The warming of the world’s climate has reached a fever pitch in recent years, causing records to fall like dominoes. In 2015, the planet saw a number of such records set, from the hottest global temperature measured to the largest annual increase in carbon dioxide...

The White House in Washington, in this Tuesday, Nov. 18,2008 file photo.  (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

In the past several weeks alone, the Obama administration has made multiple new moves to fight climate change...

Snowcapped mountains and evergreens along the Alaska Highway. credit: Getty Images

A critical artery is threatened by thawing permafrost...

Scientists attribute several extreme weather events to climate change. Clockwise from top left: a 2013 drought in New Zealand; fires in Los Angeles last month; a 2014 heat wave in Australia; flooding southeast of Paris in June. The goal of the research is to get sound scientific analysis to the public to help counter misinformation, deliberate or otherwise, about an event. Credit Clockwise from top left: Christine Cornege/New Zealand Herald, via A.P.; Gene Blevins/Reuters; Daniel Munoz/Getty Images; Jeremy Lempin/European Pressphoto Agency

When days of heavy rain in late May caused deadly river flooding in France and Germany, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh got to work...

Photographer: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Being underwater will soon mean exactly what it says. Especially in Florida...

Decomposing coral on the Great Barrier Reef. All mentions of Australia were removed from Unesco’s report on climate change and world heritage sites. Photograph: XL Catlin Global Reef Record via/AP

Federal environment department says Unesco sought and was granted heavy redactions in freedom of information documents...

Bill Snape, a professor at American University, dressed as a polar bear to raise awareness about climate change during a demonstration in Philadelphia before the Democratic National Convention. Credit Mark Makela for The New York Times

WASHINGTON — During the 2012 race for president, the issue of climate change was nearly invisible...

Pipes for the proposed Dakota Access oil pipeline, that would stretch from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to Patoka, Ill., are stacked Saturday, May 9, 2015, at a staging area in Worthing, S.D. The proposed oil pipeline will traverse North and South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Despite several months of heavy opposition, an oil pipeline slated to cut through four Midwestern states has all the regulatory permits it needs for full build-out...

A geodesic dome covers a geothermal wellhead at the Hellisheiði Power Station in Iceland. Photo by Umair Irfan

HENGILL, Iceland -- Billowing vapor clouds and the faint smell of boiled eggs lead visitors over a gravel road toward the Hellisheiði Power Station, 15 miles southeast of the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik...

‘A fabulous alien metropolis’: Crescent Dunes in Nevada. Photograph: SolarReserve

It looks like a set from a sci-fi epic, but this solar plant in the scorching Nevada desert has a far more practical purpose…

‘That 30% chunk of greenhouse gases that comes from non-fossil fuel sources isn’t static. It is adding more to the atmosphere each year.’ Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Global Warming Images/Alamy

It’s time to pour our creative energies into imagining a new global economy. Infinite growth is a dangerous illusion...

As a scientist, I know that continuing climate change is the biggest threat to the security and prosperity of our state, our country and, indeed, the whole world. I also see the enormous economic opportunities provided by mitigating climate change...

Illustration: Ellie Foreman-Peck

Money was a key factor in the outcome of the EU referendum. We will now have to learn to collaborate and to share...

Landscape deeply scarred by an open cut coal mine in Hunter Valley, Australia.Max Phillips / Flickr

Humans' appetite for gnawing away at the fabric of the Earth itself is growing prodigiously. According to a new UN report, the amount of the planet's natural resources extracted for human use has tripled in 40 years...

As scientists have long predicted, more winter precipitation at Lake Tahoe is falling as rain, rather than snow. (Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)

Lake Tahoe is showing some severe impacts from the changing climate...

University of Hong Kong postgraduate researcher Liu Yi examines a testing point for groundwater in Ting Kok, Tai Po. Photo: SCMP Pictures

A wave of harmful red tides killed off 220 tonnes of fish across mariculture zones, mostly in the Tolo Harbour area this year...

credit: Courtney Menard

Several months ago, climate scientist Ed Hawkins made headlines with a stunning animated visualization of the change in global temperature over the past 150 years...

In September 2015, InsideClimate News published a groundbreaking series detailing a decades long scheme by oil giant ExxonMobil regarding the company’s knowledge of climate change and overt plans to cover up this knowledge while misleading the public...

In this photo taken Oct. 12, 2012, the sun rises behind electricity poles and wind turbines in Nauen, near Berlin, Germany. CREDIT: AP Photo/Ferdinand Ostrop

Nuclear power advocates are trying a new line of attack on solar and wind energy — it’s too darn cheap!