Climate Change

By Eva Vergara This has been the wettest winter in decades for Chile's arid northern desert, where fractions of an inch of rain have done major damage in some areas and set the stage for spectacular floral...

  The sweltering month of July has come to an end, but not before over 2,000 records were broken by high temperatures. The Huffington Post reports that some cities hadn't seen this kind of heat in 140...

By Tom Zeller Jr. On Dec. 19, 2008, a 27-year-old man named Tim DeChristopher, troubled by American energy policy and its contribution to global warming, broke the law. He did so by attending a federal auctio...

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By Tara Kelly Scientists have long predicted the rise of climate change-fueled war. But now, the U.N. Security Council is examining whether a green helmet force should intervene in conflicts caused by rising se...

By TAMMY WEBBER For millions of people enduring this week's extreme heat and humidity, it feels like they're living in a pressure cooker. And in a sense, they are. Much of the United States is trapp...

By Tom Zeller Jr. The notion that nature itself will act as a check on the atmospheric excesses of humanity has long held a fair amount of appeal, not least because it draws on a nugget of high-school science t...

Today, The Climate Reality Project (formerly the Alliance for Climate Protection) announced a new global campaign to broadcast the reality of the climate crisis and mobilize citizens to help solve it.  The...

Crews at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have completed the first of a series of projects designed to prevent any trace of nuclear and other contamination from being washed downstream by flooding triggered b...

By Andrew Malcolm Former newspaper reporter Al Gore is attacking President Barack Obama for a lack of "bold action on climate change." In a 7,000-word essay you won't want to fail to miss i...