President Joe Biden has pledged sweeping action on climate change but struggled to deliver it. A legal scholar explains…
They’re crucial for tracking deforestation, pinpointing dangerous heat, and helping people respond to fires, floods and…
Megalodon, the world’s largest known shark species, swam the oceans long before humans existed. Its teeth are all that’s…
Polar bears are increasingly seeking sustenance in human trash because of melting sea ice and a loss of hunting opportunities.…
The costs of three frequently touted solutions – tree planting, carbon capture and geoengineering – would be astronomical…
Summer sports camps and pre-season training often have kids running hard in high heat and humidity. The combination can…
Zebra and quagga mussels entered the Great Lakes in large ships’ ballast water. Now, local boaters and anglers are spreading…
Nutrient pollution fouls lakes and bays with algae, killing fish and threatening public health. Progress curbing it has…
Communities already retreat from flooding and in the face of sea level rise. Is retreat from wildfires next, and what would…
Artificial light is upending trees’ ability to use the natural day-night cycle as a signal of seasonal change.
A 1972 report warned that unchecked consumption could crater the world economy by 2100. Fifty years and much debate later,…
Plant breeding, informed by genetic analysis, could be critical to the future of one of the world’s oldest crops.
A review of S&P 500 companies finds carbon disclosure doesn’t necessarily mean emissions fall.
New research on young, healthy humans found the body begins overheating when exposed to temperatures and humidity lower…
Fires today are hotter and more destructive, thanks in part to a warming climate.
Yellowstone’s destructive flooding was a taste of the risks ahead in a warming world, and it’s just one example.
In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court held that an Obama administration plan to regulate carbon emissions from power plants…
Stemming the water crisis in the western US will require cities and rural areas to work together to make water use on farms…
Climate change has a clear link to rising foodborne illnesses. Blackouts during heat waves and wildfires are a growing part…
As crops fail in the rising heat, men are leaving many rural areas for migrant work in cities. Women are left to tend to…