A scorching marine heatwave from 2014 to 2016 devastated the Pacific coast, shaking ecosystems from plankton to whales and triggering mass die-offs, migrations, and fishery collapses. Researchers ...

Planet Earth is living on borrowed time, a new global report reveals. The world must stop burning fossil fuels now and take ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

With temperatures rising worldwide, scientists warn that staging the World Cup and other soccer tournaments in the Northern ...

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).

At the bottom of the world lies a region as magnificent as it is misunderstood: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Harsh, ...

A landmark report for the global agreement on wetlands paints a dire picture of the state of the world’s water bodies that ...

Expanding major sporting events like the World Cup and the NCAA’s March Madness will also expand the damage each does to our ...

While the White House takes a sledgehammer to critical climate policy, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights announced a ...