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A woman buying plant-based items in a supermarket. Image credits: Helena Lopes/Pexels You may not believe it, but food production generates more greenhouse gases than every car, truck, ship, and…

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Winter safety in periods of extreme cold starts with planning and preparation. Photo by Bethany O’Hagan

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Feb. 7, 2026, 2:29 p.m. ET When Punxsutawney Phil popped up and saw his shadow on Feb. 2, a collective groan rippled across the Eastern United States, where freezing temperatures,…

The current architecture of global climate governance increasingly resembles a pair of ‘hop-on, hop-off’ buses. One has the CMP (the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the…

The winter storm dumped nearly a foot of snow on Pittsburgh this weekend — just shy of the record set by the so-called “Snowmageddon” storm in 2010 — and temperatures…

As the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics approach, concerns about climate change are affecting winter sports. Unseasonably warm weather has prompted ski officials to create artificial snow for competitions. This is a…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As the Winter Olympics returns to western Europe for the…

Climate Change and You is a fortnightly newsletter written by Bibek Bhattacharya and Sayantan Bera. Subscribe to the newsletter to get it directly in your inbox. There was much excitement…

EPA’s repeal of a monumental scientific finding on global warming in the coming days could close the door on a decade and a half of U.S. climate policy. The so-called…

Global warming vs climate change is more than a wording debate—it shapes how people understand what’s happening to the planet right now. Global warming focuses on the steady rise in…

Imagine trying to fix two very different leaks in the same house. One drip never really stops. The other gushes hard for a short time, then fades away. That mirrors…

This is part of an extensive interview conducted days after Veerabhadran Ramanathan, 81, won the Crafoord Prize (in Geosciences), often considered a precursor to the Nobel. (AFP) It was Ramanathan…

As temperatures rise and weather extremes intensify, new evidence reveals how climate stress and weak health systems are accelerating antibiotic-resistant infections across the Western Pacific, and why coordinated climate, AMR…

Bloomberg columnist Mark Gongloff says this scary-looking chart is something “climate denialists can’t ignore” because it shows how much hotter the world has been getting since 1930. Adani Samat The…

Activism / February 5, 2026 Global warming means the future of Winter Games “is literally melting away.” Ad Policy Members of the International Olympic Committee speak during a press conference…

“This cold weather and extreme snowstorm are not an exception to global warming, but an alarming indicator of it,” the author writes. “New Yorkers feel this global weirding phenomenon and…

  Max Boykoff is a Professor in the Environmental Studies department at the University of Colorado Boulder, and is a Fellow in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences….

To predict future sea-level rise, scientists study how ice sheets responded to past warming during Quaternary interglacials. For the Middle Holocene, evidence of how far the Greenland Ice Sheet retreated…

The Trump administration violated federal law when it secretly formed a climate science advisory group to work on a contencious global warming report, a court has ruled. The Department of…

A firefighter battling a blaze in Chubut province in December. (Government of Chubut) More than 45,000 hectares—an area almost twice the size of the city of Buenos Aires—have already been…

At its core, climate change affects our economy through two risk channels. Physical risks – such as heatwaves, floods, droughts – can damage capital stock, reduce labour supply and productivity,…

Britain has been told to prepare for at least two degrees Celsius of global warming by 2050. Its independent Climate Change Committee says the country is not ready for extreme…

It seems impossible: Despite steadily warming winters, parts of the U.S. have seen an increase in extreme winter weather, reaching as far south as subtropical Louisiana. At first glance, the…

By Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University Scientists are trained to be professional skeptics: to always judge the validity of a claim or finding on the basis of objective, empirical evidence….

A new study published in Nature Geoscience shows that changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) closely followed shifts in marine algae growth in the Southern Ocean during past…

Named after a Southeast Side environmentalist who pioneered activism in the city’s industrial neighborhoods decades ago, the Hazel Johnson Cumulative Impacts Ordinance would counteract the industrial zoning that occurs in…

The president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, highlighted during the inauguration of the II edition of DiploInnova Canarias that the islands have all the necessary elements to become a…