Greenland's Ice Can No Longer Handle Hot Summers
A team of scientists is warning that the double whammy of a naturally recurring weather pattern and rising temperatures…
More Than Three Quarters of Venice Underwater After One of the Worst Floods on Record
Venice isn’t just a city of canals: Normally, there are nice dry spots to take in the sights. But on Monday, dry…
Climate Change Is Making Our Hurricane Scale Obsolete
One of the things you can count on in the wake of a hurricane making landfall is people clamoring for a new…
How a Deeply Conservative Island Became a Poster Child For Climate Change
For over twenty years, Virginia-based journalist Earl Swift has been writing about Tangier Island, a tiny slip of land…
Not Even the Internet Is Safe From Rising Sea Levels
If the internet went down, America would devolve into chaos. A new study suggests that’s an increasingly likely…
An Iceberg the Size of Lower Manhattan Just Broke off Greenland
Iceberg calving events are among the more epic spectacles on the planet. But rarely have humans been lucky enough to…
Coral Reefs Aren't Keeping Up With Sea Level Rise, and That's Bad
For many communities in the coastal tropics, colorful corals stand as a natural buffer against the daily ebb and flow…
The Flooding Crisis Is Here For the US
U.S. coastlines saw record levels of high tide flooding last year, thanks to a combination of powerful storms and…
The Great Barrier Reef Has a Surprisingly Morbid History
It’s no secret the Great Barrier Reef is in dire straights thanks to human-caused global warming. But it turns out…
Breaking: Trump Administration Climate Change Report Mentions Climate Change
The resistance is on a roll. Fresh off the small victory of the NASA administrator saying accurate things about climate…
Tabasco Sauce Is in a Battle For Its Very Survival
Row after row of blackened wood barrels are piled 30 feet high in a dim warehouse on Avery Island in southern…
The Way This Dutch Designer Dealt With Light Pollution Is Ingenious
The Afsluitdijk is a 20-mile dam that has been protecting the low-lying Netherlands from the force of the ocean for…
Future Bay Area Flooding Could Be Even Worse Than We Thought
If you think the housing crunch is bad in the Bay Area now, just wait. New findings show that more land is sinking into…
Report: ‘Pretty Much Every One Threw Up’ on a Flight Through the Nor’easter
Flying in the nor’easter: maybe don’t do it.
New Maps Show Us Where Antarctica Is Shrinking Fastest
If even a fraction of Antarctica’s ice melts, the resultant sea level rise will reshape coastlines around the world. A…
NASA Is Flying Over Greenland to Predict the Future of Our Coastlines
If we don’t pump the brakes on climate change, all of Greenland could eventually melt, adding about 24 feet to global…
In Hawaii, Sea Level Rise Could Displace Thousands and Cost $19 Billion
Sea level rise could mean paradise lost in Hawaii. The only island state in the union could face widespread…
Climate Change Is Causing the Seafloor to Sink
If there’s one thing we’re learning about this global planetary experiment called climate change, it’s that there are…
The Inside Story of Miami's New Climate Tax
If Miami is still around in 100 years, its residents should probably be thanking outgoing mayor Tomas Regalado’s…
California Counties Are Suing the Oil Industry After a Record Fire Season
Throughout California, local governments have been attempting to find some security against climate change in the…