Science
Advances in knowledge about climate change and the effects of warming on our world and way of life.
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
Laura Rapidly Intensified Over a Super-Warm Gulf. Only the Storm Surge Faltered
By Bob Berwyn, James Bruggers
The Fires May be in California, but the Smoke, and its Health Effects, Travel Across the Country
By Evelyn Nieves, Michael Kodas
Paying for Extreme Weather: Wildfire, Hurricanes, Floods and Droughts Quadrupled in Cost Since 1980
By Bob Berwyn
California and Colorado Fires May Be Part of a Climate-Driven Global Transformation of Wildfires
By Michael Kodas
‘Is This Real Life?’ A Wall of Fire Robs a Russian River Town of its Nonchalance
By Evelyn Nieves
New York's Heat-Vulnerable Neighborhoods Need to Go Green to Cool Off
By Ilana Cohen
China’s Summer of Floods is a Preview of Climate Disasters to Come
By Lili Pike
