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Science & Nature He’s seen insects move in, alders and willows spring up, and spawning fish arrive in thousands. LESLEY EVANS OGDENEcologist Sandy Milner...

A new index that rates 70,000 U.S. communities on their climate vulnerability finds that parts of the Gulf Coast subject to flooding and economic...

Science & Nature Getting hit with one hurricane is bad enough, but a U.S. National Science Foundation-supported study by Princeton University researchers shows that...

Deliberations over the wording in the United Nations IPCC report, which provides policymakers with regular scientific assessments on climate change, take time—and the entire project is a painstaking process. The science has to be correct, and the advised actions have to be attainable and fair to all, particularly for those who have been affected the

Enlarge / Is it natural, or is it us? (It's us.)Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images It starts as a reasonable question: If the Earth's climate changed before humans existed, how can we be so sure the current change is due to us and not something natural? To answer that question, we need to understand what caused the

Coffee is important to the economies of coffee producing regions. A study published in PLOS Climate by Doug Richardson at CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia and colleagues suggests that climate change may significantly affect land where coffee is cultivated. Coffee plants are sensitive to climate variability and change...

Although the business community has made progress toward climate goals since the 2015 Paris Agreement, fewer than one-fifth of net-zero targets set by national and subnational governments and only a third of the largest public corporations with net-zero targets actually meet science-aligned criteria. Further, anti-climate lobbying has had a disastrous effect on the planet and

March 10, 2023 1:07 PM Image Credit: kentoh/Shutterstock The climate crisis is painfully evident all around the world. From historic droughts and fires to hurricanes and warming waters, it’s clear that climate change isn’t just a future danger. It’s a present reality problem.  As a recent New York Times headline succinctly explains, “Climate change has