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John Kerry understands the urgency of the moment better than anyone — and now has more power than ever to act

Democrats are already using the disaster to illustrate the need for new legislation while many Republicans have relied on old talking points

The language of diplomacy rarely allows for a true sense of emotion or urgency. But reading between the lines of the latest report commissioned by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)—the body representing the 197 member nations of the Paris Agreement to minimize a global average temperature rise this century—the message is…

The billionaire philanthropist on his new book, 'How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,' the Covid conspiracy theories about him, and why he doubts our ability to get a net-zero energy grid by 2035

Thirty days after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, we celebrate the United States’ re-entry into the Paris Agreement, an important victory for the country and the world. As mayors united in our commitment to address the climate crisis, we recognize this enormous opportunity to raise global climate ambition, and together, invest in a sustainable and equitable…

Creating a legal definition of "ecocide" would allow environmental destruction to be prosecuted in the International Criminal Court

For scientists, the havoc wreaked by the extreme winter weather that hit Texas in mid-February dropping several inches of snow and leaving millions without power did not come as a surprise. Ten years ago, in 2011, energy regulators warned the state’s electric-grid operators that they were ill-prepared for an unprecedented winter storm. And for decades…

On the ground from frozen, blacked-out Austin

Just because the United States has re-joined the Paris Agreement doesn’t mean that the world is on a path to a better climate future. The 2015 agreement, in which signatories pledged to collectively cap global warming at “well below” 2°C above pre-industrial levels, is only the first step. Member nations still have to adopt ambitious…

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author talks with Jeff Goodell about her new book "Under a White Sky," the trouble with climate solutions, and what it's like watching coral sex

The UN Food Systems envoy spoke to TIME about the future of farming and why eating insects will likely remain a fringe idea.

Biden on Wednesday rolled out a broad plan to address climate change, taking the radical position that a global apocalypse would be bad