Environmental and Indigenous rights defenders remained among the world’s most targeted human rights advocates in 2025, despite landmark rulings by international courts affirming governments’ obligations...
Scorching summer of 2003 triggered first efforts to deal with the problem but heatwaves still have devastating impactOn Wednesday, Pierre Masselot received a text from...
Drought, wildfires, invasive species and a deadly fungal disease isolated the once-abundant Chiricahua leopard frog to fewer than 80 Southwestern sites. The state, a nonprofit...
Changes may be coming for California’s Marine Protected Areas, and fishers, scientists and coastal communities are all grappling, nervously, with what it means.By Claire BarberBOLINAS,...
New research documents how older trees support younger saplings, and offers a different way to think about logging and maintaining important carbon sinks.Interview by Steve...
Forecasters say hottest conditions spreading into central and eastern EuropeAnalysis by scientists from the World Weather Attribution group found temperatures in the UK, Germany, France,...
Accumulation on Switzerland’s glaciers from last winter expected to all be gone by Monday amid ‘enormous’ melt rates across AlpsSwiss glaciers are set to lose...
Barbara Buffaloe from Columbia, Missouri, saw the global event as a chance to show that, despite federal cuts, ‘our cities are working together on climate...
France has been preparing for climate-fueled heat waves for more than two decades. In 2003, more than 14,800 people died as summer temperatures hovered above...
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02681-2Global greening has persisted under climate change, with feedbacks for Earth’s future climate. Here I look back...
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02673-2Mental health should not be viewed solely as a passive outcome of climate adaptation. Rather, it serves...
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02679-wThe 2021 Pacific Northwest heat dome shows how acute thermal stress challenges prevailing assumptions about ecological resilience...
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02682-1Distinguishing leaf scorching from senescence under climate extremes
It’s been nearly eight years since Congress reauthorized the farm bill, the massive legislative package that funds programs run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture....
With President Trump’s intensified attacks on climate policy during his second term, lawsuits challenging U.S. federal actions drove global climate litigation, a new analysis shows.By...
European residents and tourists voiced their concerns over soaring temperatures as the continent continues to grapple with ‘the most severe and widespread’ heatwave ever. In...
Scientists say hot spell is worst ever, with nearly half of region’s 850 largest cities facing unprecedented heat stress The number of deaths in France...
Delegates at an ‘anti-woke’ conference disparaged Ed Miliband’s net zero policies. But even they could not ignore the sweat on their foreheadsIt was hardly a...