Stories by Douglas Fischer

What was accomplished—or not—during two decades of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change summits

Whitebark pine, denizen of the high country around Yellowstone National Park, faces an invading pest as climate shifts

As Arctic ice—and access to seals living there—disappears, polar bears show they can adapt to a land-based diet of geese, eggs and the occasional caribou

Need to keep your edge in this summer of sweat and torpor? The Daily Climate's annual summer reading list can help

U.S. scientists say the evidence linking rising levels of greenhouse gases and global warming is as strong as the link between smoking and lung cancer

As the U.S. pivots toward burning natural gas for producing electricity, the air is getting cleaner

A Drexel University study finds that a large slice of donations to organizations that deny global warming are funneled through third-party pass-through organizations that conceal the original funder

A proposal to assign responsibility for historic emissions prompts a fight over the future of the IPCC and what role the past has in the quest to limit future emissions

Thousands of delegates are gathered in Warsaw for another round of climate talks. On the other side of the globe, indigenous leaders say they're done with the U.N. talks

Margaret Thatcher, who passed away on April 8, saw global warming as a threat

A soon-to-be-released Cato Institute report purports to be an "addendum" to a 2009 federal summary of climate change impacts but discounts the science in the original

A fungus that produces a carcinogen is flourishing in the continuing dry spell across the Midwest, and could pose problems for chickens, cows and pigs

With Asia's energy demands pulling more U.S. coal to West Coast ports, rail-line communities across Montana fear the effects: More train traffic, health problems, noise and congestion

NASA's chief climate scientist built his career studying Earth's atmosphere and modeling humans' potential impacts on climate. Then he realized that laboratory work wasn't enough.

Drought frequency is expected to triple in the next 100 years. The resulting variability and stress for farmers could prove regionally disabling without new policy

New research shows that the Yukon River delivers more than five tons of mercury per year to the Arctic environment, likely thanks to climate change

New findings show that variations in cloud cover cannot explain temperature changes as a result of global climate change

The Inspector General of the National Science Foundation has closed its investigation into climatologist Michael Mann after failing to find any evidence of misconduct

In making a case against CO₂ as a greenhouse gas, the Galileo Movement relies on irrelevant facts while omitting pertinent ones

Two Australian retirees invoke the "father of modern science" to argue against settled climate science but instead draw from a deep history of denial and distortion

A report concludes that each ton of CO2 emitted inflicts almost 45 times more "social cost" than the federal government estimates

The armadillo is moving north thanks to climate change, as are mice and other mammals

Vegetation change underway in boreal forests as a result of climate change creates a feedback loop that prompts more warming, scientists say

EPA list of cities with the most energy-efficient buildings shows dramatic growth