Global Warming

The scientific community is working to make its predictions more accurate, but there's still a long way to go.

• By Francie Diep

Ticks that carry the pathogenic bacteria can now survive in environments where they previously would've frozen to death, resulting in an increased risk of infection.

• By Gabriela Serrato Marks

As a result of rising ocean temperatures coral bleaching is becoming more common, and it's causing a biotic homogenization of local fish populations.

• By Todd Woody

As food and water sources become threatened by changing weather patterns, experts say these are the areas most susceptible to instability and bloodshed.

• By Thor Benson

A new study examines the influence that the climate we live in has on shaping our personalities, and what that means in the time of climate change.

• By Amanda Kolson Hurley

A new study predicts a steep drop in fisheries' production. It's the latest in a growing body of research to show how changes to the Earth's ecosystems will cause disruption to its inhabitants.

• By Candace Butera

Assessing the present value of projecting how human impact on the world's environment will shape our reality hundreds of years from now.

• By Dmitry Yumashev

As the world fails to reach its emissions goals, some scientists say it's time to look for other solutions to the problem.

• By Jessica Leber

Research shows that Americans are far less concerned about the threat of global warming than their European counterparts.

• By Gregory J. Carbone

University of Hawaii law professor Maxine Burkett explains how small island states can use legal action to attempt to protect their way of life.

• By Ian Evans

This year's thinner, slushier ice is more vulnerable than the past's thick, multi-year ice, and it melts out rapidly during a spike in temperature or intense cyclonic activity.

• By Gloria Dickie

It's really getting hot in here.

• By Kate Wheeling

At a major Arctic symposium, experts say that iceberg swarms, melting sea ice, and crumbling coastlines are disrupting ships and displacing communities.

• By Bob Berwyn

The iceberg has a volume twice that of Lake Erie and weighs more than a trillion metric tons.

• By Francie Diep

Arctic sea ice is more unstable than ever, and the ice may be melting toward a record in 2017, or not; one place to find out for sure is on the Arctic Sea Ice Blog and Forum.

• By Gloria Dickie

Planes are grounded, tap water comes out hot, and we'd all better get used to it.

• By Eric Holthaus

Despite continued inaction by Congress, March was a really good month for clean-energy reform.

• By Ben DeJarnette

A new study finds that global warming is changing the way climate influences wine grape harvests, with potential implications for wine quality in the future.

• By Kate Wheeling

Without conversion to clean energy, rising energy demand worldwide will accelerate global warming. Here's what that means for the developing world—and for the rest of us too.

• By Ben DeJarnette

The oil and gas industry is the United States' biggest emitter of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

• By Francie Diep

China is the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter—and right now, Beijing is taking climate much more seriously than Washington is.

• By Francie Diep

In fewer than 40 years, the average person will have 3.2 percent less food available to him/her, according to a new study.

• By Madeleine Thomas

When a study last month found evidence of a slowdown in global warming, climate science skeptics gloated. Here's why they're wrong.

• By Ben DeJarnette

Talking to the locals in Lurigancho-Chosica, Peru, after a devastating season of landslides

• By Kary Stewart