SA Special Editions

The latest climate models are giving disturbing answers

Evidence for human interference with Earth’s climate continues to accumulate

Everything is connected, and everything is changing

Climate change is dramatically altering life at the top of the world

Ocean acidification may alter the behaviors of underwater creatures in disastrous ways

Scientists are urgently transplanting, fertilizing and enhancing corals to help them adapt to warmer oceans, but rebuilding entire reefs will be daunting

Urban areas can improve the planet as well as people’s lives if we design them to be much more resourceful with energy, water, food and minerals

Coastal communities struggling to adapt to rising seas are beginning to do what was once unthinkable: retreat

Recent disasters show how climate change is making winter storms, flooding rains and summer heat waves more extreme

Such an extreme fire season is at least 30 percent more likely because of global warming, a new analysis finds

The Arctic climate is shattering record after record, altering weather worldwide

Can we remove enough CO₂ from the atmosphere to slow or even reverse climate change?

Thawing Arctic tundra will likely speed up climate change for a century or more. The question is: How drastically?

Climate change is accelerating the spread of disease—and making it much harder to predict outbreaks

The U.S. military is taking steps to limit the chance that worsening droughts, rising seas and melting Arctic ice will hasten uprisings that threaten national interests

A smart combination of math and policy choices can determine a practical tax that will cut CO₂ emissions 

Whether or not the world reaches an international emissions agreement, the U.S. government holds the real solution

Trees can't walk to a better place as climate worsens. So scientists are relocating helpful genes instead

Despite claims to the contrary, eliminating them would have a significant effect in addressing the climate crisis