How a Ben-Gurion University scientist is filling climate science’s biggest blank spots

From desert soils to date palms, Prof. Ilya Gelfand tracks the gases shaping our climate, and asks why no one was looking ...

'Doomsday Clock' moves closer to midnight over threats from nuclear weapons, climate change and AI

Earth is closer than it's ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries become “increasingly ...

What climate change means for the Winter Olympics

“We just don’t know what we’re going to get. We’re rolling the dice.” ...
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Weekend winter storm that battered eastern U.S. was supercharged by climate change

A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, and that’s why last weekend’s winter storm dumped more snow, sleet and freezing rain than similar weather systems might have in the past ...

Winter storm doesn't disprove climate change, despite Trump's claim

President Trump cited a major winter storm​ as evidence to suggest that global warming does not exist — a misleading claim ...

California's iconic Highway 1 is fighting a losing battle against climate change. Can it survive?

California marked a milestone this month with the return of an uninterrupted Highway 1 through the perilous, yet spectacular ...

National Park Service removes climate change facts sign from Civil War landmark Fort Sumter: report

The New York Times reported that the National Park Service removed a sign warning about the effects of climate change on the ...

Scientists Think We Could Slow Climate Change by Sinking Trees in the Arctic Ocean

Purposefully sinking boreal trees could help lock away carbon for millennia or longer, but the audacious plan comes with ...

Trump Mocks Climate Change Concerns Ahead of Winter Storm

The idea that brutal winter conditions of this kind mean that climate change isn’t happening is a misconception.

Is climate change weakening the polar vortex?

Rising Arctic temperatures and melting sea ice could be causing cold air to flow into the Northern Hemisphere. But not all ...

How this brutal winter storm is even possible with climate change – and maybe even more likely

The frigid temperatures, massive snow and deadly ice storm taking shape east of the Rockies might seem to conflict with life on a rapidly warming planet. But all of these things still happen, even ...

Climate change worsened rains, floods which killed dozens in southern Africa: Study

JOHANNESBURG -- Human-caused climate change worsened the recent torrential rains and floods which devastated parts of ...