How Charles Keeling Measured the Rise of Carbon Dioxide
The climate scientist created a new method to measure atmospheric carbon dioxide. It's still used today.
Where Drug Trafficking and Climate Change Collide
With mounting pressure from cartels and worsening environmental conditions, Mexico’s Indigenous Rarámuri communities face a fraught future.
Could Venus’s Hell Climate Predict Earth’s Future?
The answer will require a probe that can withstand the planet's heat and atmospheric pressure to send back good data.
How Early Sci-Fi Authors Imagined Climate Change
A century before the modern “cli-fi” genre, many authors envisioned unsettling worlds shaped by man-made climate chaos.
Good News for the Lodgepole Pine!
The long-lived species' survivor genes are dispersed from the Yukon to southern California, meaning that it has a good chance of weathering climate change.
Extreme Cold and Public Opinion on Climate Change
To some, the idea that the Earth is warming seems incompatible with how they experience cold weather events.
Paul Krugman: Everything Is Political
An interview with the Nobel prize-winning economist on what to do about the “zombie ideas” that animate contemporary political discourse.
How to Sell Climate Denial
Climategate began with the leaking of emails sent to and from climate scientists. Climate skeptics quickly seized on just a few of them
Beware Marine Heatwaves
Marine heatwaves are becoming stronger and more common as the climate warms.
Environmental Challenges Ahead for Coffee Beans
The issues aren’t limited to extreme weather events or pest attacks.