GOTHIC, Colo. — As world leaders gathered across the globe this month to discuss a climate crisis that is rapidly heating the Earth, Billy Barr, 71, paused outside his mountainside cabin to measure sn

Series: Sacrifice Zones: Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution Polluters are turning neighborhoods into “sacrifice zones” where residents breathe in carcinogens. The EPA allows it. We mapped

Published 25 October 2021 comments Share page About sharing Related Topics Our Planet Now Image source, Getty Images Image caption, The fund was meant to help developing countries tackle and adapt to

After a months-long period of relative atmospheric balance between El Niño and La Niña, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that La Niña has returned. It’s expected

Published 14 September 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Climate change Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Over half of those surveyed said they thought humanity was doomed and that

Published 31 August 2021 Share page About sharing Media caption, Watch: 'They're on the road feeling scared and nervous' Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from the shores of Lake Tahoe i

Published 12 August 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Europe heatwaves Image source, Reuters Image caption, The Mediterranean heatwave has led to the spread of wildfires across southern Ita

Last summer the temperature in London, where I live, climbed above 37 degrees Celsius —or 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It was hotter outside my body than it was inside it. To someone raised under the sodde

Published 25 July 2021 Share page About sharing Media caption, Flash flooding after heavy rain sweeps across London Heavy downpours and thunderstorms have caused severe flash flooding in parts of Lond

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Like in ‘Postapocalyptic Movies’: Heat Wave Killed Marine Wildlife en Masse An early estimate points to a huge die-off along the Pacific Coast, and scientists say rivers farther inland are warming to

Published 8 July 2021 comments Share page About sharing Related Topics Europe heatwaves Image source, Reuters By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent The searing heat that scorched western Canada an

The Portland Streetcar is 20 years old, making it relatively sprightly for infrastructure in the United States. Yet it was built for a different geological epoch. On Sunday, while Portland suffered th

Source: ECMWF/Copernicus via KNMI Climate Explorer · Shaded areas represent places where maximum temperatures in the last week ranked compared with annual maximum temperatures from 1979 to 2020. Heat

Answers to questions about the current situation in California and the Western half of the United States. Houseboats on the shrinking Lake Oroville reservoir in California last month. Many have now be

As the coronavirus pandemic took hold last spring and people around the world went into lockdown, a certain type of news story started to spring up—the idea that, in the absence of people, nature was

Published 27 May 2021 comments Share page About sharing Related Topics Our Planet Now Image source, Reuters By David Shukman Science editor It's becoming more likely that a key global temperature limi

The United States is getting redder. No, not that kind of red. (We’ll leave that to the political pundits.) We’re talking about the thermometer kind. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administratio

California water officials have moved to stop Nestlé from siphoning millions of gallons of water out of California’s San Bernardino forest, which it bottles and sells as Arrowhead brand water, as drou

I hope we can all agree that “vaccine culture” is a bit depressing. The idea of wearing an evening gown to a COVID-19-vaccine appointment is objectively sad, and speaking from personal experience, tak

Published 29 April 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Climate change Image source, Reuters Germany's climate change laws are insufficient and violate fundamental freedoms by putting the burd

Extreme drought across the Western U.S. has become as reliable as a summer afternoon thunderstorm in Florida. And news headlines about drought in the West can seem a bit like a broken record, with som

"In a way we are unprepared for how much worse things will be with climate change." Cruel Fate Scientists recently abandoned a climate research outpost in Cape Cod Massachusetts — because climate chan

Published 13 April 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Fukushima nuclear disaster Media caption, Fukushima 10 years on: How the 'triple disaster' unfolded Japan has approved a plan to release

Should We Block the Sun? Scientists Say the Time Has Come to Study It. The National Academies said the United States must study technologies that would artificially cool the planet by reflecting away

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to an Ancient Geomagnetic Disruption A shift in Earth’s poles 42,000 years ago may have drastically altered the planet’s climate, scientists have found — and they’re naming the pe

Texas’ power grid was “seconds and minutes” away from a catastrophic failure that could have left Texans in the dark for months, officials with the entity that operates the grid said Thursday. As mill

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Peter Kalmus, out of his mind, stumbled back toward the car.

Published 15 February 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Climate change Media caption, Speaking via a big screen link at the Natural History Museum, Bill Gates said achieving net zero would

transcript 0:00/57:40 -57:40 transcript Should We Dim the Sun? Will We Even Have a Choice? Elizabeth Kolbert and Ezra Klein discuss what options remain if our political system can’t handle the climate

Got Climate Anxiety? These People Are Doing Something About It Distress over global warming is increasing, but formal and informal support networks are springing up, too. Credit... Hoi Chan By Feb. 4,

New U.S. Strategy Would Quickly Free Billions in Climate Funds Emergency management officials aim to funnel up to $10 billion into preventing climate disasters. The plan “would dwarf all previous gran

In his book, " The Great Influenza ," John Barry writes that the 1918 flu pandemic was the first time that "modern humanity . . would confront nature in its fullest rage." However, 2020 has shown us t

They are what scientists call charismatic megaflora, and there are few trees anywhere more charismatic than the three most famous species in California. People travel from around the world simply to w

This film from GOES-16 satellite images covers 10 days, Sept. 7-16, 2020 — a period of intense fire activity in North and South America. Clouds seen here at night would not be visible to the naked eye

It was only November, but the chill already cut to the bone in the small village of Dimitrovo, which sits just 35 miles north of the Chinese border in a remote part of eastern Russia’s Jewish Autonomo

Greenland is the largest island in the world and on it rests the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere. If all that ice melted, the sea would rise by more than 7 metres . But that's not going to

How Parents Can Tame the Stress of Climate Crises When pandemic parenting is topped off by wildfires, hurricanes and other extreme events, some stress-relieving measures are particularly suited to get