Shifts in climate – both large and small – are at least partly responsible for the rise and fall of many ancient civilizations. Could today's climate change threaten our modern way of life? NASA satel...

A foreboding doom sense of climate chaos and societal breakdown is now widespread. Global Industrial Civilization is collapsing from overshoot and taking the biosphere we depend on for life down with ...

As climate change melts permafrost, microbes will emerge. The world isn’t paying enough attention to the potential threat they pose.

‘Tight correlation’ between premium rises and counties deemed most at risk from climate crisis, experts say

The UN has warned that humanity faces an 'existential crisis' which threatens to leave billions facing starvation as arid areas now cover 40 per cent of the Earth's land.

The True State of Our Planet and Energy Future

The world is in the grips of a dangerous heat wave that has sent temperatures skyrocketing to deadly levels throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas. Unless urgent action is taken to reduce carbon emi...

An MIT Energy Initiative study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring abo...

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Since early 2023, the world has seen a steep rise in temperatures that scientists are struggling to explain. Our contributor Elizabeth Kolbert talked with Gavin Schmidt, NASA’s top climate scientist, ...

The most diverse group of organisms on the planet are in trouble and the consequences could be dire.