Bill Gates gets climate change wrong. It’s not a binary—humanity survives or goes extinct—it’s a questions of scale: How many people will die or be left destitute? This story is part of Covering Climate Now , a global journalism collaboration ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.

What is currently being done to tackle climate change? The 2010s has been declared the warmest decade in recorded history, with 2023 marking the hottest year on record at 1.45 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial baseline.

Extreme heat can threaten human health, but it’s only one way climate change puts lives at risk. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and ...

For nearly four decades, scientists with a reputational and financial stake in the game and compliant, uninquisitive mainstream media have told the public one thing consistently about climate change: there is a consensus, there is no debate, human ...

On Nov. 28, there were two climate stories in the news that caught my eye. First, Jimmy Lovrien wrote in an article for the News Tribune that Duluth’s average winter temperature has increased by 6.1 degrees since 1970. Duluth is now ranked 16th among the ...

Click the downloadable graphic: What is attribution science? Humans have increased Earth’s temperature, mainly by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and methane gas. The resulting heat-trapping pollution has caused global average temperatures to rise ...