We’ve all read the stories and seen the images: The life-threatening heat waves. The wildfires of unprecedented ferocity. The record-breaking storms washing away entire neighborhoods. The melting ...

Researchers are proposing a new strategy for local governments to make municipalities more resilient against climate change.

Cities can adapt to climate change without starting over by pairing rebuilding decisions with cleaner, more resilient design.

"There are lots of reasons to care about climate change, and we are not powerless to stop it and all of these negative ...

What triggers “climate silence”? Researchers take a look. Editor at Large It’s axiomatic that you can’t solve a problem if you don’t admit it exists—and the best way to admit it exists is to talk ...

Telling people about the consensus among scientists can help, study finds, but researchers think that personal conversations are needed, too. Climate-communication researchers who spoke to Nature’s ...

Maria Temming: In 2021, a historic heat wave baked the Pacific Northwest killing hundreds of people and fueling wildfires. Researchers later reported that human-caused climate change made this heat ...

Deciding where to live has always been a high-stakes financial decision, but a changing climate makes it even more critical. Just ask any of the millions of Americans who have already experienced the ...

Prolonged droughts, wildfires and water shortages. Torrential downpours that overwhelm dams and cause catastrophic flooding. Around the globe, rising temperatures stoked by climate change are ...

This was almost 20 years ago, and of course a lot has changed. I think we have reached the point that McKibben hoped for, where we see climate change moving from scientific discourse to a broader ...

We’ve all read the stories and seen the images: The life-threatening heat waves. The wildfires of unprecedented ferocity. The record-breaking storms washing away entire neighborhoods. The melting ...