The United States is getting redder. No, not that kind of red. (We’ll leave that to the political pundits.) We’re talking about the thermometer kind. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administratio

California water officials have moved to stop Nestlé from siphoning millions of gallons of water out of California’s San Bernardino forest, which it bottles and sells as Arrowhead brand water, as drou

I hope we can all agree that “vaccine culture” is a bit depressing. The idea of wearing an evening gown to a COVID-19-vaccine appointment is objectively sad, and speaking from personal experience, tak

Published 29 April 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Climate change Image source, Reuters Germany's climate change laws are insufficient and violate fundamental freedoms by putting the burd

Extreme drought across the Western U.S. has become as reliable as a summer afternoon thunderstorm in Florida. And news headlines about drought in the West can seem a bit like a broken record, with som

"In a way we are unprepared for how much worse things will be with climate change." Cruel Fate Scientists recently abandoned a climate research outpost in Cape Cod Massachusetts — because climate chan

Published 13 April 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Fukushima nuclear disaster Media caption, Fukushima 10 years on: How the 'triple disaster' unfolded Japan has approved a plan to release

Should We Block the Sun? Scientists Say the Time Has Come to Study It. The National Academies said the United States must study technologies that would artificially cool the planet by reflecting away

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to an Ancient Geomagnetic Disruption A shift in Earth’s poles 42,000 years ago may have drastically altered the planet’s climate, scientists have found — and they’re naming the pe

Texas’ power grid was “seconds and minutes” away from a catastrophic failure that could have left Texans in the dark for months, officials with the entity that operates the grid said Thursday. As mill

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Peter Kalmus, out of his mind, stumbled back toward the car.

Published 15 February 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Climate change Media caption, Speaking via a big screen link at the Natural History Museum, Bill Gates said achieving net zero would

transcript 0:00/57:40 -57:40 transcript Should We Dim the Sun? Will We Even Have a Choice? Elizabeth Kolbert and Ezra Klein discuss what options remain if our political system can’t handle the climate

Got Climate Anxiety? These People Are Doing Something About It Distress over global warming is increasing, but formal and informal support networks are springing up, too. Credit... Hoi Chan By Feb. 4,

New U.S. Strategy Would Quickly Free Billions in Climate Funds Emergency management officials aim to funnel up to $10 billion into preventing climate disasters. The plan “would dwarf all previous gran

In his book, " The Great Influenza ," John Barry writes that the 1918 flu pandemic was the first time that "modern humanity . . would confront nature in its fullest rage." However, 2020 has shown us t

They are what scientists call charismatic megaflora, and there are few trees anywhere more charismatic than the three most famous species in California. People travel from around the world simply to w

This film from GOES-16 satellite images covers 10 days, Sept. 7-16, 2020 — a period of intense fire activity in North and South America. Clouds seen here at night would not be visible to the naked eye

It was only November, but the chill already cut to the bone in the small village of Dimitrovo, which sits just 35 miles north of the Chinese border in a remote part of eastern Russia’s Jewish Autonomo

Greenland is the largest island in the world and on it rests the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere. If all that ice melted, the sea would rise by more than 7 metres . But that's not going to

How Parents Can Tame the Stress of Climate Crises When pandemic parenting is topped off by wildfires, hurricanes and other extreme events, some stress-relieving measures are particularly suited to get

Limiting Indoor Capacity Can Reduce Coronavirus Infections, Study Shows Research using cellphone data in 10 U.S. cities last spring could help influence officials’ decisions on new restrictions as cas

Published 30 October 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, LUCY BARANOWSKI Image caption, A top inquiry says Australia needs to prepare for simultaneous natural disasters Australia must prepare

Imagery from David Opdyke’s This Land , gouache on postcards There is only one truly serious political problem facing all of us today, and that is climate change. Judging whether or not the human pros

Published 8 October 2020 Share page About sharing Media caption, The renowned broadcaster says the excesses of capitalism must be "curbed" to help nature. Sir David Attenborough says the excesses of w

An aerial view shows the damage in Saint-Martin-Vesubie, in southeastern France, after heavy rains and flooding hit the Alpes-Maritimes department, seen on October 3, 2020. # Valery Hache / AFP / Gett

Pack a ‘Go Bag’ Now The first step toward a solid evacuation plan is pulling together all the gear you need, before you need it. Credit... Christian Monterrosa for The New York Times By Published Sept

Published 25 September 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Firefighting resources have been stretched to the limit by the scale and extent of the wildfires By Matt

For most of us, climate change can feel like an amorphous threat — with the greatest dangers lingering ominously in the future and the solutions frustratingly out of reach. So perhaps focusing on toda

The federal government spends roughly $700 billion a year on the military. It spends perhaps $15 billion a year trying to understand and stop climate change . I thought about those numbers a lot last

August besieged California with a heat unseen in generations. A surge in air-conditioning broke the state’s electrical grid, leaving a population already ravaged by the coronavirus to work remotely by

Published 10 September 2020 comments Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Wildlife is under pressure from habitat loss, including deforestation By Helen Briggs BBC Enviro

Published 9 September 2020 Share page About sharing Media caption, Our chief environment correspondent Justin Rowlatt visited Thwaites in January By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent Scientists

Inequity at the boiling point A Quarter of Bangladesh Is Flooded. Millions Have Lost Everything. The country’s latest calamity illustrates a striking inequity of our time: The people least responsible

Today, 1% of the world is a barely livable hot zone. By 2070, that portion could go up to 19%. Billions of people call this land home. Where will they go? The Great Climate Migration By Abrahm Lustgar

It’s a response that has largely followed increased pressure from consumers, and in some cases, shareholders. Shuli Goodman, executive director of LF Energy said “consumer pressure has finally grown ‘

Climate Change Poses ‘Systemic Threat’ to the Economy, Big Investors Warn Financial regulators should act to avoid economic disaster, according to a letter from pension funds and other investors repre

A polar bear near the coast of Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands, Norway. Credit... Peter Barritt/Superstock, via Alamy Global Warming Is Driving Polar Bears Toward Extinction, Researchers Say By century’