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this new world
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has led with empathy and science. But she still faces huge tests.
Breathing dirty air damages our health and can create underlying conditions that dramatically elevate the risk of complications and death from COVID-19.
Both are urgent global crises, both are taking lives ― but our reactions are very different. Climate experts explain why.
Wildfires burned around the world this year from Australia to California and the Amazon. These forest blazes are part of nature but climate change is making them more frequent and more intense.
It's called "ecocide" and even the pope is talking about it.
Few companies have clear “climate leave” policies setting out what workers can expect in the face of worsening disasters.
Online platforms are boosting climate activists’ voices like never before. But with that comes a challenging level of global exposure.
Koala Hospital has delivered a devastating update on the koala saved from fires by woman with the shirt off her own back.
“Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to ‘tell it like it is,’” says a new report signed by over 11,000 academics.
My plan was to cut my trash down to one garbage bag a month.