Pollution from more frequent floods and wildfires – exacerbated by the warming climate – is threatening human health and poses particular risks to the brain.

Warm autumn weather has produced dull leaf colors across the eastern US this year, but climate change isn’t the only way that humans have altered trees’ fall displays.

The Athens fires were a dangerous reflection of Atomist philosophies that see the world as exploitable, for sale and open to waste and abuse.

More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and that share is growing. Rapid climate change could make many cities unlivable in the coming decades without major investments to adapt.

Two forest researchers whose own communities were threatened by fires in 2021 explain how historic policies left forests at high risk of megafires.

The U.S. has learned that it cannot suppress its way to a healthy relationship with fire in the West. That strategy failed, even before climate change proved it to be no strategy at all.

When a disaster strikes, you may be stuck for days without power or safe running water. Or you might only have time to grab a bag and go.

When a disaster strikes, you may be stuck for days without power or safe running water. Or you might only have time to grab a bag and go.

When a disaster strikes, you may be stuck for days without power or safe running water. Or you might only have time to grab your a bag and go.

Know your local disaster risks and how those risks are changing, and be prepared.