Sixteen children await a decision from the United Nations on whether their home nations have endangered their rights by not adequately responding to climate change.
Covering Climate Now
Great Lakes Cities’ Sewer Designs Mean Waste in the Waters
In older cities, a single system of pipes may transport sewage and stormwater runoff. As the climate crisis brings more intense storms, urban areas like Toronto are overhauling their drainage systems.
Eight Lessons from COVID-19 to Guide Our Climate Response
The global response to the ongoing pandemic can teach us how we should, and shouldn’t, respond to the climate crisis. And most important, it shows that we can do something.
How to Turn Our Cities Into Treetopias
We are and will continue to plant more street trees, urban groves and informal clusters of trees in our parks and green spaces. Treetopia has begun.
How Financial Markets Can Grow More Climate Savvy
Take extreme weather risks into account, and markets could prove hardier in a changing world.
Photography Focuses on Sea Level Rise and Eroding Communities
Narratives from applicants for the Getty Images Climate Visuals Grants provided a unique insight into the reality of climate change. Both winners focused on the impact of sea level rise.
A Tribe’s Uphill Battle Against Climate Change
Tribes like the Quinault are ill-equipped to adapt their reservations to wide-ranging, increasing threats from climate change.
Australia, Your Country Is Burning—Dangerous Climate Change Is Here With You Now
I am a climate scientist on holiday in the Blue Mountains, watching climate change in action.
What the Arctic Ice Tells Us
With so few long-term climate data sets, the importance of the sea ice record is hard to overstate, and 2019 now ranks among the lowest ice minimums in the 40-year satellite record.
As Arctic Sea Ice Disappears, What Happens to Ecosystems?
The northern Bering Sea is experiencing record-setting low winter sea ice levels, which are impacting plankton, fish, and other animals in the region.