The daily measurements at the Mauna Loa Observatory were initially meant to track the Earth's breathing patterns, but as the record grew, it became clear that the Earth wasn't breathing normally.
You can reduce your carbon emissions, but the most influential changes will depend on your circumstances.
At a "wet bulb" temperature of 35 degrees Celsius, a human can't survive for more than six hours, even in shade and with water. We're starting to see those conditions more and more frequently.
Vox breaks down the impact our food choices have on the planet.
Multiple structures now keep the river from roaring into the Atchafalaya — but they may be inadequate against climate change.
April 2020 matched the warmest April on record, continuing the year's robust global warming trend. But much of North America was cooler than usual.
What lies inside the icy cavern seems more and more like a captive, rare animal, an Earth form that might soon be lost.
Brain geniuses like Elon Musk may want to colonize Mars, which, sure. But keeping Earth mostly habitable seems like a better use of time and resources.
NASA's new ICESat-2 satellite provides the most detailed look yet of where the continent is losing and gaining ice.
Climate change is already causing zombie forests where trees can't regenerate
The results surprised scientists.
The rapid rise of global temperature over the last century is almost certainly unprecedented in recent Earth history, but our current rate of sea level rise has stiffer competition.
Malibu homeowners banded together to address sea level rise. A decade later, they are at war with the city, the surfers and each other.
It's getting hard these days to escape the signs of apocalypse. But it won't be the pandemic (not this one, anyway) that spells our doom.
Figures from across the world show that we need to reconsider what we see as "essential."
Since the removal of two dams on the Elwha River in the Pacific Northwest, salmon are spawning once again, animals large and small are returning to the river banks, and hundreds of acres of barren former lakebed are greening.
In just two years, the UK's upstart radical environmentalist group has gone global.
Could lessons learned fighting coronavirus help tackle climate change?
Earth Day began after a catastrophe off California. Leadership and science restored nature and hope through years of despair and controversy.
A growing number of estimates say global carbon dioxide emissions could fall 5% in 2020. That would be the largest annual drop on record. But climate researchers say there is little reason for celebration.
Artifacts show people used the route for 1,000 years — then abandoned it, possibly amid a plague.
The next several months could bring hurricanes, floods and fire, on top of the pandemic currently raging through the country. How do you shelter in place during an evacuation?
Locust swarms are multiplying in eastern Africa as farmers plant their next harvest and the coronavirus threat grows.
Two communities — one in Canada, one in the US — share both a border along the St. Marys River and a toxic legacy that has contributed to high rates of cancer. Now the towns are banding together to fight a ferrochrome plant planned to process chromite from Ontario's Ring of Fire.
I'm paying Project Wren $15.70 per month to offset my carbon footprint. Can it do more than absolve my guilt?
Widespread social-distancing measures have produced some jarring effects across land, air and sea.
The ocean is undergoing unprecedented changes. What does it mean for marine life, the planet and us?
Major review reports recovery of marine life, but a redoubling of efforts is still needed.
Global warming could unearth ancient microbes. Will we be as unprepared as we were for the coronavirus?
Jenny Offill's "Weather" captures the dread of a global catastrophe.
Can attitude help save the planet? A frightened climate reporter meets an ex-basketball player with a serious game plan.
When farmers reduce tilling, plant cover crops and speckle their steads with livestock and trees, they're helping fight climate change and bolstering their bottom lines.
The Cowboy State should be a renewable energy juggernaut, but it's dominated by fossils fuels. Next step: Thinking of the future instead of digging up the past.
The future under climate change can seem frighteningly vague and variable. A top climatologist explains what to expect in 2050.
The coronavirus isn't a reason to put climate policy on hold. It's a warning of the calamities ahead.
The covid-19 pandemic has changed the world, grinding to a halt increasingly large geographic areas and portions of the economy in an effort to slow the virus' spread.
Preservationists have created the first "quiet park," with hardly a peep from humankind. Now they're hoping the tourists will come and spread the message of quiet.
The region comes alive during winter. But both culture and the economy suffer when the cold doesn't come.
PG&E pleads guilty to criminal charges in the deadly 2018 fire and will pay about $3.5m in fines.
The biblical mandate of "creation care" is taking on new urgency as the planet warms.
The biblical mandate of "creation care" is taking on new urgency as the planet warms.
Scientists argue that the long-term impact of the coronavirus pandemic on climate change will depend on how countries and corporations respond to an economic crisis.
A study has cemented the link between an intense global warming episode 56 million years ago and volcanism in the North Atlantic, with implications for modern climate change.
As if we needed any more evidence that the world is a psychedelic hellscape, RuPaul—yeah, that RuPaul— and his husband are making money off the fracking industry. Yes, yes, this sounds like a wild conspiracy theory. But we've got the receipts.
Solving the climate crisis will require politicians to aspire to new levels of ambition, free themselves from the fossil fuel industry and listen to the science.
Isolation and other shifts in behavior during the coronavirus outbreak could also alter our greenhouse gas emissions. But will the changes stick?
In Marble Bar, which claims to be Australia's hottest town, the temperature hit at least 113 degrees on 32 days this summer. Some residents worry that "there's got to be a point where you actually start to cook."
Sarah Miller thinks about climate change and other current horrors, and what it's like just being sad forever.
No matter how hard I tried, plastic kept sneaking its way back into my life.
Not by themselves, but the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive is out to show how they can help.
Last year the jackpot in the Nenana Ice Classic was $311,652. Watching ice melt just got really interesting.
Our species will face no shortage of existential risks in the coming decades. Can we sidestep them and carry on?
Something called the Arctic oscillation helped keep the polar vortex at bay. And then there's climate change.
The European Commission's climate law proposal would commit the 27 nations in the EU to become carbon neutral by 2050. But it's got some pretty serious shortcomings.
Like the Amazon, the Congo Basin rainforest is turning from carbon "sink" to source, new study says.
Forecasts for the largest living structure on Earth have become "devastating," scientists say, and the coral carnage will be even more widespread than the last mass bleaching in 2016-2017.
The effects of climate change could cause many common crops to shift their chemical makeup, often in ways that are toxic to humans.
The wispy ice clouds formed by jet exhaust help trap heat near the Earth's surface. But small changes in altitude can dampen the effect, a study says.
These ultra-efficient systems could massively reduce our emissions from heating and cooling buildings.
Though the plots of Garland's work — "Ex Machina," "Annihilation," and FX's new miniseries "Devs" — are different, their messages are similar: Earth is broken, and we are the ones who broke it.
