Climate

“We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.”― R. Buckminster Fuller The embrace of fossil fuels puts America on the road to economic perdition…

The popular science communicator Hank Green published a YouTube video titled “A Masterclass in Manipulation,” responding to a Reason video I made about misleading climate charts. His video is better-than-average…

A major ocean current system that helps regulate climate across the Northern Hemisphere is likely to weaken far more severely by the end of this century than scientists previously estimated,…

Forest destruction in the tropics eased by over a third in 2025, thanks in large part to Brazil’s stronger environmental protection which drove forest loss not caused by fires to…

The main findings of Israel’s 2024 national Mediterranean monitoring report point to troubling trends: warming seawater, rising sea levels, the spread of invasive species alongside the disappearance of native ones,…

Among the survival crises faced by humanity on Earth, climate change is the most alarming and catastrophic. Today, it is widely understood that global warming is the primary cause of…

In the summer of 2022, a heat wave in Europe drove temperatures to a record-breaking 115 degrees in Spain, scorching its olive-growing regions. In the U.K., chickens wilted in the…

As heat, floods and drought intensify, governments, donors and cities rely on climate risk assessments to decide who gets support and where money goes. A climate risk assessment uses information…

MARK PATTON, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR  Recently, Microsoft paused their carbon credit purchases. This is significant, because Microsoft has been the largest purchaser of carbon credits, with reports as high as 90% of…

College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China Yang Ou & Yong Liu Institute for Carbon Neutrality, Peking University, Beijing, China Yang Ou Center for Environment-Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking…

Climatologists warn: 2026 could be among the hottest years on record. As reported by Euronews, the ongoing global warming and potential intensification of climate processes are cited as reasons. The…

The call came at the end of a three-day meeting of the highest ambition coalition pushing for an equitable global fossil fuel phase out in the coal port city…

Can, or should, mental health join the climate crisis conversation?  Polluted air, lack of food or nutrients and rising temperatures are all signs of climate change that can result in…

Some experts argue this perception reflects a deeper issue: the impact of heat on health in India is often unseen and unrecorded, and therefore unacknowledged. Suraj’s death in February, before…

Spring in the southeastern U.S. is usually marked by heavy rain, thunderstorms, and high humidity, but this year firefighters in Florida and Georgia are battling starkly different conditions. Widespread drought…

On April 21, Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, the chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy, an environmental advocacy organization, visited Wake Forest to present her talk: “Adapt, Mitigate, or Suffer: Connecting Global…

Lily Radziemski PARIS (CN) — On Thursday and Friday, G7 environmental ministers gathered in Paris to address everything but climate change in a bid to keep the U.S. from backing…

Under continued global warming, over one-third of animal habitats on land could face climate-driven extreme events, such as heatwaves or forest fires, by 2085, according to a new study. ……

In November 2025, a group of countries — including Australia — signed the Belém Declaration on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels at the COP30 climate summit. Here’s what…

The mosquito species Culiseta annulata has finally managed to colonize Iceland. This is changing the rules of the game for its ecosystem and warning of the accelerated reach of climate…

Kiara Worth UNFCCC/flickr We’re passing the mic this week to Alison Wines of the Climate Communications Alliance, who marked Earth Day with a provocative question: More than five decades after…

Something strange has been swirling in the waters around Antarctica. From the 1970s until a decade ago, the floating sea ice that radiates from the continent had been expanding, even…

British scientists are testing whether firing salt water into clouds could help cool the Earth, as part of a £6 million project to tackle global warming. Hugh Coe’s team is…

Just across the road from the site of the first international conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels, in Colombia, oil tankers routinely unload at the Pozos Colorados terminal, with…

Rising temperatures in a Southcentral Alaska river are driving a noticeable change in the behavior of invasive northern pike. As the water warms, these predators are eating more, raising concerns…

Not much good comes from war.  Qualifying exceptions, however, can be found. The United Nations, tarnished, libelled and mocked for being simultaneously ineffectual and intrusive, was the mediating entity for…

Wildfires raging this week in southern Georgia and northern Florida were fueled by a combination of hot and windy conditions, severe drought and dried-out vegetation from past hurricanes all feeding…

The ocean has been keeping a secret. For decades, ships and sensors have detected methane rising from sunlit surface waters, where oxygen should make such emissions impossible. The gas is…

Paris – Environment ministers from G7 nations said progress was made at a two-day meeting in Paris despite climate change being left off the agenda to avoid friction with the…