Climate Change

As climate change leads to record rainfalls, the city’s 120-year-old subway system is more vulnerable to flooding than ever. A flooded floor is blocked off in the 42nd Street Times Square subway station during a rain storm in New York. (Jeenah Moon / Getty) Only two months before Zohran Mamdani…

With an icy white sheet still blanketing much of the Eastern United States after an intense storm this week, it’s hard to imagine a future with less snow at this time of year.  But over time, climate change has decreased snowpack by as much as 20 percent per decade in…

Forest minister Ganesh Ram Singhkhuntia speaks at the DFO conference in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday Bhubaneswar: Forest minister Ganesh Ram Singhkhuntia on Tuesday expressed deep concern over the increasing incidents of forest fires in the state over the past few years. Speaking at the DFOs conference he asked forest officials in…

Solar geoengineering could save the ice sheets – but stopping it could be catastrophic Martin Zwick/REDA/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Solar geoengineering could be even more costly than unabated global warming if it is cut off suddenly, leading to a “termination shock” of rapidly rebounding temperatures. As the rate…

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This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine. “Observing Greenland from a helicopter,” one scientist wrote last year, “the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I thought we were skimming low over the waves of a fjord, before ……

Mohamed El‑Sebaei, former deputy head of the Senate’s Agriculture and Irrigation Committee, said updating Egypt’s Agriculture Law is no longer optional but an urgent necessity imposed by current challenges. Speaking during a workshop reviewing the legislative impact assessment of Agriculture Law No. 53 of 1966 and its amendments, El-Sebaei said…

Global supply chains are systematically offshoring the physiological burden of climate change. To manage transboundary risks, regulators rigorously track indirect greenhouse gas emissions across a company’s value chain (1), but they overlook the human cost of heatrelated stress. To protect workers globally, trade and labor regulators in importing countries should…

Skip to content From 5–10 January, 2026, south-eastern Australia experienced its most severe heatwave since 2019–20. Temperatures exceeded 40°C in major cities including Melbourne and Sydney, with even hotter conditions across regional Victoria and New South Wales. Extreme heat affected large parts of Australia, including Western Australia, South Australia and…

Environment / January 22, 2026 Why do many news outlets ignore the connections between climate change and the struggle for democracy? A new solar park and battery storage system goes online in Saxony-Anhalt in Germany in November 2025. (Jan Woitas / picture alliance via Getty Images) “Protecting the climate and…