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Two surgeons wearing protective masks and caps are closely focused on a procedure, illuminated by surgical lighting.
Health & Medicine
EU bans an anesthetic with a large impact on the climate
Syed Sajjad Ali inspects tomatoes planted inside a Kheyti greenhouse.
The Big Fix
This greenhouse innovation helps farmers in India cope with climate change
firefighters in a line
Climate Change
The world kept warming in 2022. Is the 1.5-degree Celsius target within reach?
Khadija Mohamed al-Makhzoumi is Somalia's first environment and climate change minister.
Climate Change
Somalia’s first environment minister aims to alleviate suffering from climate disasters
Women carry belongings salvaged from their flooded home after monsoon rains, in the Qambar Shahdadkot district of Sindh Province, of Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. 
Natural disasters
‘Doomsday’ flooding in Pakistan linked to glacial melt, expert says
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
Extinction Rebellion protestors march on the Dail (parliament) on Budget day in Dublin, Oct. 8, 2019.
The Big Fix
Activists took the Irish govt to court over its national climate plan — and won
Building reads "climate emergency" with flares of red and orange hues on the front of the building
Climate Change
UN climate chief on coronavirus and climate change: We must ‘address these two fundamental, existential crises together’
A person holds a replica of a burning globe in the air with fake flames coming out of it.
The Big Fix
‘The mother of all injustices is climate change,’ says former diplomat and climate change leader
A facility for capturing carbon dioxide from the air of Swiss Climeworks is placed on the roof of a waste incinerating plant in Hinwil, Switzerland, July 18, 2017. 
The Big Fix
Can direct air capture make a real impact on climate change?
Hurricane Katrina aerial view
Justice
Quest for racial justice in US must include environmental and climate issues, activists say
Environmental activists of Swiss Klimastreik Schweiz movement hold banners, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in front of the opera house on the Sechselaeutenplatz square in Zurich, Switzerland, April 24, 2020.
The Big Fix
What history tells us about building climate coalitions
American Airlines passenger planes parked due to flight reductions made to slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Tulsa International Airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on March 23, 2020.
The Big Fix
Coronavirus has changed how we transport goods and ourselves. But will it last?
Philippines residents use improvised devices to catch fish atop their house which is submerged by floods
In 2020, the courts will continue to be a player in climate change
A close up of a man on a green background
Climate Change
This Bangladeshi man’s story shows why linking climate change with conflict is no simple matter
Protesters wear yellow jackets and sign that speak of climate emergency in Spanish language
Climate Change
Activists enraged by slow pace of climate diplomacy in Madrid
A woman stands and speaks at a podium
Climate Change
As US steps back on climate change, will EU and China take the lead?
A person with white face paint and red robes stands near man in black uniform
Climate Change
4 things to watch at the climate talks in Madrid
Dozens of birds are shown flying next to large electricity pylons on a smoggy afternoon.
Climate Change
Global temperature rises could bring ‘destructive’ effects, UN says
Penguins stand on ice in Antarctica.
Environment
Emperor Penguins could march to extinction if nations fail to halt climate change
climate rally
Nov. 4 is the first day Trump can legally leave the Paris Accord
An estimated 100,000 people turned out for the climate strike in Berlin on Sept. 20, 2019.
Climate Change
In Germany, the politics of climate change are shifting beneath Merkel’s feet
A cityscape of Anchorage, Alaska with dog-sled racers and mountains
Climate Change
With an Indigenous perspective, Anchorage seeks to adapt to climate change even if Alaska doesn’t
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres
Climate Change
Why 2020 is a key year for climate action
Four girls sit in a row of protesters, one with a long braid is speaking and gesturing with her hands.
Climate Change
Teenage activist Greta Thunberg takes protest to climate-change denier Trump
"Ice on Fire" filming
Arts, Culture & Media
HBO’s ‘Ice on Fire’ focuses on solutions to the grave dangers posed by climate change
Paris Climate Agreement 2015
Climate Change
The next UN Climate Change Summit aims to push the world to do more and do it faster
Jay Inslee climate scorecard
Elections
Greenpeace releases scorecard for Democratic presidential candidates’ commitment to climate change
dried mud in south africa
Environment
Climate disruption is worsening global economic inequality
a man inspects a levee in kansas
Climate Change
Climate change is intensifying food shocks
children on a beach on earth day
Environment
Earth Day has come and gone, but the work continues
Syrian refugee, Malik Alarmash, left, speaks with Clarkston Mayor Ted Terry, right, at the Refuge Coffee Shop in Clarkston, Georgia. Stephanie Steinbrecher with the Sierra Club, center, listens.
Climate Change
Legally, ‘climate refugees’ don’t exist. But in Georgia, they say they’re already here.
AOC Green New Deal
Climate Change
The Green New Deal doesn’t include carbon pricing. Some say that’s a big mistake.
Nairobi youth climate strike
Climate Change
This high school sophomore from Minnesota ‘jumped on the bandwagon’ to save the planet
kids climate march
Climate Change
How European kids are schooling politicians on climate change
Honduran mother and child on their way to US
Climate Change
Climate change is the overlooked driver of Central American migration
Wind turbines Morocco
Climate Change
Almost all countries have fallen short on climate change commitments
A group of school children hold signs that read "12 years left"
From the Amazon to the Arctic, The World’s biggest environmental stories of the year
A man wearing googles holds up a sign that says "stop fossil fuel! there is no border in the sky!"
Climate Change
The world struck a major climate deal in Poland. So, what’s in it?
COP 24 session in Katowice, Poland
Climate Change
The Trump administration continues to undercut its own climate report
abandonded house with encroaching seawater
Climate Change
UN compact recognizes climate change as driver of migration for first time
Attenborough speaks at the podium in Poland's climate change talks.
David Attenborough: Global warming is ‘our greatest threat’
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 sun sets behind a cloud over a grey body of water
The Big Melt
Arctic permafrost is starting to thaw. Here’s why we should all care.
A woman wearing a purple scarf stands in a field holding maize stems
World hunger is on the rise again, and climate change is a culprit
John Kerry signs Paris Climate Agreement holding granddaughter
Climate Change
John Kerry wants us to respect US democracy — by voting for a cleaner planet
Mexico Beach, Florida, after Hurricane Michael
Climate Change
Even a slight increase in global warming could be catastrophic, experts warn
Arctic Fox
Take our Arctic quiz
A large concrete sphere sits on a brown hill overlooking a slate blue sea.
The Big Melt
In Iceland, a shifting sculpture for a changing Arctic  
people ride motorcycles through heavy pollution in china
Climate Change
UN climate warning: Immediate change needed to preserve ‘life as we know it’
a closeup of California Governor Edmund "Jerry" Brown
Environment
California emerges as a leader at climate summit
A woman rolls a bicycle through waist-high floodwaters
Climate Change
Scientists say 25 years left to fight climate change
Maize weevil
Climate Change
Study: Climate change will bring more pests, crop losses
Miami sunny day tidal flooding
Climate Change
Does a new GOP proposal to create a carbon tax have a chance?
Under a new carbon offset program that is gaining popularity in Congress, oil and gas companies — and other manufacturers of products involving — fossil fuel would have to pay $40 for every ton of carbon emitted into the atmosphere.
Politics
New carbon offset program may have the bipartisan support it needs on Capitol Hill
Growing high tides have turned this photo — taken from Pompano Beach, Florida, after Hurricane Sandy in 2012 — into a regular occurrence along the U.S. coastlines.
Climate Change
New report forecasts a troubling picture of rising tides, frequent flooding on coasts
Corn, or maize
Climate Change
The global corn crop is vulnerable to the effects of climate change
Horse on dry lake
Climate Change
Climate change is contributing to the migration of Central American refugees
The overall catch from lobstering in Maine was down 16.4 percent in 2017 from the year before. Those who catch lobsters for a living in the state are hoping that downfall does not continue in 2018.
Jobs
The feast-or-famine life of lobstering in Maine
Penguin in Antarctica
Environment
How do we process doom-and-gloom climate news? How should we?