Climate Desk
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A hot planet threatens food and water more than realized, IPCC says
The report's authors warn of "very high risks" of food system instability with 2 degrees C of global warming.
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We have to transform food production to take on climate change, leaked U.N. report says
If our diets don't change, global temperatures will.
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The Notre Dame disaster carpeted Paris with lead dust
A French environmental group is suing the city over widespread lead dust contamination released in the historic cathedral fire on April 15.
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Climate change is the one area of science Republicans tend to doubt
Why do Republicans scoff at climate science while embracing, say, particle physics?
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2020 Democrats are still unclear on how to stop the next Flint water crisis
Few, if any, of the 20 presidential hopefuls at the Detroit debates offered a clear vision of how to guarantee the water flowing from the nation’s aging pipes won’t make them sick, damage their children’s brains, and remain accessible as freshwater reserves dry up.
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Scientists are getting better at predicting killer heat waves
Scientists say that the number of heat waves in 50 major American cities has tripled since the 1960s.
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‘There’s no doubt left’ about scientific consensus on global warming anymore
“This paper should finally stop climate change deniers claiming that the recent observed coherent global warming is part of a natural climate cycle."
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Meet the Gulf War veteran who became an environmental champion
Russel Honoré, a folk hero in Louisiana, says toxic pollution is “one of our nation’s deadliest enemies.”
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Colombian coffee farmers are paying the price for climate change
The smallest farms are being hit the hardest
