For over a century, humanity has rampantly burned fossil fuels to power the machinery of modern life, inexorably releasing gases into the atmosphere that are changing the Earth’s climate. The Bulletin ...

Food accounts for about one-quarter of all human-caused heat-trapping pollution. Meanwhile, extreme events fueled by our warming climate are impacting every stage of the food supply chain and driving ...

In June 2025, a climate change-driven heat wave caused roads to buckle in multiple states. The same heat caused train tracks to warp, resulting in major delays for rail commuters across the East Coast ...

The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending. Is it? Reading time 8 minutes If a 60-mile-wide (100-kilometer-wide) ...

Sociology and global climate change: introduction / Robert J. Brulle and Riley E. Dunlap -- The human (anthropogenic) driving forces of global climate change / Eugene A. Rosa, Thomas K. Rudel, Richard ...

Climate change is already affecting Madagascar, one of the most climate-impacted countries in the world. Without adaptation, an additional 1.68 million people in Madagascar could fall into poverty by ...

Alice Hill is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. Priyanka Mahat is a research associate for climate change policy. Estimating the ...

Digitally generated post apocalyptic scene depicting a desolate urban landscape with buildings in ruins and cloudy sky. The scene was rendered with photorealistic shaders and lighting in UE4 (Unreal ...

Scientists are trained to be professional skeptics: to always judge the validity of a claim or finding on the basis of objective, empirical evidence. They are not cynics; they just ask themselves and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Eccles writes about sustainability in the capital markets. I live in Concord, MA. My wife and I planned to go out for ...