Even brief variations in a city’s seasonal weather can totally throw entire metro areas into chaos. Montreal, Canada, experienced record-breaking heat last year that led to 66 preventable deaths. Temperatures…

On Monday, the leading distributor of natural gas in the Northeast, National Grid, sent an urgent-sounding email to many of its New York customers — not about summer energy savings,…

This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When it comes to climate change research, most studies bear bad…

An exhaustive new analysis of the world’s existing fossil fuel infrastructure finds that humans are already on track to exceed the 1.5 degrees C benchmark established by the Paris Climate…

A United Nations watchdog on poverty and human rights is the latest to call attention to the looming threat of a “climate apartheid.” In a report presented to the Human…

The drought that recently ravaged California for six years crushed salmon runs, torched hundreds of houses, and sent lawn-care professionals into a deep depression. It was the worst droughts in…

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Record-breaking heat across Alaska is pushing tourists to beaches, and sending…