Climate Change

United Airlines is partnering with NOAA as part of a wider federal strategy to better keep tabs on the country’s greenhouse gas emissions

Rising temperatures, increasing precipitation, thawing permafrost and melting ice are pushing the Arctic outside its historical norms

A new paper warns the concept of “tipping points” doesn’t do much to encourage climate action from laypeople and policymakers

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, is a major supporter of human-crewed space exploration, but his views on the climate science that the agency does are unclear

The Arctic is likely to become “ice-free” by midcentury—and could pass that grim milestone much sooner—unless much more is done to combat climate change

Drought is more synonymous with the western U.S., but the eastern part of the country can descend into such conditions surprisingly quickly

Federal climate databases remained largely intact during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term. Scientists say the threats are bigger this time

Every Atlantic hurricane that formed this year had higher wind speeds because of climate change. Two likely would have remained tropical storms without its influence

Trumps retreat from climate agreements and tech funding will help China dominate global clean energy markets

Forests absorb planet-warming pollution, but world leaders shouldn’t include them in plans to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, a new study recommends

Changing the ocean’s chemical and biological makeup could force it to pull vast amounts of planet-warming carbon from the atmosphere. But is that a line we want to cross?

A unique crystalline compound soaks up CO₂ with great efficiency