If you're feeling that weird cocktail of guilt, fear, and "how do I even talk about this?"—welcome to the club.

Imagine the impact of climate change is irreversible, and decades of flooding, famine, pandemics and war have upended life on earth. That world is explored in Ian McEwan's new novel, “What We Can Know ...

In 2015, nearly two dozen American youth sued the federal government, alleging that the United States violated their constitutional rights by facilitating the burning of fossil fuels and allowing ...

In Lighthiser v. Trump, 22 young people are asking a federal court to declare executive orders that “unleash” fossil fuels ...

The impact of climate change is not lost on humans, but how are our feathered friends navigating these fluctuations? "There's this very close relationship between where birds are when on the planet ...

School-age children carrying signs reading “less pollution, more solution” and “people over polluters” gathered on Wednesday inside the U.S. Capitol to oppose the Trump administration’s plan to roll ...

Children’s room to roam independently was once measured in miles. Today, it’s often in feet. Here’s what they’re losing and what we can do about it. Every summer as a child, I waved goodbye to my ...

Elon Musk believes the collapsing birth rate is humanity's biggest danger. But antinatalists argue having kids is little more than a procreational Ponzi scheme, and the risks are real. This is the ...

Researchers have found six steps to overturn unfair economic and social systems that leave disadvantaged people at risk of climate disasters.

A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life forms make to our climate system, and how we can work with them to address ...

The Earth’s atmosphere is nothing but freely roaming molecules. Left alone, they would drift and collide, and eventually even out into a mixture that’s dynamic, yet stable and broadly unchanging. The ...