Foreword: Climate change and the uses of history / by Paul S. Sutter -- Introduction: Making climate change history -- Part 1. The scientific "prehistory" of global warming. "General remarks on the ...

For years, climate policy has been built around the idea that humanity still had a narrow window to keep global warming within a relatively “safe” range. Now a wave of new research suggests that ...

The opposing voices in America's first great debate about global warming was between Thomas Jefferson and Noah Webster in 1799. Bettmann / Corbis; The Granger Collection, New York As the tumultuous ...

Despite rapid progress in clean energy and electric vehicles, the world is still warming faster than ever. The good news is that we already have powerful ways to reduce the warming rate – if ...

Megacities flooded by surging seas. Mountains bare of the glaciers that once perched on their craggy peaks. Ice sheets crumbling into the ocean. The seafloor carpeted in ghostly skeletons of dead ...