Cottages at Birling Gap were once one of seven properties. The fifth pebble-dash end-of-terrace was demolished in March 2014. Photograph: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images

From Wordsworth’s gardens to the south’s white cliffs and salmon rivers in Wales, climate change is wrecking historic sites, finds report...

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DURHAM -- Duke University researchers say the fish they caught in three North Carolina lakes that’ve taken power plants’ coal-ash waste showed relatively high levels of selenium, an element left over from the combustion process...

Green workers install a residential grid-tied solar array on a hillside in Malibu, California, USA. (Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/UIG via Getty Images)

Putting solar panels on rooftops and arrays is a labor-intensive process. You need people to design and manufacture the panels. Then people to market the panels to homes, businesses, and utilities. Then people to come and install them...

Abnormally warm air is expected to reach the North Pole by Thursday.
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Weird. Strange. Extreme. Unprecedented...

Folsom Reservoir near Sacramento, shown in a depleted state in August 2015, after the driest winter ever recorded. Dams like Folsom are trapping massive amounts of sediment that isn't available to rebuild eroding shorelines, a bill that will come due as sea level rise increases.Randall Benton, Sacramento Bee

Rivers are supposed to transport sediment. We need that sediment to combat sea level rise. But the dams we need for water are holding back the dirt, a problem that may become acute very soon...

Smoke billows from smokestacks and a coal-fired generator at a steel factory in China. Scientists have developed a new method for tracking countries' compliance with the goals set forth in the Paris Agreement. (Kevin Frayer / Getty Images)

 If the United States and its fellow Paris Agreement signatories are to meet global climate targets, they’re going to have to make serious commitments that attack the problem on multiple fronts, including reducing coal use, raising renewable energy, accelerating carbon-capture technologies and electrifying more of our automotive fleet, a new analysis shows...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, shaking hands with then-Exxon chief executive Rex Tillerson during a 2013 ceremony awarding oil company heads and employees, now finds himself aligned philosophically with the U.S. on a lack of enthusiasm for the Paris climate agreement. Credit: Sputnik/Michael Klimentyev/Kremlin/via REUTERS/File Photo

The only big emitter to not ratify the Paris climate agreement, Russia may find it easier to slough off climate action with the U.S. matching its oil-focused view...

Norway, Credit: Dean/flickr

The history of climate and human health gives us a glimpse of the dramatically amplified risks we face if present trends continue...

Michael Eisen in his lab at the University of California in Berkeley, Calif. Dr. Eisen registered the Twitter handle @SenatorPhD and declared his intention to run in the 2018 election for a seat in the United States Senate. Credit Jason Henry for The New York Times

Michael Eisen, an evolutionary biologist, is among the elite of American scientists, with a tenured position at the University of California, Berkeley, and generous funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for his research on fruit flies...

NOAA researchers have faced unprecedented requests for access to their unpublished research from conservative groups and politicians. Credit: Getty Images

As researchers strive to keep their unpublished work private, many brace for more anti-science government interference under Donald Trump...

Resist American Fascism...

There is no left or right, only tyranny or freedom, nature or ecocide. Ascendant authoritarian fascists seeking to oppress others and obstruct responses to scientific truths with hate speech and alternative facts must be resisted and eliminated from public discourse and power...

Scott Pruitt, President Trump’s nominee for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, answers questions from senators during a confirmation hearing in January. Credit Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times

Not long ago, many Republican officeholders had a simple answer when asked about the changing climate: What changing climate?

Wind farm in Xinjiang, China Credit: 林 慕尧 / Chris Lim, CC BY-SA 2.0

Earlier this month China halted more than 100 coal-fired power projects. Scrapping these projects, with combined installed capacity of more than 100 gigawatts, may have more to do with China’s current overcapacity in coal production than its commitment to mitigating climate change. Nevertheless, Chinese leaders are likely happy that the move is framing their nation as a green energy leader, according to experts in Chinese and environmental policy...

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel at the National Press Club in Washington in October 2016. He obtained New Zealand citizenship in 2011 and has bought a 173-hectare property in the South Pacific countryReuters

New Zealand has become the favored refuge from global disorder for tech billionaires and financial big-hitters...

Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson on Jan. 17,  2017. Image: REX/Shutterstock

Rex Tillerson, the longtime head of ExxonMobil, won Senate confirmation on Wednesday to be secretary of state. In this new role, Tillerson will be in charge of U.S. international climate negotiations as well as international aid efforts on climate-related disasters...

An iceberg floats off the coast of West Antarctica as seen by NASA Operation IceBridge airplane on October 27, 2016.Mario Tama/Getty Images

Last March, a paper by a geoscientist named Rob DeConto came out in Nature. And as far as geology papers go, it was a big deal: It outlined a new paradigm for how Antarctic ice sheets are impacted by climate change. As the oceans and atmosphere warm, they don’t just melt the ice from below; they create honking cracks in glaciers that make it easier for large chunks of ice to break off, slip into the ocean, and disappear. The effects on sea level rise? They could be almost twice what scientists had predicted for the end of the century...