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A faltering offsets program points to new problems with the corporate world’s favorite “climate solution.”
A faltering offsets program points to new problems with the corporate world’s favorite “climate solution.”
The rising weather-related risks from climate change, from coastal hurricanes to western wildfires, are increasing pinching insurance companies, which are raising rates and pulling back from parts …
New or improved flood protection can give a false sense of security – the so-called ‘levee effect’. But climate change is unpredictable, meaning ‘residual risk’ always exists and must be planned for.
China sees both extreme heat and devastating floods, including in areas where flooding was unheard of.
How extreme weather could unite the environmental and labor movements
Cambridge study says carbon offsets are not nearly as effective as they claim to be.
Vast numbers of emperor penguin chicks drown as sea-ice melts and collapses underneath them.
Coral reefs are home to a quarter of all life in the ocean and are vulnerable to marine heat waves that are now becoming a major threat to ocean life
As Europe and other regions swelter, a UN researcher cautioned that climate change was enabling increasingly intense and long-lasting heat waves, which in some areas could soon begin to hit year-round.
Climate change is already making a small proportion of tropical tree leaves so hot that their photosynthetic machinery bakes and breaks, according to new research.
The cork holding back the Atlantic Ocean's tropical storm activity popped off this week, with a record set for the most tropical storms to form so quickly.
California has set up a permanent task force of National Guard members to do what used to be occasional work fighting and preventing wildfires.
Will our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan heartland, and Viking Greenland?
A recent study highlights the health benefits of particular plants closing and generally reducing exposure to fossil fuels, researchers say.
Oil is made from magma?
Review of No Miracles Needed: how today’s technology can save our climate and clean our air, by Mark Jacobson.
The genus Takakia has the largest number of fast-evolving genes of any moss, a study finds. But it’s losing ground in the warming Himalayas.
Warming global temperatures are dangerous for people in many ways, but they’re proving ideal for one type of animal: venomous snakes.
America’s wealthiest people are also some of the world’s biggest polluters – not only because of their massive homes and private jets, but because of the fossil fuels generated by the companies they invest their money in.
The United States is pivoting away from fossil fuels and toward wind, solar and other renewable energy, even in areas dominated by the oil and gas industries.
Water expert Peter Gleick on the calamitous flooding and other extreme weather events occurring on a daily basis around the globe.
Extreme weather events and our warming planet are primed to strike commodities and the food supply like never before.
Water expert Peter Gleick on the calamitous flooding and other extreme weather events occurring on a daily basis around the globe.