Cases of cannibalism among polar bears have always been rare, but they are increasing rapidly. It is...
Climate Change
Four of the warmest Januaries have occurred since 2016. This winter has been one of the warmest...
Earth’s biggest rivers are streams of warm water vapor in the atmosphere that can cause huge rain...
Two centuries after it was first sighted, Antarctica is a key site for studying the future of...
Energy-conscious retrofits can dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of housing without the need to start from scratch....
Trump is one of a handful of significant trans-generational genocidal maniacs whose policies will kill millions in...
Cutting carbon use depends on changing social norms and behaviour as much as technology. Citizen action on...
Major technological breakthroughs — such as CO2 air capture — will be necessary to slow global warming....
We have known about the causes of climate change for a long time. The girl got up...
Today’s headlines make climate change seem like a recent discovery. But people have been piecing it together...
As Venetians continue to leave their city, Venice risks becoming an empty shell. The lagoon city of...
Fabrications and cherry-picking are often used to dishonestly promote a denier agenda. By Livia Gershon Why on...
As the effects of climate change become clearer and more ominous, fossil fuel companies face a choice:...
Industrial development usually targets poor communities, but Ascension Parish is one of the richest, and most toxic,...
Air quality has improved for decades across the U.S., but Louisiana is backsliding. Our analysis found that...
Breaking up is never easy, but humanity is ready for this toxic relationship to end once and...
‘California is America fast-forward.’ The Golden State is on fire, which means that an idea of American...
Some view a retreat from democracy and the escalating effects of climate change as an unfortunate coincidence....
A team of researchers tried to gauge public perceptions of climate activists and faith in humanity’s ability...
Carbon dioxide makes up less than one-twentieth of 1% of Earth’s atmosphere. How does this relatively scarce...
We need innovative legal and policy solutions to tackle the problems caused by climate change. In a...
Poverty and violence are often cited as the reasons people emigrate from Central America, but factors such...
We have all the technologies needed to make the electric grid run on renewables and lower pollution....
To meet that temperature target, global greenhouse gas emissions will need to fall by 40% to 50%...
Some climate scientists have spoken out about the dangers of climate change. But a new study shows...
An exploration at what helps us thrive in the face of floods, droughts, fires and other disruptions...
Plants flower earlier, and insects – birds’ food – develop earlier. Viktoriia Radchuk, an evolutionary ecologist at Berlin’s Leibniz...
The consequences of the “reprobate’s” failure to change is not abstract at all; it’s happening now. By...
Two hundred years after New England’s first great hurricane, we ask very different questions about the nature...
While we’re losing biological diversity, we’re also losing linguistic and cultural diversity at the same time. This...