We are by no means helpless in the face of climate change.

Lack of rain has reduced potato crop yields to a third of what they usually are.

Despite progress on many fronts, climate commentators and activists are increasingly owning up to their fears.

This man wants to prove a point about rising global carbon dioxide levels by locking himself inside this DIY greenhouse for the next three days.

Sugar maples rely on consistent snow cover to thrive, and climate change is threatening that.

Along with climate-killing CO2, there are a lot of people-killing pollutants. Perhaps we should change our message.

A new study suggests we look to the past for guidance on how to cope going forward.

With a warming climate, the remains of unlucky mountaineers are beginning to rise from the ice.

How can we be moving away from fossil fuels and spending billions on building pipes for them at the same time?

Lack of diversity makes grapes vulnerable to climate change.

It's time for some fareness.

Where have I seen this movie before?

Ever wonder what it would look like to be in the maw of a snow leopard? Wonder no more.

What's in a cricket's song? And how do they do it?

The most important pollinators on the planet are disappearing in areas where temperatures are getting hotter.

The Swedish activist is 'delighted' that the new-to-science species will bear her name.

George Monbiot wades into the meat-and-climate debate by explaining how 'ethically' raised meat is actually worse for the planet than those raised in confined spaces. It leaves omnivores in an awkward position.

Climate change has become an ethical issue in the eyes of the Danish Council for Ethics, which suggested last week that the government consider a tax on beef, and eventually all foods depending on climate impact.

This is a very big deal, but just the first of many more bigger and harder deals that we need.

Only in America are they hard to find. How does that happen?

Carbon dioxide continues as the main concern, but we ignore methane at our own risk

This is beyond climate denial, it's science denial

Progress is being made. But the climate keeps unravelling.

Not just for barbecues, some companies are switching over completely.

Common sense tells us that, following corn harvest, fragments of corn cobs, leaves, stalks, silk, and pollen may be blown by the wind or carried across the land

This $2 million project, funded mostly with private money, is billed as the most comprehensive look at the Chicago waterway system since the reversal of the Chicago River more than 100 years ago. This

Just what the Great Lakes needs, more aquatic invasives. We're worrying about Asian carp and now we have whales? Whales in the Great Lakes, on Lake Superior? Well, "whale burps" have been found

This was an actual test. But only a test. Like those emergency tones you hear on your TV when a storm is approaching. Officials in Ontario, Canada, think the possibility of a live Asian carp invasion via truck is real. People

Who says we have to choose between jobs and the environment? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is starting a sort of Public Works program for the Great Lakes --- prioritizing funding for restoration projects that put the

Bloody red shrimp are invasive, but yummy for some native Great Lakes fish. A first-time find by Canadian researchers.

Flame retardants build up in the DNA of Great Lakes fish. Not cool.

The availability and quality of fresh water to sustain a radically urbanizing world is unquestionably a core issue of our time and requires holistic environmental thinking at an unprecedented scale

It's been forty years since Nixon and Trudeau signed the original; it's time for an update.

Sometimes the best way to get an idea of the scale of something is to change the context.

Exfoliating body wash may make you clean, but it's making the lake water dirty.

This long, cold winter has created the most ice cover on the Great Lakes in 20 years—and with ice cover usually at its peak in mid-March, there's still time for records to be broken.

Well, at least the most iconic animal in the United States won't catch on fire too easily...

It led to a series of other agreements that protected and cleaned up the Great Lakes environment

Do international treaties mean anything when America needs fresh water?

As environmental awareness spreads, shoppers are making different choices.

In a new video, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot explain that we must use nature to fix our broken climate.

Delivered to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the group of 16 alleges that climate crisis inaction constitutes a violation of child rights.

Humans have never lived with the high CO2 atmospheric conditions of the last 60 years, according to a new study.

The autonomous robot allows scientists to more safely study polar enviroments and also collects valuable information on ice conditions for climate research.

Scientists will be able to easier monitor the population of penguins, thanks to a high-tech solar-powered remote camera setup.

Two steps forward, one step back for Japan. The rest of the world has moved on from whaling, why couldn't they do too?

After ten years of work, the Antarctic Heritage Trust has done an amazing job of restoring and preserving.

Another signs that the poles are warming fast.

Even a species that has benefited from temperature increases in the past may be hurt by excessive warming.

Plus a bounty of facts about these freewheeling islands of ice.