Antarctica sits on a hotbed of methane gas. The cracks erupting in its seafloor are causing it to burst out and rise to the ...

In the Arctic tundra of Alaska, climate change is forcing an Alaska Native village to relocate. Rising temperatures are melting the underground permafrost. The melted ice then mixes with the soil, ...

Methane explosions may be forming craters in the northern tundra of Russia — and that's deeply alarming to climatologists.

The latest study finds that emissions of the potent greenhouse gas might be higher than previously estimated. Warming in the Arctic is intensifying methane emissions, contributing to a vicious ...

Switzerland is racing to rebuild Blatten, which was crushed by a glacier. It’s a sign of the economic and emotional costs of a warming Europe.

Earth's systems are nearing tipping points that could plunge the planet into a "hothouse" regime — but there's still time to ...

The Arctic is heating up particularly fast as a result of global warming—with serious consequences. The widespread permafrost in this region, where soils currently store twice as much carbon as the ...

In the fight against climate change, the focus is usually on carbon dioxide, or CO 2 — and for good reason. It’s a greenhouse gas that remains in the atmosphere for years, trapping in heat for ...

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Mr. Pope is a clean energy policy adviser to several foundations and was the executive director of the Sierra Club from 1992 to 2010. In my 50 years in the environmental movement, the decision I most ...