This year’s fast moving, virtually irrepressible events are not the seasonal burns of decades past.

Tree rings and corals both put the biggest modern El Niños at or near the top of the past millennium, and this year’s event is on track to land well above them.

Planting cover crops or perennial plants can protect soil amid potential flooding. Congress must act to protect these practices

The new field of "smoke ecology" examines how wildfire smoke perturbs wild places and animals — and what might be done to prevent its worst mayhem.

Whether we’re aware of it or not, our brains are profoundly impacted by the environmental conditions around us. A new landmark report describes how climate change impacts our brains, who’s most at risk of harm, and what we can do about it.

It’s been a blistering year. A record-hot September doesn’t bode well for the rest of it

On January 7 2025, an ill wind began to blow down the mountain canyons north of Los Angeles. Upland forests and shrubs were already bone dry thanks to a

A new global biodiversity report strikes an encouraging note. But we cannot rest on our laurels – and resilience is key, says science writer Helen Pilcher

The real danger is steadily escalating planetary heat. The only way forward is to end billionaires.

‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed

However the U.S. Supreme Court rules, the work of holding oil companies accountable for climate change has a bright future.

So far this year has been ridiculously hot. If it stays that way, 2026 could set a sobering new record

Climate change will shape the future of Texas. Students should be allowed to learn about it.

Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution

Coverage falls a million square kilometres short of long-term average with global heating likely driving losses

The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification

The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification

I've gotten tough or resilient or case-hardened to the ugly things I read up on daily as part of my writing and civic life. Some of them, the amoral destructiveness of the tech industry and the Trump ...

A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.

Coverage levels fall a million square kilometres short of the long-term average, with global heating likely driving losses

New York event hears about the red Muppet’s fears during a recent storm as climate crisis increasingly affects children

El Niño will drive severe drought from Indonesia to the Southern Africa and northern South America, with wetter winters from the US Gulf Coast to Southern South America.

There’s still time to prepare.

New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.

Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister

Former US vice-president still has optimism for climate advocacy two decades after groundbreaking documentary

As the UN gathers, signatories from Bernie Sanders to Yeb Saño issue an open letter calling for clean power for all

New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis

Experts say some of António Guterres’s possible successors could be ‘disastrous’ for efforts to tackle crisis