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Covering Climate Now

How the Koch brothers got us here

By Ben Jervey | Analysis, Climate Change

Jump-starting the fight against climate change: The courts

By Alice C. Hill | Climate Change

Special report: Tilting toward windmills

By | Climate Change, Multimedia

A modest proposal: Nationalize Greyhound

By Joel M. Batterman | Climate Change, Opinion

The condensation trails (contrails) of an Airbus A340 jet over London. Credit: Adrian Pingstone

Just how bad is my air travel for the climate? And what should I do?

By Navin Ramankutty, Elena Bennett, Lior Silberman | Climate Change, Opinion

Fargo Beach on Chicago's North Side is no longer. The city's park district closed the beach after near record Lake Michigan water levels submerged most of the sand. Credit: Matt Field.

Researchers think they know what’s causing record water levels on and flooding around the Great Lakes: climate change

By Matt Field | Climate Change

Protecting the environment in times of war

By Peter Gleick | Climate Change

Greta Thunberg, 15. Photograph: Hanna Franzen/EPA

Greta Thunberg is a painful reminder of decades of climate failures

By Dana Nuccitelli | Climate Change

Meet the climate whistleblowers muzzled by the White House

By Oliver Milman | Climate Change

Special report: Tilting toward windmills

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Investigative Reporting

Why we should care about the upcoming UN Climate Action Summit

By Mark Hertsgaard | Analysis

Climate reporting’s new start

By Mark Hertsgaard, Kyle Pope | Analysis