This month, we covered a long-term analysis suggesting that landfill methane emissions may be far higher than estimated, as ...

This month, we covered a long-term analysis suggesting that landfill methane emissions may be far higher than estimated, as well as new research on unexpected trends in U.S. extreme rainfall. Here are ...

The new initiative at Columbia’s Climate School is designed to strengthen university-wide collaboration on issues spanning ...

Panelists highlighted environmental justice, local partnerships, New York’s climate laws and the need for equitable solutions ...

Josie Brooks reflects on an exhibit at Maine’s Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, which explores Inuit food traditions, hunting, ...

Smoke from Canadian Wildfires over New York City in June 2023. Credit: Newell Reinvention via Commons Compounding effects can be very powerful. The damage from one event can be catalyzed or amplified ...

Methane is an especially potent greenhouse gas, causing much more warming than carbon dioxide on a unit-for-unit basis—and a new, uniquely long-term study of emissions at a New Jersey landfill ...

In March 2026, Hawaii was battered by the most severe flooding it had seen since 2004. The intense storms were driven by a series of “Kona lows”—winter storm systems that draw warm, moisture-laden air ...

Eastern Africa’s Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of volcanic activity caused by shifting tectonic plates. Now researchers have found ...

Even as global warming causes sea levels to rise worldwide, sea levels around Greenland will likely drop, according to a new paper in Nature Communications. “The Greenland coastline is going to ...

Even the most stubborn optimist would concede that 2025 was a tough year for climate action. In the U.S., national climate goals were weakened or eliminated; greenhouse gas emission limits repealed; ...

It was barely past dawn when Bruce Reingold pushed through industrial plastic flaps and slid open the insulated door that led into a massive refrigerated warehouse. Inside, people hustled in every ...