Climate Change

The 2010s will be remembered as the decade when we could no longer deny climate change. Here's some extra proof.

Alright folks, I'm calling it: 2019 was officially the year the climate crisis went mainstream. Think about it. No longer is mention of the warming atmosphere, melting ice sheets, and acidifying oceans — along with the resulting human suffering — limited to the "environment" section of the newspaper. It's not a niche worry for small pockets of concerned citizens.

There are signs Antarctica just experienced its highest melt extent ever recorded in the satellite era.

The science has never been bleaker, but progress is afoot.

The icon of the movement for action on climate change is a teenager. Shouldn't that worry us?

Louisiana still hasn't finished investigating 540 oil spills after Hurricane Katrina. The state is likely leaving millions of dollars in remediation fines on the table — money that environmental groups say they need as storms get stronger.

More carbon emissions come from lost electricity than the chemical industry.

Online shoppers are expected to send back way more purchases this holiday season compared to years past and those returns come with a heavy toll on the environment.

As a paleoclimatologist, I often find myself wondering why more people aren't listening to the warnings, the data, the messages.

This sacred river offers clues to the spread of one of the world's most daunting health problems: germs impervious to common medicines.

A flood could devastate the tourist zone of Waikīkī in Honolulu, but a federal plan to fortify the Ala Wai Canal has met with strong local resistance.

As polar and mountain regions have warmed, the extent of sea and land ice has declined.

The brutality of Fashion Nova's hyperaccelerated production model was always an open secret, but the fashion industry rewards willful avoidance.

Common polyurethane foam could change the way we clean up contaminated water from fracking and oil spills.

The muted response to Todd Haynes's "Dark Waters" is depressingly similar to our culture's muted response to climate change.

There is substantial but inconsistent evidence that as carbon-dioxide levels rise, they could affect human cognition.

The answer includes Benjamin Franklin, Mutiny on the Bounty and centuries of records.

Thieves stole roughly 80,000 gallons of water in a region of Australia that's suffering from one of the worst droughts in the history of the country.

Hundreds of ski resorts now stand abandoned across the Alps. But some scientists believe they have found a way to keep snow on the ground and that it could help vulnerable communities all over the world.

Climate change is already forcing people to move. Yang has a plan for getting them out of harm's way.

The low-lying country has centuries of experience managing water. Now climate change is threatening to flood it completely.

How a warming world is sparking calls for a greener web.

A shift to renewable energy powered by a carbon tax would create millions of new jobs, but the amount of money it would return to U.S. residents in rebates could vary considerably.

If high carbon emissions continue, babies born in the United States could lose a collective 250,000 days of gestation annually by the end of the century.

In a world of climate change refugees, dictatorships, revolutions and wars, a father reflects on the setting for his son's coming of age.

For nearly 30 years, America's four biggest rail companies — which move the majority of the country's coal — have spent millions to deny climate science and block climate policy.

Old ships' logs are giving scientists new insights into the past and future of the earth's changing climate.

The Arctic is a ticking time bomb that's close to going off.

Within the next 200 years, scientists believe all of the country's ice giants could disappear. Local geologists and activists hope to change that — starting with a plaque.

Inside the epic, decades-long battle to tame a lake so swollen it threatens to wipe out an entire city center.

The Brazil nut tree plays a critical role in the global climate and weather across South America. Deforestation is putting it all at risk.

When Republicans eventually stop denying climate change, they'll start doing something worse.

To the naked eye, there is nothing out of the ordinary at the DCP Pegasus gas processing plant in West Texas. But a highly specialized camera sees what the human eye cannot: a major release of methane, the main component of natural gas and a potent greenhouse gas.

An eccentric group of citizen-scientists called Old Weather has transcribed millions of observations from long-forgotten logbooks of ships, many from the great era of Arctic exploration. As the polar regions grow ever warmer, the volunteers have amassed a rich repository of climate data in a 21st century rescue mission.

Greta Thunberg has succeeded in turning vague anxieties about the planet into a worldwide movement calling for global change.

Over the past 10 years, disasters like superstorms and record-breaking wildfires have made global warming impossible to ignore.

The state's unusual decision exposes the insurance industry's miscalculation of the cost of climate change.

As psychiatrists and philosophers begin to define a pervasive mental health crisis triggered by climate change, they ask who is really sick: the individual or society?

The Western New York city possesses a distinct mix of weather, geography and infrastructure that could make it a potential climate haven. But for whom?

Relocating the human race to a more hospitable planet would mean that multiple generations would be born in-transit.

What the advice to replace beef with chicken in your diet is missing.

Hurricanes, fires, floods and a sudden decline in oil demand could all have serious consequences.

A conveyor belt of ocean water that loops the planet and regulates global temperatures is losing steam — and could be heading for a tipping point.

As climate change brings closer the possibility of an Arctic Ocean free of summer sea ice, scientists are urgently trying to understand the high north before it changes for good.

If the Earth's average temperature increases 2 degrees Celsius by the year 2100, humankind will see catastrophic changes. For millions of people, this extreme warming is already reality, in places like Qatar, Colorado and Angola.

Batteries were increasing carbon emissions (d'oh!), but new regulations and tech have fixed it.

Comprehensive plans are great, but small, low-budget changes can make a big difference, too

Johnson's communications director accused Channel 4 of staging a "provocative partisan stunt" and showing "a pattern of bias."

Where might the US be if it heeded her discovery of global warming's source?

These tipping points are now "active," scientists warn, and the rapid melting of polar ice and the loss of critical habitats could trigger an irreversible "global tipping point."

Back in 1992, 12-year-old Severn Suzuki attended the UN Earth Summit and spoke of the need to save our planet.

We've been moving in the wrong direction for years.

Humans have favoured red apples for generations, but rising temperatures could spell the end of a rosy red treat.

Students protesting climate change sat in the middle of the field during the Yale-Harvard football game in New Haven.

People are building houses in the path of future floods and fires, ignoring a huge amount of risk.

One of the country's largest utilities is a fiery mess. How can California fix it?

These are the policy changes we need to enact in transportation, electricity, buildings and industry to stop climate change.

Searching for a cure for my climate crisis grief.

Search and rescue teams train for the worst conditions. But the worst conditions are getting worse. Are they ready for the next big disaster?

The result: The state's biggest oil and gas companies have actually polluted more since it started.