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Global Warming
climate change
Sept. 27, 2023
By Tariro Mzezewa
Florida Is One Big Hot Tub Last week, water temperatures off the coast reached triple digits.
By Danielle Cohen
odor events
June 12, 2023
Meanwhile, in Texas, Fresh Signs of Impending Apocalypse In our latest environmental plague, tens of thousands of dead fish washed up along the Gulf Coast this weekend.
By Bindu Bansinath
apocalypse wow
May 9, 2023
New Jersey Is Burning Wildfire season is starting earlier and not just on the West Coast.
By James D. Walsh
the environment
Jan. 9, 2023
Great Job, Everybody, We Saved the Ozone Layer The ozone layer is on track to recover to its 1980 values around most of the world within a few decades.
By Chas Danner
life after warming
Jan. 1, 2022
The Return of the Urban Firestorm Climate scientist Daniel Swain explains that what happened Thursday in Colorado wasn’t a wildfire, but something potentially much scarier.
By David Wallace-Wells
life after warming
July 1, 2021
How to Live in a Climate ‘Permanent Emergency’ Death Valley temperatures in the Pacific Northwest and Canada show we’ve entered the era of climate adaption.
By David Wallace-Wells
climate change
May 27, 2021
Biden Admin Defends Massive Trump-Era Drilling Project in Alaska Despite pledges to cut emissions 50 percent by 2030, the administration filed a brief supporting an oil project that would produce for 30 years.
By Matt Stieb
life after warming
Aug. 14, 2020
What Climate Alarm Has Already Achieved Even as we “normalize” climate change, we’ve also normalized alarmism, with panic about warming suddenly at the very center of our politics.
By David Wallace-Wells
Trump’s Interior Dept. Reportedly Edited Documents to Say Climate Change Is Good An Interior official edited nine policy reports with debunked claims — fitting a larger administration pattern of undermining climate science.
By Matt Stieb
climate change
Feb. 7, 2020
Antarctica Is Hotter Than Ever The continent known for glaciers and penguins just logged its highest temperature on record.
By Amanda Arnold
fire-drill fridays
Nov. 8, 2019
By Rebecca Alter
it’s cold in here
Jan. 30, 2019
How to Help People in Need Affected by the Polar Vortex Windchill temperatures have hit an all-time low in parts of the Midwest.
By Ella Cerón
life after warming
Dec. 20, 2018
Parenting the Climate Change Generation Climate change isn’t a reason not to have kids. Kids are a reason to fight it.
By David Wallace-Wells
How Will the Supreme Court Handle the Case of Kids Suing for Climate Action? “The right to a climate system capable of sustaining human life is fundamental to a free society,” wrote a federal judge.
By Cristian Farias
global warming
Aug. 15, 2018
Could Climate Change Destroy the Bloody Mary? “The entire global food system is a nightmare on the horizon.”
By Clint Rainey
California’s Record-breaking Fire Isn’t the Week’s Worst Climate News A group of distinguished scientists warns that the threat of runaway warming may have been underestimated.
David Wallace-Wells
The Getty Hardens Its Defenses As the Skirball Fire Continues to Burn Museum officials are confident that the Getty Center is well-prepared for the wildfires sweeping through Southern California.
By Michael Slenske
climate change
Oct. 11, 2017
This Isn’t ‘the New Normal’ for Climate Change — That Will Be Worse The wildfires raging in California, the hurricanes that battered the United States: they are only the beginning of what is to come.
By David Wallace-Wells
The EPA Is Preparing to Repeal Obama’s Signature Climate-Change Rule The Clean Power Plan calls for a 32 percent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants by 2032.
By Adam K. Raymond
The Climate May Be Changing More Slowly Than We’d Thought New data suggests that if humanity gets its act together, we might still be able to cap warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius.
By Eric Levitz
Trump’s Policies Make It Harder for Cities to Recover From Disasters Like Harvey The White House has rolled back Obama-era rules aimed at managing flood risk, and supported budget cuts to key disaster-relief agencies.
By Samantha Lee
Climate-Change Study Leaked Over Fears That Trump Will Suppress It The extensive report, which concludes that human activity is driving climate change, is awaiting final approval by the administration.
By Margaret Hartmann
Scientist Michael Mann on ‘Low-Probability But Catastrophic’ Climate Scenarios An unedited Q&A with the prominent climatologist, who took issue with New York ’s latest cover story for being overly “doomist.”
By David Wallace-Wells
The Man Who Coined ‘Global Warming’ on the Worst-Case Scenario for Earth “We’re going to have to do something that we probably never dreamed we’d do.”
By David Wallace-Wells
climate change
July 9, 2017
When Will the Planet Be Too Hot for Humans? Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine. Plague, famine, heat no human can survive. This is not science fiction but what scientists, when they’re not being cautious, fear could be our future.
By David Wallace-Wells
global warming
May 27, 2017
Report: Trump Saying He Will Pull U.S. Out of Paris Climate Deal America’s exit from the agreement wouldn’t doom the 195-country pact, but it would increase the danger the world faces from global warming.
By Chas Danner
Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 : To Save the City, We May Have to Drown It Kim Stanley Robinson’s newest book imagines a New York where the sea level has risen 50 feet. And it still sounds like the best city in the world.
By Jake Swearingen
sundance 2017
Jan. 20, 2017
By Jada Yuan
trailer mix
Nov. 30, 2016
Watch the Powerful In This Climate Doc Trailer “How can you not notice all the things that are changing?”
By Tolly Wright
The North Pole Is Basically Hot Right Now A spike in Arctic temperatures and a record-low ice-sheet extent add to 2016’s climatic woes.
By Jen Kirby
pass on gas
Aug. 19, 2016
Unable to Reduce Meat Consumption, Scientists Now Resigned to Curbing Cow Farts Here’s to hoping “methane backpacks” can offset Americans’ obsession with red meat.
By Clint Rainey
Today’s New Sexist Thing: Glaciers New research shows even global warming privileges men.
By Jessica Roy
unlikely pairings
Jan. 28, 2016
By Jessica Roy
global warming
Dec. 13, 2015
Will the Paris Climate Accord Really Change the World? Some are celebrating the agreement as the end of the fossil-fuel era, while others worry it’s all just empty talk.
By Chas Danner
paris climate talks
Dec. 12, 2015
Nearly 200 Countries Reach Historic Climate Accord in Paris For the first time ever, most of the world’s governments have now committed to reducing their greenhouse-gas emissions.
By Chas Danner
talking about the weather
Nov. 6, 2015
By Elaine Godfrey
the future sucks
Nov. 3, 2015
By Jessica Roy
oh congress!
Feb. 26, 2015
Senator Refutes Climate Change by Throwing Snowball in Capitol “It’s a snowball, from outside here. So it’s very, very cold out.”
By Jaime Fuller
talking about the weather
Jan. 16, 2015
2014 Was the Hottest Year Ever Most of the human race experienced record-high temperatures.
By Jen Kirby
friends of the environment
July 16, 2014
By Adam K. Raymond
the national interest
June 8, 2014
Obama Promised to Do 4 Big Things As President. Now He’s Done Them All. It’s no longer possible to imagine that historians will look back at his presidency and conclude that not much got accomplished.
By Jonathan Chait
very scary things
Mar. 31, 2014
Climate Change Still Bad, Getting Worse A new report warns that its effects are are “severe, pervasive and irreversible.”
By Joe Coscarelli
talking about the weather
Mar. 6, 2013
Congress Needs to Stop Holding Climate-Change Hearings in the Winter It just makes right-wingers too happy when they’re canceled by snow.
By Dan Amira
scary things
July 3, 2012
By Noreen Malone
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