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We need use land to help soak up carbon emissions Nunes Ribeiro/EyeEm/Getty A special UN report on climate change and land use warns that a massive expansion of bioenergy would reduce biodiversity, cause desertification and water scarcity, and push up food …

In what feels like its becoming a regular ritual in self-flagellation, scientists have released a new special report documenting the perilous state of our planet. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report focuses on how humans have tr…

To tackle climate change, we’ll need to do more than eliminate emissions from power plants and cars. Humans now sprawl over more than 70% of the planet’s land surface (not counting the places that are still covered in ice). And what we do with land now—from h…

Fifty miles due north of Venezuela and 30 miles east of Curaçao is the uplifted coral reef island of Bonaire. Locals rightfully boast, of their natural treasures, including pink flamingos, iguanas on desert flatlands, a sea turtle nursery, large schools of ma…

Day two centered on the coding and preparation for the pitch, which occurred at the end of the day.  We do discuss what we want to do for the world and how to save it, but we dont usually pitch like this, says Merelis Peralta, a Code Next student, whose…

Data from 2016 pegs it as the hottest year since recording began way back in 1880. Carbon dioxide levels continue to sit at historical highs, and last year the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that humanity has just 12 years to limit warmin…

A staggering 217 billion tons (197 billion metric tons) of meltwater flowed off of Greenland's ice sheet into the Atlantic Ocean this July. The worst day of melting was July 31, when 11 billion tons (10 billion metric tons) of melted ice poured into the ocean…

Iceland is home to more than 400 glaciers, but that number no longer includes Okjökull, a glacier that scientists say was "killed" by climate change. One hundred years ago, the glacier covered 15 square kilometers (5.8 square miles) of Ok Mountain, a shield v…

Sometimes the headline says it all. This is one of those cases, folks. Weve never recorded a hotter month on Earth than the one we just lived through, according to preliminary data kept by the European Unions Copernicus Climate Change Program. Heat records f…

“In just one day,” she told me, “it burned everything away.” Nina Wells, a retired Environmental Specialist with the New Mexico Environment Department Surface Water Quality Bureau, has over 20 years of experience coping with fires and drought. She was descri…