It’s understandable that many discussions about the climate crisis focus on existential threats. Claims about human extinction combine the terrifying prospect of mass death with the terrible prospect ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Climate change should be seen as a shared challenge to solve together, not a political debate, write Katharine Hayhoe and Dana R. Fisher.

I’ll be the first to say I hope my headline is wrong. But let’s explore the facts and then do a thought experiment. As California grapples with yet another round of devastating wildfires, the Golden ...

1. Climate science basics -- What is the greenhouse effect and how does it warm the Earth? -- Why are scientists so certain the climate system is warming? -- How does global warming increase sea ...

An extraordinary jump in ocean temperatures in 2023 and 2024 was at the extreme end of expectations from global warming and would have been "practically impossible" without climate change, new ...

All animals live in or seek a set of climate conditions they find tolerable. This "climate envelope" partially determines where animals are found, but the continued existence of many species now rests ...

“This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” New research spotlights the challenge of growing food on a warming planet. Two recent studies — one ...

The study by a business researcher looked into climate-related disclosures in thousands of U.S. mandatory financial filings, and the study points out that, curiously, so far “little is known about why ...