Climate Change

This month brings us several great new books for the dedicated environmentalists on your holiday shopping list.

How an elementary-school science teacher helped a Utah Republican congresswoman start to take leadership on climate change.

For small island nations threatened by rising seas, swelling waters are a daily reminder of the need to act on climate.

Fracking has led to a large increase of hydrocarbon emissions in rural areas, reversing some regional air trends.

A new essay collection, Living in the Anthropocene, dissects our vast planetary impact.

Scientist Gleb Raygorodetsky explores the millennia-old relationships between indigenous communities and their local ecosystems, and how they can help us adapt to an uncertain future.

The disappearance of a tiny oceanic parasite, researchers warn, indicates that overfishing has caused an ecosystem to fall out of balance.

Researchers forecast that a decline in availability of nutritious sardines will shrink the population of Darwin’s famous Nazca boobies.

A difficult hurricane season unearths issues ranging from cancer hotspots to deadly bacteria.

Fires cost South Africa more than $750 million in damages in 2015.