What Can the World’s Top Court Do About Climate Change?
The International Court of Justice, the United Nations’ highest judicial body, is beginning landmark hearings on global ...
Far From the Climate Talks: The Human Cost of Global Warming in 2024
Every month so far has seen floods, fires, smashed heat records or some combination of extreme weather. Little time remains ...
Is the Northeast Entering Its Wildfire Era?
The New York region is unlikely to ever have as many brush fires as out West. But residents need to be ready for more ...
Taxing Farm Animals’ Farts and Burps? Denmark Gives It a Try.
That’s because there are five times as many pigs and cows in Denmark as there are people. Nearly two-thirds of its land is ...
Transforming the Landscape to Help Fight Climate Change
The Linear Urban Forest concept would create greener space within densely populated urban areas. This would ultimately aid in ...
An Arctic Hamlet Is Sinking Into the Thawing Permafrost
Canada is losing its permafrost to climate change. The Indigenous residents of Tuktoyaktuk know they’ll have to move but ...
Are All These U.N. Climate Talks Doing Any Good?
The current talks “simply cannot deliver the change at exponential speed and scale, which is essential to ensure a safe ...
Saudi Arabia and Russia to U.N.: Don’t Talk About a Fossil Fuel Exit
A handful of oil-producing nations ensured that a United Nations General Assembly resolution on climate change steered clear ...
Climate Talks End With a Bitter Fight and a Deal on Money
The financing plan, which calls for $300 billion per year in support for developing nations, was immediately assailed as ...
Climate Talks Teeter, With Rich and Poor Countries in a Tug of War
Western countries are confronting demands for trillions of dollars to fight climate change and to cope with its worsening ...
Why Oil Companies Are Walking Back From Green Energy
As leaders gather for a global climate summit, investors are rewarding oil giants like Exxon Mobil that did not embrace wind ...
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We Study Climate Change. We Can’t Explain What We’re Seeing.
Schmidt is a climate scientist in New York City. Dr. Hausfather is the ... the goal set by the Paris climate agreement: to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels.