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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
In this Sept. 29, 2021, file photo, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testifies before the House Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. A new Pentagon plan calls for incorporating the realities of a hotter, harsher Earth at every level in th
Critical State
Political climate: Part II
This Dec. 22, 2018, file photo shows a pump jack over an oil well along Interstate 25 near Dacono, Colorado.
Climate Change
Will big oil finally be held accountable for decades of climate misinformation?
In this Thursday, July 29, 2021, file photo, birds fly over a man taking photos of the exposed riverbed of the Old Parana River, a tributary of the Parana River during a drought in Rosario, Argentina.
Climate Change
The ’emotional whiplash’ of coming of age during the climate crisis
Woman in orange outfit walks in dry climate with girl in pink dress and boy in beige outfit
The Big Fix
NATO agrees to study how climate change impacts global security threats
Student activists carry posters and shout slogans as they participate in a protest march against climate change in Delhi, India, March 19, 2021.
The Big Fix
Author Kim Nicholas on the five stages of ‘radical climate acceptance’
Standing wooden crosses.
Climate Change
Faith and politics mix to drive evangelical Christians’ climate change denial
Mark Zuckerberg stands in front of a blue backdrop and speaks on climate misinformation using his hands
Climate Change
Major environmental groups join Facebook ad boycott to protest climate misinformation
Head in the sand
US politics
How science denial on the political right hampers the US response to COVID-19
People trudge through knee-high water carrying children and bags.
Climate Change
Clashing with Trump, US government report says climate change will batter economy
A voter carries a 'blue wave' poster at a rally
Politics
The US midterms ‘blue wave’ has mixed results for the environment
C-CHANGE group photo
Climate Change
Former EPA chief Gina McCarthy launches Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment at Harvard
Pompeo at Senate confirmation hearing
Global Politics
Pompeo nomination consolidates climate skepticism in Trump administration
"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
Climate change march
Science
It’s possible to ‘inoculate’ the mind against climate misinformation, a new study shows
Glaciers on the Melchior Islands off Antarctica.
Books
The ‘Madhouse Effect’ of climate denial in America
China climate change
Economics
China has climate change deniers, too. But they’re mostly shunned.
Former South Carolina congressman Bob Inglis says Donald Trump and his Republican party are "shrinking in science denial" on climate change because they don't like the solutions proposed by Democrats. But he says there's a simple conservative solution his
Environment
This Republican says his party’s denial of climate science is ‘courting disaster’ with voters
Pope with Obama
Environment
Pope Francis urges a ‘culture of care’ to repair the global environment
Kivalina, AK
Environment
Will these Alaska villagers be America’s first climate change refugees?
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
The Houston Ship Channel stretches 52 miles from the Gulf of Mexico to the city of Houston. Sea levels have risen 2.2 feet over the last century at Galveston, the main barrier island protecting the Ship Channel from a big storm.
Environment
The ‘Texas miracle’ is fueling huge economic growth — and the climate change that may end it
Southeastern and southwestern Australia have experienced some of the country’s most severe rainy season droughts over the last two decades (L). These are also some of the country’s most productive agricultural regions (R).
Environment
Faced with dire climate change, denial may actually help Australian farmers cope
Environment
New PBS documentary ‘Climate of Doubt’ looks at organizations fueling doubt in climate change
Secret Cash for Climate Denial
EPA Court Case in 2012
Environment
Federal court tells challengers to EPA carbon ruling, ‘This is how science works’
Climate Model Image, National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Environment
Here’s why I don’t respond to climate change deniers anymore
New Initiative to Promote Climate Change in the Classroom
Taking Climate Offenders to Court
Heating Up the Campaign Trail
Political Climate Change
Environment
Denial near and far