September 9, 2018
The past few summers have brought some of the hottest months on record. Unfortunately, things are only projected to get worse as climate change continues to push temperatures up around the world.
The global impacts of rising temperatures — including more hurricanes, sea...
September 6, 2018
Australia attempted to water down a resolution on climate change agreed by country representatives at the Pacific Islands Forum, a leader attending the event has claimed.
Pacific leaders issued the Boe declaration on Wednesday night, calling climate change “the single...
September 6, 2018
Thus far, the Trump administration has seemed to make it a point to ignore the very real threat of global warming in its policy and unabashedly censor climate science on government websites, reports, and speeches. It should come as a shock to no one, then, that the adm...
August 22, 2018
President Trump’s own Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conceded Tuesday that replacing President Obama’s climate plan for electric utilities with his new plan will be a public health disaster and cost the economy billions.
Obama’s original “Clean Power Plan” would...
July 23, 2018
The Youth Climate March began in a drizzle, with a forecast of steady, unrelenting rain on the way. The forecast didn’t disappoint, but the young activists who took the streets didn’t either.
Hundreds of young people from across the nation gathered on the national mall...
July 18, 2018
When people think about the impact of climate change, many consider the physical damage: homes destroyed, communities forced to start over, maybe even a number of bodies discovered after an intense weather event. But sometimes forgotten are the social consequences the...
July 17, 2018
Reports of climate science being scrubbed from U.S. government websites arrived early in President Donald Trump’s tenure. And the hits keep coming. From the Environmental Protection Agency, to the Energy Department, to the State Department and beyond, references to cli...
July 2, 2018
Scientists studying one of the fastest-warming regions of the global ocean say changes in this region are so sudden and vast that in effect, it will soon be another limb of the Atlantic Ocean, rather than a characteristically icy Arctic sea.
The northern Barents Sea, to...
June 29, 2018
Nestled beneath the imposing white peaks of two glaciers in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca, the aquamarine Lake Palcacocha is as calm as a millpond. But despite its placid appearance it has become a deadly threat to tens of thousands people living beneath it as a result of g...
June 28, 2018
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's announcement that he will soon step down from the Supreme Court sent shock waves through Washington on Wednesday.
Should President Trump and Senate Republicans succeed in replacing the swing-vote jurist with a stalwart conservative...