How we know global warming is real
Sonnblick Observatory opened and began recording the weather in 1886, a technological wonder that measured how wind, barometric pressure and temperatures changed at upper altitudes,...
Facing catastrophic climate change, they still can’t quit Big Oil
The varnished wooden cross stands amid a cluster of grave markers tilted at odd angles in the cemetery, because the ground beneath them is sinking....
Fires, floods and free parking: California’s unending fight against climate change
When the fire came this time, blowing in fast and ashy from the dry hills around her camping resort, manager Terri Bowman was ready.
The climate chain reaction that threatens the heart of the Pacific
The salmon catch is collapsing off Japan’s northern coast, plummeting by about 70 percent in the past 15 years. The disappearance of the fish coincides with...
The ice used to protect them. Now their island is crumbling into the sea.
High on a bluff overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Adele Chiasson no longer ventures into her backyard for a simple reason: It is falling...
Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoors
It was 116 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade outside the new Al Janoub soccer stadium, and the air felt to air-conditioning expert Saud Ghani as...
Radical warming in Siberia leaves millions on unstable ground
As permafrost collapses and farm land is devastated, people turn to mammoth-tusk hunting and migration....
Dangerous new hot zones are spreading around the world
The day the yellow clams turned black is seared in Ramón Agüero’s memory.