Chris Mooney

An examination of 196 country reports to the United Nations reveals a giant gap between what nations declare their emissions to be versus the greenhouse gases they are sending into the atmosphere. The gap ranges from at least 8.5 billion to as high as 13.3 billion tons a year -- surpassing the annua…

A new study finds a massive, previously unknown contribution to climate change in the form of human conversion of peatlands.

'Uncertainty is not our friend': Scientists are still struggling to understand the sea level risks posed by Antarctica  The Washington Post

Countries are adopting very different strategies for how they take into account carbon pulled out of the air by their forests.

'Brat,' by Andrew McCarthy book review  The Washington Post

Even amid the pandemic, losses of vital forests in the tropics increased by 12 percent between 2019 and 2020, a satellite-based survey found.

Scientists see stronger evidence of slowing Atlantic Ocean circulation, an 'Achilles' heel' of the climate  The Washington Post

In a major new pandemic trend, people are turning to carbon dioxide monitoring devices to help assess ventilation quality and coronavirus transmission risk.

Two new papers reveal the growing toll that human-caused global warming is having on the planet’s ice.

The disease is more deadly for the old, but with U.S. deaths mounting, so is its toll among the young.

Emissions are already way down in China, the world’s largest yearly contributor to climate change.

The world has just over a decade to get climate change under control, U.N. scientists say  The Washington Post

We went through one of the most infamous — and narrow — straits of the Northwest Passage  The Washington Post

Ted Cruz invokes Galileo to defend climate skepticism — and historians aren't happy  The Washington Post