In "Atlas of the New World," future scenarios are projected onto present environments and the people in areas highly vulnerable to the climate crisis. - Giulia Piermartiri and Edoardo Delille/Courtesy ...

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The action could make it more difficult for a future administration to rejoin the Paris climate accord, the agreement among ...

Many Australians will have been reading up recently on whether they are likely to be among the 1.5 million reported to be at risk of sea level rise or the 190% increase in heat-related deaths in ...

Global warming has been studied back to more than a million years ago, as it’s not a new discovery. However, since the industrial revolution, greenhouse gas emissions have been consistently increasing ...

In this excerpt from "Sink or Swim," author Susannah Fisher explores the future of human migration, and what that will look like based on the difficult choices we make in the coming years. When you ...

At first, few were worried about the rains around Taishitun, a scrabbly town in the mountains north of Beijing, in the last days of July. There had not been a flood there since 1890—and that was not a ...

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It takes a moment to fully grasp what you’re seeing in Edoardo Delille and Giulia Piermartiri’s photographs of the Maldives. In one picture, a sea turtle appears to swim beside a couple on a motorbike ...

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