When engineers and planners design roads, bridges and dams, they rely on hydrological models intended to protect ...

Inside dozens of bankers boxes, stacked high in a storage locker in New York City, Cynthia Rosenzweig has stashed the work of decades: Legal pads covered in blue-inked cursive with doodles in the ...

Ocean currents — undersea conveyor belts that help regulate Earth's climate and influence weather systems around the world — have been speeding up over the past two decades as the planet warms, ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated the need and importance of undertaking integrated, cross-sectoral assessments of climate change impacts to account for the indirect ...

Moving forward requires focus. Mashable's Social Good Series is dedicated to exploring pathways to a greater good, spotlighting issues that are essential to making the world a better place. Half a ...

From sea-level rise on the coastlines to drought and wildfire inland to warmer, wetter weather in the middle of the country, it is clear that the climate is changing, and that the trends will likely ...

Later this century, sometime toward my teenage son’s late middle age, climate change might torch 50 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. I’ll say that again. Sometime around 2070–2090, ...

Mr. Bookstaber is the author of “A Demon of Our Own Design,” which in 2007 warned of the coming financial crisis. Our economy today has been described variously as “weird,” “really weird” and “very, ...