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Byline: Sarah Kaplan Planet-warming pollution in Earth's atmosphere last year hit the highest levels in human history, scientists announced Monday - a worrying indicator of the world's failure to curb [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan, Brady Dennis, Scott Dance ASHEVILLE, N.C. - King Sison has responded to natural disasters in Indonesia, Libya and Brazil. He's delivered clean water amid armed violence and [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly said that a new analysis published in the journal Nature suggests that long-term deaths from hurricanes account for 3 [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka, Sarah Kaplan Asheville, N.C., seemed like an ideal place to escape the worst effects of global warming. In recent years, media outlets and real estate agents named [...]

Every year on Aug. 20, meteorologists at Colorado State University ring a bell to signal the start of peak hurricane season - a weeks-long stretch when hot ocean temperatures tend [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan, Simon Ducroquet An ambitious effort to understand the Earth's climate over the past 485 million years has revealed a history of wild shifts and far hotter temperatures [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan Emissions of methane - a powerful greenhouse gas - are rising at the fastest rate in recorded history, scientists said Tuesday, defying global pledges to limit the [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan As floodwaters coursed through Texas and Taiwan, as mosquito-borne viruses spread across the Americas, as lethal heat struck down children on hikes and grandparents on pilgrimage, the [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan As he looked at the Atlantic Ocean through the condo unit's bedroom window, the sparkling blue water almost close enough to touch, Ed Morman knew this was [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan As global temperatures spiked to their highest levels in recorded history on Monday, ambulances were screaming through the streets of Tokyo, carrying scores of people who'd collapsed [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan Global temperatures hit the highest levels in recorded history on Sunday, according to preliminary data from Europe's top climate monitor - another worrying sign of how human-caused [...]

Byline: Lena H. Sun, Sarah Kaplan SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The curly-haired girl came to the emergency room with fever, aches and signs of dehydration, common indications of many [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan, Rachel Siegel No one in r/Costco - the Reddit group dedicated to the beloved bulk store - could get over it. The hefty, store-brand olive oil bottles [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan, Scott Dance Dozens of bodies were discovered in Delhi during a two-day stretch this week when even sundown brought no relief from sweltering heat and humidity. Tourists [...]

A ‘lavender ceiling’ is blocking LGBTQ+ people’s path toward corporate leadership and board directorships, Jane Griffith is the executive director of the LGBTQ+ Corporate Directors Association of Canada, and the managing partner of Griffith Group Executive Search. Sarah Kaplan is founding director of the [...]

Byline: JANE GRIFFITH, SARAH KAPLAN Jane Griffith is the executive director of the LGBTQ+ Corporate Directors Association of Canada, and the managing partner of Griffith Group Executive Search. Sarah Kaplan [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan For the first time, researchers have detected a significant dip in atmospheric levels of hydrochlorofluorocarbons - harmful gases that deplete the ozone layer and warm the planet. [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan The heat fell upon Maliâs capital like a thick, smothering blanket - chasing people from the streets, stifling them inside their homes. For nearly a week at [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan, Bonnie Jo Mount QAANAAQ, Greenland - Out on the ice, Toku Oshima often says, ǣthere is no time.ǥ No calendar but the migrations of sea creatures. No [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan The official history of the planet should not include a radical new chapter defined by human impacts, a key scientific panel has decided - ending, for now, [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan René van Westen watched in alarm as freshwater from a melting Arctic poured into the North Atlantic, diluting the normally dense and salty sea. The influx gradually [...]

Byline: Scott Dance, Sarah Kaplan John Kennedy watched in frustration Tuesday as floodwaters pulsed through the Santa Ana River, past systems the Orange County, Calif., water manager uses to capture [...]

Byline: Scott Dance, Sarah Kaplan and Veronica Penney The year 2023 was the hottest in recorded human history, Europe's top climate agency announced Tuesday, with blistering surface temperatures and torrid [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan As soon as Andrew Christ peered at the sample inside his microscope, he knew he had found something special. Bits of tiny twigs, moss and leaves were [...]

Byline: Andrew Jeong and Sarah Kaplan A lake in Canada serves as the best proof that humans have caused lasting and significant environmental changes to the planet since the mid-20th [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan A humble lake in a Canadian suburb may soon become the symbolic starting point for a radical new chapter in Earth's official history: the Anthropocene, or the [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan, Simon Ducroquet, Bonnie Jo Mount, Frank Hulley-Jones and Emily Wright MILTON, Ontario - Locals used to say that Crawford Lake was bottomless. Its waters ran deeper than [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan HUASCARÈüN NATIONAL PARK, Peru - The path to Pastoruri glacier is grueling. At more than 15,000 feet above sea level, the wind is fierce and the sun [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan East Africa's worst drought in at least 40 years, which has displaced more than a million people and pushed millions more to the brink of famine, would [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan The world is likely to pass a dangerous temperature threshold within the next 10 years, pushing the planet past the point of catastrophic warming - unless nations [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan Human activities have transformed the planet at a pace and scale unmatched in recorded history, causing irreversible damage to communities and ecosystems, according to one of the [...]