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, but about why they should contact government officials to voice…

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 news regarding the looming, very real threat of a warming…

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 Agreement. If existing sources of fossil fuel emissions (like factories,…

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 Rights Council on Friday, U.N. special rapporteur Philip Alston writes…

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 hundreds of years, and by the time it was finished…

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 flames across the unseasonably hot, dry state. Anchorage experienced higher-than-average…

If sometime during the past month you wiped sweat from your brow and thought, “Damn, it’s hot!” then congrats, your body knows what’s up. This past month was the hottest June ever recorded on planet Earth, according to the European…