Environment

How does astronomical summer differ from meteorological summer? And how is climate change affecting how long summer lasts?

The president of the Chicago Teachers Union explains how climate change became a pillar of the union’s contract demands

Places beset by heat waves should receive FEMA disaster funds just as those hit by hurricanes or flooding do, labor unions, green groups and public health advocates argue in a new petition

The face of summer is transforming, as people today face more frequent, longer-lasting and hotter heat waves than they did several decades ago

The simplicity of the recycling symbol belies its complicated role in corporate America’s quest to sell ever more plastic

Employees are working remotely, and office buildings are standing empty, inspiring some cities to work through the challenges of converting these structures into new apartments

A heat dome is sending temperatures soaring across the U.S. Midwest and East

Australian conservationists introduced juvenile cane toads ahead of invasions to help prepare native monitor lizards

The first two years of Russia’s war in Ukraine have produced 175 million tons of carbon dioxide

Massive blobs of sargassum seaweed are taking over Caribbean beaches. The seaweed explosion is fueled by pollution washing into the ocean from rivers in the Americas and Africa

Researchers are investigating how an iron infusion from glacial meltwater might change Antarctica’s seas and the climate.

Historian and ecologist Laura J. Martin rediscovers the female scientists who established ecological restoration in her book Wild by Design