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Jennifer Lawrence attends the world premiere of "Don't Look Up" at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021, in New York.
Climate Change
‘Don’t Look Up’ exposes the absurdity — and consequences — of climate change denial
Buildings burn as the Dixie Fire tears through the Greenville community of Plumas County, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021.
Climate Change
Climate change is driving extreme weather events around the world in 2021
Satellite mapping image of Hurricane Michael making landfall in Florida
Climate Change
Warming ocean waters turned Hurricane Michael into a superstorm
Bomb cyclone
Environment
Climate change will accelerate extreme weather events in the coming years
GOES-16 three hurricanes
Environment
Humanity has entered a global warming minefield, climate scientists say
"So much rain has fallen," the National Weather Service tweeted about Harvey on Monday, "we've had to update the color charts on our graphics in order to effectively map it."
Science
Harvey may have caught Texas by surprise, but other places have been getting ready for more extreme weather
The Polar jet stream carries weather systems around the northern hemisphere. It's powered by the temperature differential between the Arctic and areas farther south, but new research finds that it's being disrupted as rapid warming in the Arctic reduces t
Global Politics
Here’s a new climate change reality that Trump’s new policies ignore
Glaciers around the world are retreating as the climate warms. NASA tracked a retreat of 3 kilometers (2 miles) of Argentina's Upsala glacier, in Patagonia, between 2001 and 2013. A new anaysis of global temperature data from the Japan Meteorological Agen
Environment
Winter may be knocking on your window, but 2014 was the warmest on record