Climate Change

Pope Francis’s new encyclical says irresponsible lifestyles are the biggest impediment to reducing carbon emissions

Sea ice is changing fast. Are forecasts created by artificial intelligence the best way to keep up with the pace of a warming climate in the far north?

First-of-its-kind FEMA funding aims to update archaic building codes that leave millions of people exposed to climate-fueled hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather

Students could be taught for the next decade that humans are only partly responsible for climate change

A hydrogeologist explains the shifting balance between fresh and salt water at the coast as sea levels rise

Raging floods, intensifying drought and rising seas could affect saltwater intrusion

Supreme Court justices declined to decide whether the Biden administration is placing too high a value on the cost to society of spewing carbon and other planet-warming gases

A needlelike tower, hung with sensors, “sniffs” the air above the Arctic Circle for signs of catastrophic thaw in the sodden ground below.

A heat dome that baked parts of South America in late September was made much more likely and at least 1.4 degrees Celsius (2.5 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter by climate change

In a tiny village north of the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories, the Inuvialuit of Tuktoyaktuk have taken climate science into their own hands. 

The Philippines, India and China have seen the greatest total number of children displaced by disasters—some 23 million—in recent years

What is a permafrost thaw slump? Just imagine a massive hole with an area the size of more than nine football fields—and growing—where ice-cold ground once stood.