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Floodwaters slowly recede in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in Lafitte, Louisiana, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021.
New IPCC report says climate change poses an extreme risk to billions of people
The Castillo de San Marcos, one of the major heritage sites in St. Augustine, Florida,
Climate Change
Rising sea levels along Florida’s coast threaten to damage valuable archeological sites
The Thwaites Glacier is one of the hardest places in Antarctica to access, and scientists have only recently been able to go there to study it.
Climate Change
The melting and collapse of Thwaites Glacier could affect sea levels for years to come
A vast, white sheet of ice
Climate Change
Rapid ice melt and sea-level rise will be part of our global future — no matter what
A view of the Grand Canal following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Venice, Italy, May 24, 2020.
The canals are clear thanks to the coronavirus, but Venice’s existential threat Is climate change
A woman is shown wearing a red shirt and walking with a crate next to a heavily damaged home.
Climate Change
Earth’s hottest decade on record marked by extreme storms, deadly wildfires
Chair of IPCC Hoesung Lee presents Monaco's Prince Albert II with the special report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate Context at UN in New York.
Cut emissions to avert catastrophic sea-level rise: UN climate report
Drone footage shows large icebergs that have recently broken off the ice shelf in West Antarctica.
If Thwaites Glacier collapses, it would change global coastlines forever
Two yellow tents and a larger dome tent are staked into the snow. At the top of the image is a wing of a tiny prop plane.
Into the Thaw: Decoding Thwaites Glacier
These scientists used small explosions to ‘see’ under Antarctica and measure how fast a key glacier will melt
A man is shown laying on mud-covered mangroves wearing only green shorts with his left arm in the mud to his shoulder.
Climate Change
Brazil’s mangroves on the front line of climate change
A woman moves her things onto a table in a flooded home.
Environment
How floating homes will help people in flood-prone countries
chef
Into the Thaw: Decoding Thwaites Glacier
On a journey to Antarctica, a New Orleans chef awakens to the threat of melting ice
The eastern ice tongue of Thwaites Glacier is shown rising out of deep blue ocean waters.
Environment
Is Thwaites Glacier doomed? Scientists race against time to find out.
natural gas flares in an oil field
Climate Change
Lawsuit accusing ExxonMobil of ignoring risks from climate change moves forward
Researchers hoist the orange-colored Hugin autonomous submarine onto the deck of the Nathaniel B. Palmer.
Into the Thaw: Decoding Thwaites Glacier
Antarctica Dispatch 7: Under Thwaites Glacier
The eastern ice tongue of Thwaites Glacier is shown rising out of deep blue ocean waters.
Into the Thaw: Decoding Thwaites Glacier
Antarctica Dispatch 6: First sight of Thwaites — mapping uncharted seafloor
Nathaniel B Palmer in port
Into the Thaw: Decoding Thwaites Glacier
Antarctica Dispatch 1: Gearing up and shipping out
glacier
Into the Thaw: Decoding Thwaites Glacier
What Thwaites Glacier can tell us about the future of West Antarctica
people ride motorcycles through heavy pollution in china
Climate Change
UN climate warning: Immediate change needed to preserve ‘life as we know it’
Two men stand on rocky land as mountains and snow stretch out behind them. One holds a drill of some kind and is drilling into the rock.
If the Greenland ice sheet melts, what happens to New York City? This reporter went to find out.
Isle de Jean Charles
Climate Change
A new book tells the stories of people coping with a changing American shoreline
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
Snow is blown off of the calving front off of Thurston Island in western Antarctica in this photo, taken in November 2014. New findings show the western side of Antarctica to be more vulnerable to warming oceans — and increased ice loss — than first thoug
A scientist’s response to Antarctic ice loss: ‘We can act.’
This rendering depicts an aerial view of a flooded National Mall area in Washington, DC, in 2100 if global emissions rise and a Category 3 hurricane hits the city. It was included in an October 2016 webinar by University of Colorado Boulder’s Maria Caffre
Environment
National Park Service restores climate change language in new report after being accused of censoring science
Thwaites Glacier
Environment
Just how unstable is the massive Thwaites glacier? Scientists are about to find out.
Chevron Bay Area fire
Environment
Lawsuits took down Big Tobacco. Can they make oil companies accountable for climate change?
Nantucket erosion aerial
Environment
Nantucket’s bluffs and beaches are crumbling in the face of storms and rising seas
A portrait of 10-year-old Levi Draheim with brown-blonde curly hair.
Justice
This 10-year-old was already suing the government over climate policy. Then climate change really hit home.
Houses in this Florida neighborhood are perched at the edge of a rapidly-eroding part of the town of Satellite Beach. The town is one of the few in the state that's investing in a major plan to shore itself up against the rising seas and stronger storms b
Environment
One small Florida city tries to adapt to climate change, mostly alone
Elisabeth Holland
Environment
An American scientist stands up for the Pacific Islands at UN climate talks
Fiji's Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama recently led a rally in support of this year's UN climate summit in Germany, at which Fiji will be presiding.
Environment
Fijians speak from the front lines of climate change
“I don't want to have to do this,” Victoria Barrett says. “It's just I feel like it obviously needs to be done. It's frustrating... Sometimes I feel like people my age are fighting the hardest when we didn't even start this in the first place."
Global Politics
This 18-year-old from New York is suing the Trump administration over climate change
Hurricane Irma destroyed home
Environment
As seas warm, small island states face a dangerous future
From the rooftop to the bottle: Joris Hoebe's Hemelswater beer (“Heaven’s water”) is part of a citywide effort to control flooding in Amsterdam.
Culture
When life gives you too much rain, make beer with it
Flooding in Marin County
Environment
California counties sue oil and gas companies for damages caused by climate change
Dutch city on the river
Environment
The Netherlands, always vulnerable to floods, has a new approach to water management
An abandoned mosque outside the seawall in Muara Baru, Jakarta. The city is sinking as a result of massive groundwater extraction, and the problem is especially bad in Muara Barus, which is already below sea level.
Environment
Trying to confront a massive flood risk, Jakarta faces ‘problem on top of problem’
UMass Boston
Environment
Boston is preparing a plan to cope with climate change
Kiribati beach
Environment
Former Kiribati president eyes massive infrastructure projects to save his island nation
Aerial photo of Naval Station Norfolk
Environment
What it might take to protect the world’s biggest naval base from rising seas
Dikes once protected this broad area near the Dutch city of Nijmegen from flooding. But under a new policy for managing rising water levels due to climate change, the dikes have been moved back to allow a branch of the Rhine River to broaden out into its
Environment
Holland is relocating homes to make more room for high water
The biggest mobile barrier in the world, the Maeslant storm surge barrier was built to protect the Dutch city of Rotterdam from a one-in-10,000-year storm. It's part of the massive investment the Dutch are making to protect themselves in a new era of risi
Environment
As sea levels rise, Rotterdam floats to the top as an example of how to live with water
Louisiana's Isle de Jean Charles.
Environment
Rising seas are washing away two US towns. How they’re responding is a matter of faith, belief and money.
Miami real estate
Finance
Climate change could threaten trillions of dollars of financial assets, a new study reports
Glacier in Antarctica
Environment
Don’t let Antarctica’s size fool you. It’s melting fast.
For cities along Florida's Atlantic coast, flooding from high tides has already become a reality. Fort Lauderdale, Fla., September 2015.
Environment
South Florida Republicans are fed up with their party leaders on climate change
Florida canal overspill
Environment
Real estate is booming in south Florida, even as sea level rise becomes a reality
Environment
New report blames most rising seas on humans — but this scientist remains hopeful
John Holdren, President Obama's chief science advisor, says he's optimistic about the world's nations striking a strong climate deal next month in Paris, in part because both the motivation and the means to fight the climate crisis are "growing all the ti
Environment
For Obama’s top science guy, the climate outlook is partly sunny
Icebergs in Sermilik Fjord, SE Greenland, viewed from a helicopter.
Science
Here’s what climate change looks like from the edge of the Greenland icecap
Smog shrouds Chile's capital Santiago, June 22, 2015.
Environment
Climate change poses a massive health risk, but fighting it will be good for everyone
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
Dutch ecologist and dike designer Mindert de Vries stands on top of one of the new "soft" dikes being built near the Rhine River delta city of Dordrecht. Dutch innovations in flood control are helping reduce the adverse effects of older dike technologies.
Environment
With the waters rising, the Dutch find eco-friendly ways to keep them at bay
Environment
A new tool seeks to put more knowledge about storm surge in the hands of Americans
Environment
Scientists say the retreat of west Antarctica’s ice sheet is unstoppable
A sauteed shrimp with garlic ajillo and guindilla pepper plate is prepared at The Bazaar restaurant at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
Environment
Your cheap shrimp dinner is hurting the environment — and upscale rice could be the answer
A sauteed shrimp with garlic ajillo and guindilla pepper plate is prepared at The Bazaar restaurant at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
Environment
Your cheap shrimp dinner is hurting the environment — and upscale rice could be the answer
Most of Miami-Dade County and greater South Florida is barely feet above sea level, with new development moving into some of the most flood-prone areas.
Environment
For Miami’s immigrants, some of the cheapest land is the most vulnerable to climate change
Andrew Gilham of the UKs Environment Agency points to an area of land designated to be returned to the sea
Environment
With sea levels rising, the UK is starting to let go of some of its coastline
water
Environment
Climate change brings a new wrinkle to life on Palau’s islands: Fear of the sea