The US is on a path to an unrecognizably hot future. Here’s what that looks like and how to change course. Last week, UCS released Killer Heat, a report analyzing how the frequency of days with a dangerously hot heat index--the combination of temperature and humidity the National Weather Service

As we glide along the path of our own destruction, this is how we normalise it – one tweet at a time.

Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to “tell it like it is.” On the basis of this obligation and the grap

Without transformative changes to save the biosphere, there will be untold suffering, scientists warn.

The fast-warming Sea of Okhotsk, wedged between Russia and Japan, is a cautionary tale of the far-reaching consequences when climate dominoes begin to fall.

Intentional blackouts by power companies were designed to prevent fires. Yet the strategy has not spared California from infernos caused by faulty infrastructure. It’s a case which sheds light on the equally untenable condition of capitalism applied to public administration.

Part Four of Ian Angus’s examination of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself.

Once seen as cost-prohibitive, pulling carbon dioxide out of air could become feasible thanks to a growing secondary market.

New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers

U.S. military is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet, yet this information and accompanying documentation goes almost entirely unreported.

As permafrost collapses, people turn to mammoth-tusk hunting and migration.

Saltwater is killing off woodlands all along the mid-Atlantic coast, sometimes surprisingly far from the sea.

Part Three of Ian Angus’s examination of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself.

Carbon cycles regulate the Earth's temperature and provide essential elements of life. Now capitalist industry and agriculture is disrupting those vital life support systems

Climate change and man-made fires could set off a cycle of self-perpetuating deforestation, scientists warn.

Climate change is severely straining the world’s oceans, creating profound risks for coastal cities and food supplies, a U.N. report finds.

Dana Nuccitelli: On 5 November 1965 climate scientists summarized the risks associated with rising carbon pollution in a report for Lyndon Baines Johnson

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A new study arrives at some disturbing numbers.. For years, scientists have struggled to figure out exactly how much methane is trapped under the ice at the north and south poles and what it would

Listening to the climate’s clock.

What we are witnessing is not a passive geological event but extermination by capitalism.

On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch.