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December 2025 was marked by catastrophic flooding across Western Washington. Highways crumbled, levees failed, and homes were ...

Click the downloadable graphic: What is attribution science? Humans have increased Earth’s temperature, mainly by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and methane gas. The resulting heat-trapping ...

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 ...

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The Microsoft co-founder wrote a lengthy memo warning against climate alarmism. Will it change how people talk about the issue or who funds climate action? By David Gelles Bill Gates issued a lengthy ...

Given that backdrop, I was struck by Bill Gates’ recent announcement of a major — and decidedly optimistic — shift in his thinking about climate change. “We’ve made great progress” on addressing ...

This story is excerpted from Shelter From the Storm: How Climate Change Is Creating a New Era of Migration, available January 6, 2026, from The New Press. In Guatemala, outside the town of Jocotán, in ...

Anthropogenic climate change is the clearest expression of this condition. It is not simply an environmental crisis. It is a crisis of human adequacy. At the center of Anders' thinking is the idea of ...