
Deforestation Intensifies Warming in the Amazon Rain Forest
Slash-and-burn farming may actually harm local crops as a result of increased temperatures
Slash-and-burn farming may actually harm local crops as a result of increased temperatures
Six whistleblowers and ex-government scientists describe how the Trump administration made them bury climate science—and why they won’t stay quiet
Scientists setting sail to the North Pole will become stranded in slowly migrating sea ice to investigate climate change
In situations where lives are at stake, you need to be rigorously honest with yourself and with others—not take out your Sharpie to distort the truth
Children, pregnant people and the elderly are the most at risk from extreme weather and heat—but the impact is already felt across every specialty of medicine
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