Anthropocene

Interest is building in using solar geoengineering to combat climate warming, but experts warn it could have broad—and inequitable—impacts

Plastic coverings, gravity snow guns and painted rocks could slow ice melt in high mountains

The pandemic fungus in the television program The Last of Us is real. But an expert says other fungi are much more threatening to humans

Temperatures in north-central Greenland are the highest in at least a millennium, contributing to ice melt that is raising global sea levels

A mile-long ice sample extracted by the U.S. military while it was studying whether to arm Greenland with nuclear missiles during the cold war is yielding insights into the Greenland ice sheet’s future in a warming world

The Biden administration launched a historic effort on Tuesday to commercialize direct air capture technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

In 2022 the world’s population hit the eight-billion mark. But such milestones could top out by the end of the century

Grants to Indigenous tribes in the U.S. totaling $75 million are the first from a new voluntary relocation program aimed at climate risks

The World Meteorological Organization warns that climate-related shortages in water resources could affect two thirds of the world’s population by midcentury and will be felt unevenly

As the COP27 climate summit begins, emissions reduction pledges are still far behind where they need to be to meet the goals to limit global warming

California is experiencing more wildfires, illness and drought as the impacts of climate change accelerate

Local governments in coastal states will lose billions of dollars in local tax revenue as rising seas claim developed land