Oregon lawmakers are aiming to make the state the second in the nation to mandate climate change lessons for K-12 public school students, further fueling U.S. culture wars in education. Dozens of ...

Dr. Robin E. Bell is president of the American Geophysical Union and a Palisades Geophysical Institute Lamont Research Professor at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. This op-ed ...

The year was 1987, and Earth's shield against the giant thermonuclear reaction in the sky was failing. Human-made chemicals in aerosol cans and refrigeration were eating up a thin protective layer of ...

This is the Dec. 29, 2022, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Another ...

Students on the San Francisco Peninsula are taking advantage of a program that teaches lessons on climate change and building projects that mitigate its effects on the community. At Oceana High School ...

56 million years ago, the Earth experienced one of the largest and most rapid climate warming events in its history: the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), which has similarities to current and ...

Forget what you thought you knew about the climate crisis. In terms of weather, this year will be so much more extreme than the past — but it could also be the year we take the path to change. Every ...

“Whose future? Our future! Whose planet? Our planet!” Our chants echoed through the streets of Chicago, carried by a group of individuals united in purpose. Our voices demanded accountability and ...

This is the Sept. 9, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. When last ...

A decade after Typhoon Haiyan decimated the Philippines, the city of Tacloban is setting a new standard for surviving global catastrophes. Each November, on the eighth of the month, the sidewalks in ...

Squirrels are found nearly everywhere, and their apparently playful demeanor makes it easy not to notice that their lives can be difficult. That rambunctious behavior we observe both in city parks and ...

The pandemic has brought many truths about journalism home. It refocused newsrooms’ attention on readers' needs, forced them to use science and data in their stories, and also report on what is going ...