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global warming

Meteorologist John Morales: There’s rapid intensification, there’s extreme rapid intensification—and then there’s Hurricane Milton

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

dandelion mural on side of 12-story city building

“H is For Hope” sounded a bit better than “D is For Despair”: Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert about climate change

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change

aerial view of ice calving in Greenland

Figuring out the most realistic projections for sea-level rise: Interview with glaciologist Rob DeConto

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Special Topics

aftermath of 2008 Hurricane Ike

In a nod to resiliency, FEMA will take climate change into account when rebuilding

By Jake Bittle | Climate Change

smoke from Canadian wildfires shrouds Manhattan

Cost of climate change comparable to economic damage caused by fighting a war

By Oliver Milman | Climate Change

cows in Switzerland against mountains

Does ‘net zero’ mean zero cows?

By John Lynch, Raymond Pierrehumbert | Climate Change, Special Topics

polar bear plastics

The heat is on: Earth Day 2024 puts spotlight on plastics

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

Bill McKibben explains what individuals can do to win the climate fight. Together.

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

Climate change fueled a rise in rare disease outbreaks last year

By Zoya Teirstein | Biosecurity, Climate Change

sunset with silhouette of smoke from power station

‘Historic’ or ‘weak’? Parsing the climate agreement from COP28

By Damian Carrington | Climate Change

The stark choice facing climate conference: A livable climate or more oil and gas?

By David Spratt | Climate Change

Anasazi cliff ruins

Book excerpt—Catastrophic climate change: Lessons from the dinosaurs

By Michael E. Mann | Climate Change