Most people think of climate change as a straightforward problem: more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means a warmer planet ...

According to data from the World Economic Forum, climate change is projected to cause 14.5 million excess deaths between now and 2050. The loss of workers across four major segments of the world’s ...

Sea level along the world’s coastlines is often much higher than previously assumed, a new study finds.

Teens have a shaky understanding of the causes of climate change and the strong scientific consensus around the fact that human activity is driving up global temperatures, according to a report. A ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Contrary to popular conception, Lake Chad is not shrinking; new research shows that the volume of water in the lake has increased since its low ...

In my August blog post, I explained climate change denial as a result of motivated inference, in which people's beliefs are biased by their goals. I still think this is a good explanation of why some ...

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Over the last two decades, economic losses from extreme weather (such as the damage caused by floods, mudslides and drought) has amounted to trillions of dollars. In parts of Kenya and particularly in ...

Two years after the flood, Dave Love can’t help but wonder about all the small details that could have changed his fate. The timing, the turn-offs, the many ways that he and Yuko Love, his wife of 33 ...