Here’s a sobering fact: Even if the entire world transitions away from fossil fuels, the way we farm and eat will cause global temperatures to rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels — the ...

The annual gathering of top business leaders and policymakers used to be a center of the global climate movement. Things are ...

Türkiye is set to host the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31), one of the world’s most significant global climate summits ...

Americans overestimate small personal actions and underestimate collective power; effective climate progress requires ...

Few people are aware of the fact that “climate change” means very different things in science and in policy. That difference exposes the fundamental incoherence of climate policy, highlighted by the ...

Gina McCarthy remembers the way things used to be: Tar balls clinging to her legs after swimming in Boston Harbor. The Merrimack River colored bright blue and green by textile mill chemicals. Black ...

Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. In that dystopian novel, published in 1993 and set in the mid-2020s, the United States still exists but has been warped by global ...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), informally known as the World Court, issued an Advisory Opinion on climate change on July 23, 2025, which affirmed that states have an obligation to protect ...