Umair Irfan
Former correspondent
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1.5 degrees Celsius of warming will be much worse than the 1 degree Celsius we’re experiencing now.
Prize winners William Nordhaus and Paul Romer studied long-term economic growth. Nordhaus calculated the impacts of climate change.
A UN panel of scientists says every bit of warming matters, and we’re almost out of time to keep it in check.
The IPCC says that even the most optimistic scenario for climate change is dire.
Hint: Sexual assault hits close to home.
Rising temperatures increased the storm’s rainfall, and sea-level rise led to more flooded homes.
The 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to the pioneers of “directed evolution.”
A massive 18-foot tsunami has killed more than 1,200 in Indonesia, and the toll may still rise.
It’s just one of the worrisome changes that are poised to make America more dangerous for kids’ health.
A children’s health expert was forced out this week, and the EPA proposed eliminating its science adviser’s office.