In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at what you can do about climate change using individual, ...

The planet is currently emitting 9 gigatons of carbon each year. With experts warning that the global climate crisis is becoming more and more dire, scientists and environmental activists say they are ...

Abby Rafeek, a 14-year-old high school student from Gardena, California, says decision-makers aren’t doing enough to address climate change. “I think if we figure out how to live on Mars and explore ...

At most places Melissa Valliant goes when dining out, she carries in her backpack a set of reusable flatware — prepared to refuse the disposable utensils she says are part of the plastic pollution ...

The compounding effects of climate change are changing the ways schools operate, as they cancel classes on days with extreme heat or when wildfire smoke is clouding the air and contend with students’ ...

Ahead of the Climate Forward conference on Sept. 24, Times readers sent us their most urgent questions about climate change.

Activists are hoping to recreate the magic of 1970’s Earth Day — at a moment when the movement’s future is cloudier than ever ...

Ty Ferguson receives funding from the Medical Research Future Fund and the National Health and Medical Research Council Carol Maher receives funding from the Medical Research Future Fund, the National ...

Back in 1990, when Sarah Barger Ranney was 10, she saw a newspaper survey asking: “Kids, 12-16: Tell us your future.” One of the questions was “By the time you’re 40, what do you think will be the ...

If a 60-mile-wide (100-kilometer-wide) asteroid slammed into Earth tomorrow, it would render the planet inhospitable to nearly all life forms, save for the hardiest extremophiles. This mass extinction ...

Consumer pocketbooks are taking the heat. Climate change is no longer a theoretical issue that will happen at some distant point in the future, like 2050 or 2100. Already, unprecedented climate change ...