Alexander E. Gates is affiliated with The Newark Green Team. Climate change can seem like an insurmountable challenge. However, if you look closely at its causes, you’ll realize that history is filled ...

As headlines about heat waves, floods and wildfires become more frequent, many people report a growing sense of worry about ...

Hot air evaporates a lot more water, so crops, forests and landscapes in some areas dry out, which makes them more susceptible to wildfire. Each Celsius degree of warming can cause a sixfold increase ...

The manager of the vast majority of Texas’ power grid, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), sent out multiple “voluntary conservation notice[s]” this summer. There were more than I can ...

The movement of people can also spread pathogens to new regions. Different countries need to co-ordinate a response as ...

Houses are falling into the ocean in North Carolina. A waterfront house in Rodanthe, N.C. — a coastal town located on Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks — collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean the morning ...

Teens have a shaky understanding of the causes of climate change and the strong scientific consensus around the fact that human activity is driving up global temperatures, according to a report. A ...

This story was produced by The Appeal and co-published with Grist. On June 19, Michael Broadway struggled to breathe inside his cell at Stateville Correctional Center, a dilapidated Illinois state ...

Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to ...

DURANGO, Colorado -- Assigning blame about climate change seems to be a national pastime. Most of us have blamed someone or something as the cause of our troubles. Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “The ...

The erratic patterns of heat and rain are triggering landslides in Pakistan, even on a very busy and attractive mountainous ...