Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, weather monitoring agencies announced Friday. It's the first time in ...

Floods, droughts and heat waves continue to dominate headlines around the world and in Australia. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. In the past few days, hundreds of ...

Two-thirds of climate-driven economic loss will result from increased heat reducing labor output under a worst-case scenario. Future economic damage from climate change would be caused mostly by ...

Energy — where we get it, how we use it and what it costs — is fundamental to the quality and stability of modern life. It influences virtually everything we do and affects everything we hope to have ...

According to the latest NOAA data, 2025 was Earth’s third-warmest year since records began in 1850. Global average temperatures in 2025 were 1.3°C (2.4°F) above pre-industrial (1850-1900) levels.

As more natural disasters and severe weather events take place, the impacts of global warming and climate change are being called into question. While many still doubt the actuality of climate change, ...

Twenty-five years ago this month, Dan Sarewitz and I published a widely read and discussed article in The Atlantic Monthly titled, Breaking the Global Warming Gridlock (unpaywalled version here).

With the climate crisis denial party now in control of all three branches of the federal government, some otherwise indifferent members of Congress need to carefully consider that the most immediate ...