Totten Glacier’s ice shelf edge. (Jamin Greenbaum)

Earlier this year, we learned some worrisome climate news. Although Antarctic scientists have been most concerned about loss of ice in the western part of Antarctica, a study in Nature Geoscience suggested a vulnerability in the much larger ice sheet of East Antarctica, as well...

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The investigation has been called a “moment of reckoning” for the corporation...

Prospective population displacement in the tropics under non-extreme warming

Scientist-authors such as Jared Diamond have shed great light on the role climate change always has, and continues to play, in determining the success or downfall of all species of life – humans included.

The problem is that we are causing climate change on a global scale, and more rapidly than has been the case since the end of the last Ice Age. The high and increasing costs are evident today, according to a new research paper...

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After questions were raised about foreign donations, the foundation's new plan for a Hillary Clinton presidency means less money for combating climate change...

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A lie remains a lie long after it is told. The subterfuge of industry to serve it’s bottom line at the public’s expense is a crime that warrants public outrage.  We have recently seen evidence of this type of reprehensible behavior from big tobacco, big oil and automakers...

A pedestrian crosses Congress Street during a severe thunderstorm in Boston. CREDIT: AP PHOTO/MICHAEL DWYER

Massachusetts is getting serious about meeting its climate goals...

Committee member Bill Foster questions Ronald Rotunda about Greenland sea level claims. (House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology)

Last week, the Republican-controlled House Committee on Science held a hearing to discuss a contentious move it made during the summer — sending out subpoenas to state attorneys general who are conducting an investigation of ExxonMobil in relation to climate change. Eight environmental groups also received subpoenas...

A man walks past smoldering forest lit for land-clearing in Minas, Riau province, Sumatera, Indonesia CREDIT: AP/TATAS SYUFLANA

Fires associated with palm oil and timber are mostly to blame, new study finds...

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrives to attend ASEAN Summit in Vientiane, Laos September 8, 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - U.N. officials have said they are confident the Paris climate change agreement will enter into force by the end of 2016, with at least 20 countries indicating they will join it at a U.N. event on Sept. 21, adding to the 27 that have already done so...

Sandy Garcia sits in her vehicle on a flooded street in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Sept. 30, 2015. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

By Donald Trump’s account, scientists have tricked Americans into accepting that global warming is caused by the burning of fossil fuels...

The second-noisiest animal in the ocean, the snapping shrimp. Image Credit: Dr Tullio Rossi, CC BY-SA

The oceans are filled with sounds produced by animals. However, a recent study shows that ocean sounds are diminishing due to nutrient pollution and ocean acidification...

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Once upon a time, climate science and politics were separate things. Then came several decades of scientific denial, distortion, and gaslighting...

Coal miners at a 2016 Trump Rally in West Virginia AP/Steve Helber

In a year of record-setting heat on a blistered globe, with fast-warming oceans, fast-melting ice caps, and fast-rising sea levels, ratification of the December 2015 Paris climate summit agreement—already endorsed by most nations—should be a complete no-brainer. That it isn't tells you a great deal about our world...

Compared to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton's environmental credentials seem impeccable. But what does her actual record say about her commitment to green issues - and will she be able to get the climate treaty passed?

Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts credit:Rueters

Climate science denialists will often fool people, and sometimes themselves, by cherry-picking the bits of evidence they think fit their argument...

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 UN expects nearly 50 countries to have ratified new global pact to slash fossil fuel emissions by 21 September...

Climate warming makes an ice-free summer Arctic Ocean all but inevitable. But some groups are risking their credibility to predict when this will happen with far more accuracy than is possible given current science. Photo by imageBROKER/Alamy Stock Photo

People keep claiming to know when the Arctic will become ice-free. They don’t...

I have a post at Nate Silver’s 538 site on how we can predict annual surface temperature anomalies based on El Niño and persistence – including a (by now unsurprising) prediction for a new record in 2016 and a slightly cooler, but still very warm, 2017...