Experts and international agencies issued a fresh warning on Tuesday as the anticipated return of the natural El Niño ...

Since the Industrial Revolution—an event made possible by the use of fossil fuels in everything from power plants to transportation—Earth has gotten hotter. 2024 was the hottest year on record and the ...

Many of the counties most at risk for climate disaster are worried the least about it. While climate worry correlates somewhat with climate disaster risk, there are broad swaths of at-risk counties ...

Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, weather monitoring agencies announced Friday. It's the first time in ...

Every month so far has seen floods, fires, smashed heat records or some combination of extreme weather. Little time remains for leaders to agree on what to do about it. Every month so far has seen ...

Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, attributing the series of disasters that paralysed Uttarakhand to global warming, assured that expert agencies would be employed by the state government to examine ...

It is clear as glass that our adaptable democracy is one of humanity’s successes but, when broken, glass shatters into countless pieces. We are close to shattering our environment. Democracy will fall ...

Energy — where we get it, how we use it and what it costs — is fundamental to the quality and stability of modern life. It influences virtually everything we do and affects everything we hope to have ...

Twenty-five years ago this month, Dan Sarewitz and I published a widely read and discussed article in The Atlantic Monthly titled, Breaking the Global Warming Gridlock (unpaywalled version here).