Climate Change

The 2015 Paris Agreement forged a path for the world to stave off the worst climate change scenarios. Here’s where we stand 10 years later

The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun

Ten years after the Paris climate agreement, the limited progress we’ve made in reducing global warming means that there will be less extreme heat in the future than there would be without the accord

The International Energy Agency says weak climate action and energy security fears are effectively delaying peak fossil fuel consumption

A nearly perfect alignment of factors has enabled Hurricane Melissa to become one of the most intense Atlantic storms ever recorded

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa’s exceptional strength and slow pace could make it more destructive than Hurricane Gilbert, which hit Jamaica in 1988

This is only the second time we’ve had more than two Category 5 storms in a single Atlantic hurricane season

Bird flu surges and a government shutdown collide, complicating efforts to track cases and protect flocks.

Australian “sleepy” lizards are not so sleepy when it comes to fire

The planet’s brightness is dimming—changing rainfall, circulation and temperature

Wood vaulting, a simple, low-tech approach to storing carbon, has the potential to remove 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year—and some companies are already trying it