What do you think of when you hear the words climate change, Brittany Jefferson asked her fifth-graders. She moved around her classroom at Silver Lake’s Citizens of the World Charter School making eye ...

Angelique Hammack, a teacher in California, creates lesson plans about climate change for the website SubjectToClimate. She often starts from a question posed by one of her four children. Her ...

When Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica in October 2025, the damage was staggering. The storm caused an estimated US$8.8 billion ...

Climate coverage is often caricatured as being a deluge of bad news. The truth is more complicated. While 2023 certainly had its fair share of frightening developments, there were also signs of hope.

This issue has been with us for decades and now results in much wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth. My concerns include the need to consider energy systems globally rather than locally.

A wave of new and classic documentaries is exploring climate change through science, history, and human stories, offering urgent lessons as extreme heat threatens global food systems. From PBS’s ...

A study reveals that new dates for an ancient site in the Pacific correlate with sea level rise and El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variability. Nan Madol is a monumental complex, built from stone ...

Climate change has been tragically visible this fall. In the Valencia region of Spain, hundreds are dead or missing after intense flooding last week, with entire houses washed away and people trapped ...

Widespread forests once played a significant role in warming the climate during the Middle Miocene Climate Optimum (MMCO), while open Panama and Tethys Seaways served as "shortcuts" for the Atlantic ...

This is the Dec. 29, 2022, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Another ...

As the climate crisis intensifies, more states are considering mandating that climate topics be introduced across grade levels and subjects. Credit: Alastair Grant/Associated Press The Hechinger ...