In the News Archive

‘Megadrought’ and ‘Aridification’ — Understanding the New Language of a Warming World The Revelator

Study: Southwest U.S. In Midst Of Megadrought Like No Other Nevada Public Radio

The Lab That Discovered Global Warming Has Good News and Bad News The New York Times

After the Coronavirus, the Climate Crisis Will Remain. What Have We Learned? KQED

Southwest Drought Rivals Those of Centuries Ago, Thanks to Climate Change The New York Times

Why Pollution Is Plummeting in Some Cities — But Not Others Nature

There’s No Good Reason to Hoard Anything, Especially Food Bloomberg

The Scientist Tackling the Ocean Food Chain Ozy

GOP Bill Will Seek to Commit Us to Planting 3.3 Billion Trees Annually The Hill

Second Hottest Year on Record Capped Warmest-Ever Decade Bloomberg

A Warning from Ancient Tree Rings: The Americas are Prone to Catastrophic, Simultaneous Droughts Science

California, Climate Change and the Trauma of the Last Decade Los Angeles Times

Fires, Floods and Free Parking: California’s Unending Fight Against Climate Change The Washington Post

In New York Lab, Centuries-old Corals Hold Clues to Climate Shifts Reuters

The Real Reason California’s Wildfires are Getting Worse Teen Vogue

Climate Change is Driving California’s Wildfires. The Kincade Fire? Not So Much KQED

The Smoldering State The Atlantic

Ancient Soil from Secret Greenland Base Suggests Earth Could Lose a Lot of Ice Science

California Emerged From Drought and Is Still Catching Fire The New York Times

Climate Change Is Hitting the Insurance Industry Hard. Here’s How Swiss Re Is Adapting Fortune

The California Power Outages Show How Dire the Wildfire Crisis Has Gotten — 9 of the State’s 10 Biggest Fires Came in the Last 16 Years Business Insider

Caltech Nabs $750M Gift for Climate Research Education Dive

How to Help the Environment Ahead of the UN Climate Action Summit CBS News

Volcano-Stimulated Marine Photosynthesis Science

How Kīlauea’s Lava Birthed an Algal Bloom Visible from Space PBS Nova

This Year’s Fire season in California Could Be ‘Very Active’ The Washington Post

California’s Wildfires Are 500 Percent Larger Due to Climate Change The Atlantic

Mystery Stretch of the Pacific Ocean Is Not Warming like the Rest of the World’s Waters Newsweek

Spy-Satellite Images Reveal How Climate Change Is Rapidly Melting the Himalayan Glaciers The New Yorker

Some Compelling Reasons Not to Give Up on Solving Climate Change Vice

Going Fossil-Free May Be Cheaper Than You Think Columbia Business School

Inside the Megafire PBS

How Much Fuel Does A Green Spring Add To The Fire? Science Friday

Scientists Examine Seafloor in Antarctica CBS News

Climate Watch CBS News

Wallace Smith Broecker (1931-2019) Nature

Tree Rings Contain Secrets from the Forest Popular Science

Feeding 10 Billion People by 2050 in a Warming World Yale Climate Connections

Business and the Effects of Global Warming The Economist

How a 7th-grader’s Strike Against Climate Change Exploded into a Movement The Washington Post

Climate Science, Explained WNYC: Here's the Thing

Western Drought Ranks Among the Worst of the Last Millennium Scientific American

The Southwest May Be Deep Into a Climate-Changed Mega-Drought The Atlantic

What the Ocean Floor Can Tell Us About Climate Change Columbia Magazine

Ask a Scientist: How to Deal with a Climate Change Skeptic The New Yorker

Hönisch Receives 2018 Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Willi Dansgaard Award Eos

See How a Warmer World Primed California for Large Fires National Geographic

The Simple Reason That Humans Can’t Control Wildfires The Atlantic

The Science Behind California’s Wildfires PBS News Hour

‘The Whole World Was on Fire’: Infernos Choke California, Piling On the Grief The New York Times

Why Does California Have So Many Wildfires? The New York Times

If the Greenland ice sheet melts, what happens to New York City? This reporter went to find out. PRI's The World

The Quest to Predict—and Stop—the Spread of Wildfires BBC

Sunny Southern California Burns, Missing its Coastal Clouds Earth Magazine

Hurricane Florence, ‘Just a Cat 1,’ Reveals Flaw with Saffir-Simpson Scale Washington Post

As Hurricane Florence Intensifies, So Do Challenges Forecasting Its Path Philadelphia Inquirer

Climate Change Is Helping Crank up the Temperatures of California’s Heat Waves The Los Angeles Times

Why the Wildfires of 2018 Have Been So Ferocious The Atlantic

California Heat Wave, Wildfires Rage On: No Relief in Sight Newsweek

Are Europe’s Historic Fires Caused By Climate Change? National Geographic

Changing Climate Pushes Arid West Eastward, Impacting Farming NPR

Deadly Wildfires Rage Around the World Think Progress

The Antarctica Series The New York Times

Sea Levels Must Rise to the Top of the Agenda in Washington The Hill

A Giant Iceberg Parked Offshore. It’s Stunning, but Villagers Hit the Road. The New York Times

Hot Summer Nights Are Getting Hotter. Here’s Why It’s a Health and Wildfire Risk. Inside Climate News

Pioneering Western Water Management Strategies Science Friday

Weatherwatch: California’s Clearer Skies Raise Fire Risk The Guardian

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Seems to Be Good at Collapsing National Geographic

Southern California Is Losing Its Clouds and That’s Bad News For Fire Season Earther

Professor Says Window to Prevent Dangerous Impacts from Climate Change Closing Fast Insurance Journal

How Scientists Use Arctic Trees to Map Climate Change Arctic Today

How Oman’s Rocks Could Help Save the Planet The New York Times

A Nation Divided: Arid/Humid Climate Boundary in U.S. Creeps Eastward Scientific American

The Arid Us Midwest Just Crept 140 Miles East Thanks to Climate Change Quartz

Atlantic Circulation Weakening: No, We’re Not All Gonna Die Futurism

100th Meridian, Which Divides the Arid West From the More Humid East, May Be Shifting Because of Climate Change The Weather Channel

How a Small Start-up Firm Wants to Revitalize Climate Change Research Washington Post

Here’s How Climate Change Could Make Air Travel Even Worse Popular Mechanics

Ocean Scientists Work to Forecast Huge Plankton Blooms in Arabian Sea Nature

‘Doomsday Vault’ Protects Earth’s Food Supply—Here’s How National Geographic

The government is nearly done with a major report on climate change. Trump isn’t going to like it. The Washington Post

The North Pole Just Got an Extreme Heat Wave for the 3rd Winter in a Row Vox

Climate Change Spells Turbulent Times Ahead for Air Travel The Guardian

We Can Pull CO2 from Air, But It’s No Silver Bullet for Climate Change, Scientists Warn Inside Climate News

Here Are All the Ways Climate Change Will Ruin Your Flight Popular Science

Robin Bell Doesn’t Think Science Should Be Political The New York Times

The Oceans Have Never Been Hotter Than They Are Now Vice

Dividing Line: The Past, Present and Future of the 100th Meridian Earth

River Floods Will Threaten Tens of Millions in Next 25 Years Scientific American

A Radical New Scheme to Prevent Catastrophic Sea-Level Rise The Atlantic

Boston plans for climate change’s promise of more storms. Will it be enough? PBS News Hour

Wildfires to Hurricanes, 2017’s Year of Disasters Carried Climate Warnings Inside Climate News

Climate Change Mashup Star Talk Radio

ClimateWatch: Trump Tweet Mocks Climate Change CBS News

Fish, Farm, or Fight Hakai Magazine

Climate Change Is Going to Drive Thousands of Refugees to Cooler Countries Futurism

It’s Not the Heat. It’s the Humidity. Slate

Humidity Will Make Some Parts of the World Unlivable in 50 Years Vice

In 2017, Politics Overshadowed Science and Scientists Fought Back PBS News Hour

Climate Change is Part of California’s Perfect Recipe for Intense Wildfire PBS News

How Smoke from California’s Fires is Harming the Most Vulnerable PBS News

The Vanishing Groves Aeon

What’s Sparking the Devastating California Wildfires ABC News

In a Warming California, a Future of More Fire The New York Times

As ‘Epic Winds’ Drive California Fires, Climate Change Fuels the Risk Inside Climate News

How Climate Change Fuels Wildfires in California Pacific Standard

We Can’t Talk About the Los Angeles Fires Without Talking About Climate Change Mother Jones

Are We an Invasive Species? Plus, Other Burning Climate Questions The New York Times

4 Questions on the California Fires and Climate Change Inside Climate News

As Greenland Melts, Where’s the Water Going? The New York Times

Humanity’s fight against climate change is failing. One technology can change that. Quartz

Could Tweaking The Atmosphere Help Us Fight Climate Change? Science Friday

Can Carbon-Dioxide Removal Save the World? The New Yorker

Expedition Braves Arctic Perils for Climate Science National Geographic

Greenland Melt Speeds East Coast Sea-Level Rise NASA Vital Signs

Science Confirms Hurricane Harvey Was Indeed ‘Biblical’ Bloomberg

How Warmer Winters Affect Our Planet PBS

The Big Data of Ice, Rocks, Soils, and Sediments Places

NASA Satellites Can Track Ozone Pollution From Space, Agency Says International Business Times

Breathing Fire Climate Central

The Climate Risks We Face The New York Times

Extreme Climate-linked Events are Virtually Certain to Increase, According to Exhaustive Government Report PBS News Hour

Tell Me Something I Don’t Know: Robin Bell Freakonomics Radio

Lofty Stones Reveal Ancient Storm Secrets Nature

Ancient Storms Could Have Hurled Huge Boulders, Scientists Say – Raising New Fears of Rising Seas The Washington Post

Volcanic Eruptions May Be Rapidly Melting Arctic Ice Sheets, Study Says The Weather Channel

Hurricane season 2017: what the hell just happened? Vox

5 Years After Sandy: Are NYC’s Preparations Amid Climate Change Enough? NBC News

Volcano Eruptions Could Melt Ice Sheets Rapidly 1,000 Miles Away International Business Times

Did Climate Change Fuel California’s Devastating Fires? Probably. MIT Tech Review

California’s Wildfires Have Become Bigger, Deadlier, and More Costly. Here’s Why. Time

NASA Satellite Reveals Source of El Niño-Fueled Carbon Dioxide Spike Live Science

Deadly Fires Show How Northern State is Becoming More Like Fiire-prone South San Francisco Chronicle

As Deadly Wildfires Rage in California, a Look at How Global Warming Fuels Decades of Forest Fires Democracy Now

Here’s Why Wildfires Will Only Get Much, Much Worse Mother Jones

Humans First Left Africa Because Of Climate Change Huffington Post

Discovering Rivers and Lakes in Frozen Antarctica Academic Minute

How Will Climate Change Impact Future Floods and Flood Insurance? PBS News Hour

Scientific models saved lives from Harvey and Irma. They can from climate change too. The Guardian

Harvey, Irma, and the Economic Risks of Doing Nothing Huffington Post

From Heat Waves to Hurricanes: What We Know About Extreme Weather and Climate Change The New York Times

Fires, Heat Waves, and Hurricanes: Why This Summer’s Extreme Weather is Here to Stay The Verge

Climate Scientists Cannot Predict How Severe Future Hurricanes Will Be—For Now Newsweek

Irma, Harvey and Climate Change: It’s Complicated The Weather Channel

Has Climate Change Intensified 2017’s Western Wildfires? The Atlantic

What You Need to Know About Hurricane Irma Vice News

Global Warming’s Role in Hurricane Harvey WNYC

Did Climate Change Make Recent Extreme Storms Worse? PBS News Hour

Katrina. Sandy. Harvey. The debate over climate and hurricanes is getting louder and louder. Washington Post

Hurricane Harvey is Another Reason Why We Can’t Be Complacent About Climate Change Any Longer Mic

Why Harvey is Stuck Near Texas Bloomberg

Hurricane Harvey is Far From Over Popular Science

Global Warming Didn’t Cause Hurricane Harvey. Here’s What Did. Fortune

Study Finds the Southern Pine Beetle May be Chewing North WNYC

Harvey Raises Red Flags on Infrastructure, Climate Planning Mashable

Tree-Eating Beetles Set to March Northward as Winters Warm The New York Times

Tree-Killing Beetles Spread into Northern U.S. Forests as Temperatures Rise InsideClimate News

How Reducing U.S. Air Pollution Can Help Feed Africa Creed Politico

California Scientists Push to Create Massive Climate-research Programme Nature

Global Warming Is Fueling Arizona’s Monstrous Monsoons Climate Central

We know Vikings as infamous raiders—was that merely a response to climate change? Ars Technica

Despite Summer Snow, Greenland Is Still Melting Climate Central

Even Tiny Changes in Earth’s Orbit Would Yield Global Catastrophe The New York Times

Climate Change Might Prevent Airlines from Flying Full Planes The Economist

It’s getting hot in here: New York tops the list of sweatiest cities in the U.S. USA Today

How a Warming Climate Will Trouble Air Travel The New York Times

Thanks, Climate Change: Heat Waves Will Keep on Grounding Planes Wired

Heat Waves Will Keep More Airplanes on the Ground in Coming Years, New Research Suggests Business Insider

The Man Who Coined the Term ‘Global Warming’ on the Worst-Case Scenario for Planet Earth New York Magazine

The Uninhabitable Earth New York Magazine

Massive Antarctica Iceberg Hanging on by a 3-mile Thread to Larsen C Shelf USA Today

Rising temperatures could bump you from your flight. Thanks climate change. Washington Post

Scientists Grapple With the Mysteries of Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet Arctic Deeply

Just Don’t Call it ‘Climate Change’ Business Insider

Scientists Just Proved That Wildfires Dumped a Huge Amount of Soot Atop Greenland’s Ice Sheet Washington Post

Climate Change Altering Droughts, Impacts Across U.S. Climate Central

Too Hot to Fly? Climate Change May Take a Toll on Air Travel The New York Times

Deep Beneath the Dead Sea, a Harbinger of Future Drought Columbia Magazine

Scientists Have Documented a Massive Melt Event on the Surface of Antarctica Washington Post

India’s Punishing Heat Waves More Deadly With Warming Climate Central

Burying the Sky: Turning Carbon Dioxide into Rock Earth Magazine

Bon Voyage to the Paris Accord Metro Focus

Trump Says United States Will Withdraw from Paris Climate Accord Eos

Experts Offer Optimism that Trump Pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement Won’t Doom the Planet Business Insider

Warming Could Push Earth’s Rains Northward Climate Central

Elephant Poaching is Still a Huge Problem, New Evidence Shows Columbia Magazine

Budget Guts U.S. Carbon Capture, Storage Research Climate Central

Antarctica’s Disintegration Could Actually Lead to a Hollywood Disaster Scenario Motherboard

Fast-Growing Moss is Turning Antarctica Green National Geographic

Antarctic Dispatches The New York Times

Warmer Temperatures Drying the Rio Grande Climate Central

How Would Just 2 Degrees of Warming Change the Planet? Live Science

Antarctica Is Covered With More Meltwater Than Thought National Geographic

Antarctic Scientists Go Chasing Waterfalls The Atlantic

Research on in Oman to Reverse Climate Change Times of Oman

Scientists: Get Used to Wildfires in a Warming World Climate Central

Oman’s Mountains May Hold Clues for Reversing Climate Change ABC News

Surfers Riding a Wave of Environmental Activism Newsweek

Trump Won’t Save Us From Climate Change. Maybe Surfers Will. Huffington Post

Arabian Sea Algae is Beautiful, But It Spells Disaster for Our Planet Mic

It’s the Golden Age of Climate Denial Esquire

The Culprit In Rising Western U.S. Smog Levels: Asia NPR

What Are Negative Emissions & Why Do We Need Them? Huffington Post

A Climate Science Refresher WNYC

Humans Blamed for Starting Most Wildfires in the U.S. Climate Central

California’s Wet Weather Has Some Believing the Drought is Over ABC News

How Some Trees Can Defend Themselves Against Fire The Boston Globe

How the New Climate Denial Is Like the Old Climate Denial The Atlantic

Do Not Buy the House Science Committee’s Claim That Scientists Faked Data Popular Science

15,000 Somali Refugees Who Had Planned To Resettle In The U.S. Are Stranded Huffington Post

Obama Will Continue to Oversee Climate Change (Kind Of) Through Antarctica’s Station Obama Yahoo

How Wealthy Private Investors Might Save Climate Research Fast Company

Huge Federal Climate Enterprise At Stake As Trump Team Moves In NPR

Thanks, Station Obama Salon

Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year New York Times

Earth’s Temperature Rises, Again WNYC

Barack Obama Has Been Immortalized By Scientists Climate Central

Beginning of the End of CA Drought, But What’s Next? Climate Central

Lamont-Doherty Professor to Head Science Organization The Journal News

Climate change: 2016 Will Break Heat Record The Mercury News

California Forests Failing to Regrow After Intense Wildfires Inside Climate News

Where Does Oil Come From? NBC News

Greenland: Climate Change Could Lead to Unexpected Ice Melt Time

New Report Questions Ice in Greenland U.S. News

Most of Greenland Melted In the Recent Past, Study Finds Gizmodo

Greenland Once Lost Nearly All Its Ice—and Could Again Nature

Extreme Tornado Outbreaks Are Becoming More Extreme Climate Central

How Big Droughts, Forest Fires Could be the New Normal in Appalachia PBS NewsHour

Planned Burns in Arizona, West Vital to Restoring Forests Arizona Star

How Much Longer Can Antarctica’s Hostile Ocean Delay Global Warming? Nature

How Did Climate and Humans Respond to Past Volcanic Eruptions? Eos

Climate and Homo Sapiens Migration During the Last Ice Age. The John Batchelor Show

This Antarctic Glacier is the Biggest Threat for Rising Sea Levels Washington Post

The Climate Questions the Next President Should Answer Climate Central

Climate Change Is Fueling America’s Wildfires, and It’ll Only Get Worse Huffington Post

A Trek to the Giant Mongolian Glacier That Holds the Secrets to Global Warming Pacific Standard

Like a Rolling Stone: A Talk With Peter Kelemen Columbia Daily Spectator

The West Is Burning, And Climate Change Is Partly To Blame FiveThirtyEight

Climate Change Has Been Making Western Forest Fires Worse for Decades, Study Says Washington Post

Climate Change Behind Surge in Western Wildfires Climate Central

Without Human-made Climate Change, U.S. Forest Fires Would Be Half the Size PBS NewsHour

Climate Change Blamed for Half of Increased Forest Fire Danger New York Times

Predicting Storm Intensity Remains a Big Challenge Scientific American

Hurricane Matthew Is Scary. Did We Help Make The Monster? Forbes

Hurricane Matthew’s Coastal Path Makes it Frightening, Experts Say Reuters

Peter de Menocal Named New Science Dean and Con Ed Professor Columbia News

Climate Change Is Here: Inside the Summer of Hell and High Water Rolling Stone

From Science to Service Science

Human migration: Climate and the peopling of the world Nature

California’s current drought may seem bad — but past versions have lasted hundreds of years Washington Post

New Method for Storing CO2 is Rock-solid Columbia Magazine

NOAA: Global warming increased odds for Louisiana downpour ABC News

Landfalling Typhoons Have Become More Intense Climate Central

Louisiana Floods Damage 60,000 Homes KQED Radio

Ocean Slime Spreading Quickly Across the Earth National Geographic

‘A very dangerous place to be’: Huge California blaze forces 82,000 evacuations Washington Post

Scientists Analyze Recent Extreme Weather Events in Relation to Climate Change PBS News Hour

What We Can Say About the Louisiana Floods and Climate Change Washington Post

Aerosols May Be Masking Trend in Stronger Hurricanes Climate Central

Who’s Killing the Elephants? Al Jazeera

The U.S. coast is in an unprecedented hurricane drought — why this is terrifying Washington Post

The Surf Organization Driving Ocean Health Research Vox Populi

The Definition of an Explorer The Low Down

Cyclones Set to Get Fiercer as World Warms Climate News Network

Where Are the Hurricanes? New York Times

Crippled Atlantic Currents Triggered Ice Age Climate Change Science

The Science Behind How These Geologists Are Turning Carbon Emissions Into Solid Rock Forbes

Columbia Launches New Center for Climate and Life Columbia Magazine

Climate Scientists Predict More Blazing Heat, Drought, Fires and Scores of Dead Trees in the West Washington Post

Dead Trees Adding to California Firefighters’ Battle Climate Central

Water Vapor Vs Carbon Dioxide: Which ‘Wins’ In Climate Warming? Forbes

The Weird Weather That Entrenched California’s Drought Climate Central

Iceland Carbon Capture Project Quickly Converts Carbon Dioxide Into Stone Smithsonian Magazine

Iceland Carbon Dioxide Storage Project Locks Away Gas, and Fast The New York Times

Evidence supports theory that humans evolved in grasslands Red Orbit

Climate Change Could Force Huge Migrations for People and Animals Living Near the Equator Washington Post

Is It The End of The World as We Know It? Huffington Post

Maureen Raymo Elected to National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences

Video: Peter deMenocal on Why Climate Matters Talks@Columbia

Fate of World’s Coasts Rests on Melting Ice Scientific American

What Is the Climate Innovation Gap? PBS SciTech Now

The Mad Dash to Figure Out the Fate of Peatlands Smithsonian Magazine

Surfers Are Helping Fund Climate Science Climate Central

This Is How Far Sea Level Could Rise Thanks to Climate Change BBC

Green Growth Nature

Columbia U. Center Aims to Tap Business for Climate Studies Chronicle of Philanthropy

Center for Climate & Life: Changing the Way We Do & Fund Science Nature

Greenland 60 Minutes

Mystery Beneath the Ice NOVA PBS

2015: The Hottest Year on Record Mashable

Above-Freezing North Pole Caps Year of Arctic Extremes VOA

In Drought-Battered Somaliland, Climate Change Is Deadly Serious Vice News

Why Prince Charles is Right to Link the Syrian War to Climate Change Fortune Magazine

Five Reasons We Need to Act Now on Climate Change National Geographic

Turning CO2 Into Rock: Podcast with Peter Kelemen How Do We Fix It?

New Center for Climate and Life to Bring Latest Science to Business and Finance Worlds Columbia News

Billions of People Depend on Water From Shrinking Snowpacks The New York Times

Ghosts of Oceans Past Science

6 Places Where Melting Snow Means Less Drinking Water National Geographic

What Do Trees Tell Us About Climate Change? Christian Science Monitor

El Niño Could Push CO2 Permanently Above 400 ppm Milestone Climate Central

2015 Likely to Be Hottest Year Ever Recorded The New York Times