Science
Advances in knowledge about climate change and the effects of warming on our world and way of life.
Smoke From Western Wildfires Darkens the Skies of the East Coast and Europe
By Ilana Cohen
Climate Scientists Take Their Closest Look Yet at the Warming Impact of Aviation Emissions
By Leto Sapunar
Inside Clean Energy: Google Ups the Ante With a 24/7 Carbon-Free Pledge. What Does That Mean?
By Dan Gearino
A Most ‘Sustainable’ Vineyard in a ‘Completely Unsustainable’ Year
By Evelyn Nieves
In a Dry State, Farmers Use Oil Wastewater to Irrigate Their Fields, but is it Safe?
By Abby Weiss
Text: Joe Biden on Climate Change, ‘a Global Crisis That Requires American Leadership’
Biden Puts Climate Change at Center of Presidential Campaign, Calling Trump a ‘Climate Arsonist’
By Marianne Lavelle
Changing Patterns of Ocean Salt Levels Give Scientists Clues to Extreme Weather on Land
By Bob Berwyn
Huge Western Fires in 1910 Changed US Wildfire Policy. Will Today’s Conflagrations Do the Same?
By Michael Kodas
As Wildfire Smoke Blots Out the Sun in Northern California, Many Ask: ‘Where Are the Birds?’
By Deborah Petersen
Senate 2020: Iowa Farms Feel the Effects of Climate Change. Will That Make it Harder for Joni Ernst?
By Georgina Gustin
A Siege of 80 Large, Uncontained Wildfires Sweeps the Hot, Dry West
By Michael Kodas
Video: As Covid-19 Hinders City Efforts to Protect Residents From the Heat, Community Groups Step In
By Anna Belle Peevey, Maddie Kornfeld
‘At the Forefront of Climate Change,’ Hoboken, New Jersey, Seeks Damages From ExxonMobil
By David Hasemyer
What Has Trump Done to Alaska? Not as Much as He Wanted To
By Sabrina Shankman
10 Days of Climate Extremes: From Record Heat to Wildfires to the One-Two Punch of Hurricane Laura
By Bob Berwyn