Search

Byline: Justin Gillis and Hal Harvey Three months after taking office as America's 46th president, Joe Biden made a solemn pledge to the world: He declared that the United States, [...]

Byline: Justin Gillis The jawboning has been going on for nearly a third of a century. It started back in 1992. Delegates from around the world - including a hesitant [...]

Byline: Justin Gillis In Oregon, some residents are begging electric companies to shut off their power in high winds to prevent the lines from sparking dangerous fires. Power companies that [...]

Byline: Justin Gillis and Heather Thompson With people hunkered down at home, cities should act quickly to find a better balance between cars and pedestrians and cyclists. Since cities came [...]

Byline: Justin Gillis The most urgent imperative now is to turn our fear and frustration into votes. SAN FRANCISCO - Now we suffer the consequences. In Northern California, power was [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS and HAL HARVEY SAN FRANCISCO -- At long last, a handful of political leaders are starting to set goals on greenhouse emissions that are consistent with the [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS SAN FRANCISCO -- This is a message, and a plea, for Gov. Jerry Brown of California. Please sign the bill. This is also a message for his [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS and HAL HARVEY Correction Appended SAN FRANCISCO -- We might be living through a new age of miracles. Last month, Los Angeles decided against adding lanes to [...]

Byline: DAMIEN CAVE and JUSTIN GILLIS Correction Appended ON THE GREAT BARRIER REEF, off Australia -- After a plunge beneath the crystal-clear water to inspect a coral reef, Neal Cantin [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS BUCK MEADOWS, Calif. -- With long strides, Chad T. Hanson plunged into a burned-out forest, his boots kicking up powdery ash. Blackened, lifeless trees stretched toward an [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS and JONATHAN CORUM McMURDO STATION, Antarctica -- The American research station on the edge of this frozen continent may look like a mining camp in the wilderness, [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS CAPE GRIM, Tasmania -- On the best days, the wind howling across this rugged promontory has not touched land for thousands of miles, and the arriving air [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS Global warming caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases is having clear effects in the physical world: more heat waves, heavier rainstorms and higher sea levels, to [...]

Byline: DAMIEN CAVE and JUSTIN GILLIS SYDNEY, Australia -- The Great Barrier Reef in Australia has long been one of the world's most magnificent natural wonders, so enormous it can [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS and JOHN SCHWARTZ Marking another milestone for a changing planet, scientists reported on Wednesday that the Earth reached its highest temperature on record in 2016 -- trouncing [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS With Donald J. Trump about to take control of the White House, it would seem a dark time for the renewable energy industry. After all, Mr. Trump [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS URBANA, Ill. -- A decade ago, agricultural scientists at the University of Illinois suggested a bold approach to improve the food supply: tinker with photosynthesis, the chemical [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS Correction Appended The helicopter hovered 30 feet above a fjord in Greenland, a thrumming red speck of human ingenuity in a vast wilderness of rock and ice. [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS NORFOLK, Va. -- Huge vertical rulers are sprouting beside low spots in the streets here, so people can judge if the tidal floods that increasingly inundate their [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS BLOCK ISLAND, R.I. -- The towering machines stand a few miles from shore, in a precise line across the seafloor, as rigid in the ocean breeze as [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS and HENRY FOUNTAIN Scientists have been warning for decades that climate change is a threat to the immense tracts of forest that ring the Northern Hemisphere, with [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS and CORAL DAVENPORT An airport hangar outside Paris shook with cheers, toasts and foot-stomping in December as diplomats ushered a landmark climate agreement into existence. On Friday [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS and CORAL DAVENPORT An airport hangar outside Paris shook with cheers, toasts and foot-stomping in December as diplomats ushered a landmark climate agreement into existence. On Friday, [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS For half a century, climate scientists have seen the West Antarctic ice sheet, a remnant of the last ice age, as a sword of Damocles hanging over [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS For half a century, climate scientists have seen the West Antarctic ice sheet, a remnant of the last ice age, as a sword of Damocles hanging over [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS The nations of the world agreed years ago to try to limit global warming to a level they hoped would prove somewhat tolerable. But leading climate scientists [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS The nations of the world agreed years ago to try to limit global warming to a level they hoped would prove somewhat tolerable. But leading climate scientists [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS The worsening of tidal flooding in American coastal communities is largely a consequence of greenhouse gases from human activity, and the problem will grow far worse in [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS The ocean is rising faster than at any point in the last 28 centuries and human emissions of greenhouse gases are primarily responsible, scientists reported on Monday. [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS The global public health emergency involving deformed babies emerged in 2015, the hottest year in the historical record, with an outbreak in Brazil of a disease transmitted [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS The global public health emergency involving deformed babies emerged in 2015, the hottest year in the historical record, with an outbreak in Brazil of a disease transmitted [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS Scientists have reported that 2015 was the hottest year in the historical record by far, breaking a mark set only the year before - a burst of [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS Scientists reported Wednesday that 2015 was the hottest year in recorded history by far, breaking a record set only the year before - a burst of heat [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS LE BOURGET, France -- After the stomping and cheering died down, and the hugs and toasts ended, a question hung in the air as the climate conference [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS LE BOURGET, France -- The climate deal being negotiated here is meant to begin a transformation of the world's energy systems, but it has another goal that [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS LE BOURGET, France -- The climate deal being negotiated here is meant to begin a transformation of the world's energy systems, but it has another goal that [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS and CHRIS BUCKLEY LE BOURGET, France -- Industrial emissions of greenhouse gases rose only slightly in 2014 and appear to be on track to decline in 2015, [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS and CHRIS BUCKLEY LE BOURGET, France -- Industrial emissions of greenhouse gases rose only slightly in 2014 and appear to be on track to decline in 2015, [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS PARIS -- Some of the world's top business leaders on Sunday endorsed a highly ambitious target for combating climate change, urging politicians to commit to eliminating greenhouse [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS The issue can be overwhelming. The science is complicated. Predictions about the fate of the planet carry endless caveats and asterisks. We get it. And so, with [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS The pledges that countries have signaled they will make in Paris over the next two weeks to cut emissions will inevitably fall short of what is needed [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS After two decades of talks that failed to slow the relentless pace of global warming, negotiators from almost 200 countries are widely expected to sign a deal [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS and CLIFFORD KRAUSS The New York attorney general has begun an investigation of Exxon Mobil to determine whether the company lied to the public about the risks [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS Global temperatures are running far above last year's record-setting level, all but guaranteeing that 2015 will be the hottest year in the historical record - and undermining [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS One year after 2014 set a record as the hottest year in the historical record, 2015 is on track to beat it by a substantial margin, possibly [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS and SOMINI SENGUPTA The pledges that countries are making to battle climate change would still allow the world to heat up by more than 6 degrees Fahrenheit, [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS and NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Some of the world's most prominent companies were expected to set a long-term target of powering their operations entirely with renewable energy, the [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS Global warming caused by human emissions has most likely intensified the drought in California 15 percent to 20 percent, scientists have said, warning that future dry spells [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS Global warming caused by human emissions has most likely intensified the drought in California by roughly 15 to 20 percent, scientists said Thursday, warning that future dry [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GILLIS For an earnest young Christian named Ben Lowe, revelation came on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in Africa. A relentless warming of the lake was reducing the [...]