Best book lists, like best movie lists or rankings of actors and restaurants, are inherently subjective. Even if ...

Responding to climate change calls for a two-pronged strategy: mitigation – reducing GHGs that cause global warming; and adaptation – preparing for impacts of a warming world such as heat, wildfires, ...

Florida has long been the American dream destination. Sunny beaches, mild winters, and endless opportunities drew millions to the Sunshine State. Yet as climate patterns shift and extreme weather ...

This month's horrific flooding in Texas Hill Country, which killed at least 135 people when the Guadalupe River rose to unprecedented heights — at unprecedented speed — is the latest example of ...

Models, by definition, are approximations: useful, informative, and inevitably incomplete, because they are the only way to simplify a world too complex to grasp all at once. A new study on nitrous ...

I was honored a couple of weeks ago to be invited by Charlie Du, president of Columbia University Global Dialogue and founder of the World Salon series and website, to participate as a panelist on a ...

Dr. Hsiang and Dr. Burke are professors at Stanford who measure how climate influences human health and economic systems. Update: On Feb. 12, 2026, the Environmental Protection Agency repealed the ...

Jessica Green, author of ‘Existential Politics,’ argues that the international community’s focus on measuring emissions helped delay real action on climate change.

This story is a collaboration between Vox and Grist and builds on Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis, a project by Vox, Grist, and The 19th that examines how climate change impacts ...