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Baltimore Sues 26 Fossil Fuels Companies Over Climate Change
The city’s waterfront revitalization has become a model for urban development, but sea level rise and extreme weather are putting its future at risk.
Why Climate Change Continues to Be a Tough Sell
Why do nearly half of Americans still doubt the science? Researchers who study the question weigh in on the underlying fears and perceptions.
How Climate Change Will Transform Work
Workers in the Global South need more than wind turbines and high-brow organic farms—they need livelihoods that can mitigate ecological crisis.
What to Say to a Climate Change Skeptic
Call climate change what it is: violence
Rebecca Solnit: Social unrest and famine, superstorms and droughts. Places, species and human beings – none will be spared. Welcome to Occupy Earth
Frequently asked questions on climate change and disaster displacement
Displacement linked to climate change is not a future hypothetical – it's a current reality.
See How Pacific Islanders Are Living With Climate Change
For indigenous communities in the Pacific, adapting to the impacts of rising seas, fierce storms, and other challenges has become a necessity.
Why Fixing Climate Change Is Women’s Work
Natural resource scarcity and unpredictable weather affect women first, yet they’re often the last to be heard on how to combat it. That’s slowly changing.
Should We Be Having Kids In The Age Of Climate Change?
For some climate activists, the personal decision to have a child is also fraught with moral consequences: the negative impact on the environment, and on the quality of life for those children.
How 11 cities are leading the climate change fight
Mayors and city councils are on the front lines when it comes to creating greener government policy and tackling transportation issues, energy usage, and sustainability.
What 90,000 indigenous people have to say about climate change
A new study attempts to inject some anecdotal heft into the science of climate change by collecting observations from more than 90,000 people that historically depended on nature for their traditional way of life.
Why You Should Love Fossil Fuel
Every year on Earth Day we learn how bad humanity's economic development is for the health of the planet. But maybe this is the wrong message. Maybe we shoul...
11 Ways to See How Climate Change Is Imperiling the Arctic
The latest data is sobering. These visualizations show just how perilous the situation is.
What the world thinks about climate change in 7 charts
Majorities in all 40 nations polled say climate change is a serious problem, and a global median of 54% believe it is a very serious problem.
Our political beliefs predict how we feel about climate change
Climate skeptics are shown not to be less intelligent or less knowledgeable than people who believe in climate change.
Mark Ruffalo talks climate change and what you can do about it
“We don’t need a superhero, but maybe we do need more people to get angry and turn that into action.”
How companies make us forget we need to consume less to stop climate change
We will have to consume less, not more, if we are serious about tackling climate change. So how do businesses like Coca-Cola lure us into forgetting that inconvenient truth?
Who Will Suffer Most From Climate Change? (Hint: Not You)
Climate change is bad for everyone, but small farmers in developing countries will suffer the most. Bill Gates talks about what the world can do to help them.
When it comes to climate change, read the documents
We want you to read the documents the activists cite.
The map that shows who climate change really hurts
Global credit rating agency Moody’s has drawn up a map of the countries most at risk of defaulting on their debts because of climate change, showing that some of the poorest parts of the world are expected to be hardest hit.
