Science

Eleven Chemical Plants in China and One in the U.S. Emit a Climate Super-Pollutant Called Nitrous Oxide That’s 273 Times More Potent Than Carbon Dioxide

By Phil McKenna

Can Iceberg Surges in the Arctic Trigger Rapid Warming at the Other End of The World?

By Bob Berwyn

An Agricultural Drought In East Africa Was Caused by Climate Change, Scientists Find

By Georgina Gustin

As Extreme Fires Multiply, California Scientists Zero In on How Smoke Affects Pregnancy and Children

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Intensifying Cycle of Extreme Heat And Drought Grips Europe

By Bob Berwyn

Where There’s Plastic, There’s Fire. Indiana Blaze Highlights Concerns Over Expanding Plastic Recycling

By James Bruggers

Climate Change Wiped Out Thousands of the West’s Most Iconic Cactus. Can Planting More Help a Species that Takes a Century to Mature?

By Wyatt Myskow

More Than a Decade of Megadrought Brought a Summer of Megafires to Chile

Story and photos by James Whitlow Delano

Global Warming Could Drive Pulses of Ice Sheet Retreat Reaching 2,000 Feet Per Day

By Bob Berwyn

California Snowpack May Hold Record Amount of Water, With Significant Flooding Possible

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

A New Report Is Out on Hurricane Ian’s Destructive Path. The Numbers Are Horrific

By Amy Green

Potent Greenhouse Gases and Ozone Depleting Chemicals Called CFCs Are Back on the Rise Following an International Ban, a New Study Finds

By Phil McKenna

Promising to Prevent Floods at Treasure Island, Builders Downplay Risk of Sea Rise

By Kristi Coale, San Francisco Public Press

Pacific Walruses Fight to Survive in the Rapidly Warming Arctic

By Kiley Bense

‘Rewilding’ Parts of the Planet Could Have Big Climate Benefits

By Bob Berwyn

America’s Forests Are ‘Present and Vanishing at the Same Time’

By Kiley Bense

Climate Change Enables the Spread of a Dangerous Flesh-Eating Bacteria in US Coastal Waters, Study Says

By Jon Hurdle

Wildfires in Northern Forests Broke Carbon Emissions Records in 2021

By Emma Foehringer Merchant