The ozone hole was going to destroy life as we know it, but an unprecedented global effort fixed the problem.

A growing movement shows that protecting the world’s forests — and the people who have safeguarded them for centuries — is one of the most powerful, and overlooked, tools in the fight against climate change.

The idea that it’s “too late” to reduce emissions fuels cynicism and despair, putting us on an even worse trajectory.

“Climate analog mapping” finds the place that is currently as warm as your city might be in 60 years.

As the Sun ages, it loses mass, causing Earth to spiral outward in its orbit. Will that cool the Earth down, or will other effects win out?

New tests to detect species being traded, as well as population studies, aim to help save them.

A radical proposal reimagines Europe as a carbon-neutral continent where national boundaries are replaced by regions defined by renewable energy capabilities.

The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share.

Explore data on electric car sales and stocks worldwide.

Decades ago, a disaster left three million acres of land uninhabitable and killed between 85,600 and 240,000 people. Chernobyl? No. Banqiao dam in China.

Experiments on suborbital rockets are revealing how to make a better iron furnace.

Ocean fertilization is extremely controversial, but if done correctly, it just might work.

From up close, the cracking sound of a thunderclap dominates. From far away, it's more like a drawn-out rumble. Can science explain why?

When Cameroon's Lakes Monoun and Nyos exploded, they released clouds of carbon dioxide that suffocated everything in its wake.

Really simple interventions can greatly reduce indoor temperatures during the summer, particularly in places like the Pacific Northwest.

An out-of-this-world idea could help reduce some of the risk of solar geoengineering.

Here's what the weather phenomenon baking large parts of the country actually means.

Any alien civilization that grows to span an entire planet would spark the same effects that we have. So, what do we do about it?

The answer may lie in the particular way sand forms on Titan.

A floating platform the size of Rome collapsed off of Antarctica.

Germany finds itself once again allowing a murderous dictator to run rampant in Europe, though this time it is due to incompetence and technophobia rather than malice.

Driving Teslas and planting trees are nice, but methane reduction, industrial efficiency, carbon removal, and a moderate carbon tax are the most efficient ways to fight climate change.

Most “irrecoverable carbon” is concentrated in these tiny bits of the Earth’s land mass. Can we keep it there?

The scientists, not the fossil fuel industry, were right all along. Back in 1990, the world’s top climate scientists convened to put together a report on the state of Earth’s climate. […]

Sure, we’re warming now. But will this continue, or will natural factors change things? According to our best understanding of Earth’s climate, the global average temperature has increased significantly over the […]

She’s not a scientist, an expert, or even an adult. But she’s got one good lesson to teach us all. Like most people on Earth, Greta Thunberg is not a climate […]

Weather isn’t climate. The President isn’t a scientist. And physics is still real. The country is freezing in an unprecedented fashion, and global warming is to blame. Sound crazy? The cold […]

While it’s fresh in everyone’s mind, this is the best time to turn awareness into action. “Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing […]

Even if you have a problem with the messenger, you still need to heed the message. “Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left […]

What it means that 2016 is the hottest year on record. “There are now dozens of hockey sticks and the all come to the same basic conclusion. The recent warming does […]