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Warming Trends: Couples Disconnected in Their Climate Concerns Can Learn About Global Warming Over 200 Years or in 18 Holes

A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier.

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Judge Scales Back Climate Scientist’s Case Against Bloggers

By Marianne Lavelle

Can Arctic Animals Keep Up With Climate Change? Scientists are Trying to Find Out

By Haley Dunleavy

A Watershed Moment: How Boston’s Charles River Went From Polluted to Pristine

By Derrick Z. Jackson

Warming Trends: Increasing Heat is Dangerous for Pilgrims, Climate Warnings Painted on Seaweed and Many Plots a Global Forest Make

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Do Leaked Climate Reports Help or Hurt Public Understanding of Global Warming?

By Bob Berwyn

On California’s Coast, Black Abalone, Already Vulnerable to Climate Change, are Increasingly Threatened by Wildfire

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Climate-Driven Changes in Clouds are Likely to Amplify Global Warming

By Bob Berwyn

‘There Are No Winners Here’: Drought in the Klamath Basin Inflames a Decades-Old War Over Water and Fish

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Planes Sampling Air Above the Amazon Find the Rainforest is Releasing More Carbon Than it Stores

By Georgina Gustin

A Delta in Distress

By Liza Gross

Warming Trends: Stories of a Warming Sea, Spotless Dragonflies and Bad News for Shark Week

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A Week After the Pacific Northwest Heat Wave, Study Shows it Was ‘Almost Impossible’ Without Global Warming

By Bob Berwyn

Forests of the Living Dead

By Liza Gross

Ice Dam Bursts Threaten to Increase Sunny Day Floods as Hotter Temperatures Melt Glaciers

By Haley Dunleavy

Warming Trends: Global Warming Means Happier Rattlesnakes, What the Future Holds for Yellowstone and Fire Experts Plead for a Quieter Fourth

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Drier Springs Bring Hotter Summers in the Withering Southwest

By Judy Fahys

Warming Trends: Radio From a Future Free of Fossil Fuels, Vegetarianism Not Hot on Social Media and Overheated Umpires Make Bad Calls

By Katelyn Weisbrod

New Climate Research From a Year-Long Arctic Expedition Raises an Ozone Alarm in the High North

By Bob Berwyn