reporting

Welcome to the American petrostate

By Michael E. Mann | Climate Change, Opinion