Climate

For a sweltering petrostate, a ‘carbon neutral’ World Cup is a challenge

By Claire Parker

An Australian mining magnate wants to save the planet with green hydrogen

Scientists thought carbon emissions had peaked. They’ve never been higher.

By Shannon Osaka

In a land of cold, the architecture is tested by heat

How British architecture has made homes vulnerable to extreme heat and cold

By Philip Kennicott, Simon Ducroquet, Frank Hulley-Jones and Aaron Steckelberg

On the edge of retreat

By Chris Mooney, Zoeann Murphy and Simon Ducroquet

Ancient DNA shows what Greenland may have looked like 2 million years ago

Introducing The Post’s expanded Climate coverage

By Sally Buzbee

Scientists thought carbon emissions had peaked. They’ve never been higher.

By Shannon Osaka

Democrats try to salvage Manchin’s side deal on energy projects

By Maxine Joselow

In an ancient reindeer forest, one woman has found a way to slow climate change

European officials object to Biden’s green subsidies as protectionist

By Emily Rauhala and Ellen Nakashima

Want to save the whales? Reconsider the lobster, some say.

By Dino Grandoni

How well do you know Biden’s environmental track record? Take our quiz.

How much do you know about Biden's environmental record? Take this quiz on what he's done so far.

By John Muyskens, Brady Dennis and Juliet Eilperin

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climate solutionsThe people and organizations tackling our biggest environmental challenges

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One man’s lonely quest to save the world’s corals draws a following

After working in obscurity for decades, Anuar Abdullah is emerging as an increasingly influential, somewhat unlikely expert on how to revive the world's coral reefs.

Giving ‘Mother Nature a little bit of a boost’ on the Great Barrier Reef

By Frances Vinall and Michael Robinson Chavez

How the Inflation Reduction Act might affect you — and change the U.S.

By Jeff Stein, Maxine Joselow and Rachel Roubein

Six steps the world can take to halt climate change

By Sarah Kaplan and Brady Dennis

How a four-day workweek could be better for the climate

By Allyson Chiu

Concert tours can strain the environment. Here's how some artists are cutting carbon emissions.

By Ta'Leah Van Sistine

A look at how the electric vehicle revolution is going

8 ways renters can make their homes greener

By Rachel Fairbank

The unique ways Filipinos are protecting their homes against floods

By Regine Cabato, William Neff and Hannah Dormido

Politics and Policy

Democrats try to salvage Manchin’s side deal on energy projects

A bill from Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) to overhaul the permitting process for energy infrastructure could be included in a defense policy measure.

By Maxine Joselow

How we can limit Earth's warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius — if we act fast

By Maxine Joselow and Vanessa Montalbano

With money on the table, states identify 120,000 leak-prone oil wells

By Maxine Joselow

Biden commits to honoring tribes by protecting public lands in Nevada

By Dan Michalski

Business of climate

Florida targets BlackRock for its climate and social policies

By Steven Mufson

Vermont’s dairy farms recede, giving way to shrimp, saffron and new ideas

By Laura Reiley and Zoeann Murphy

From nuclear power to bamboo: The climate solutions at COP27

By Pranshu Verma

Delta and other firms are struggling to meet sky-high climate pledges

By Steven Mufson

EV supply chains have a human rights problem. Can tech fix it?

2022 u.n. Climate Change conference

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COP27 leaves world on dangerous warming path despite historic climate fund

The final decision of the U.N. Climate Conference in Egypt made little progress on emissions-cutting measures that could avert worse disasters to come.

By Sarah Kaplan

COP27 highlights: In historic move, nations agree to pay to help vulnerable countries with climate disasters

By Sarah Kaplan, Evan Halper, Timothy Puko, Brady Dennis and Michael Birnbaum

What is COP27? What you need to know about the U.N. climate summit.

By Ellen Francis and Adela Suliman

At COP 27, an artist asks attendees to feel climate change — literally

By Kelsey Ables

Climate talks hit ‘breakdown’ over finance, fossil fuels as time dwindles

By Sarah Kaplan, Evan Halper and Timothy Puko

2,500 endangered Caspian seals found dead on Russian shores

By Bryan Pietsch

Want to save the whales? Reconsider the lobster, some say.

By Dino Grandoni

Lion cubs rescued from Ukraine find sanctuary in the United States

By Rachel Pannett

Why this mammal eats its own brain — and why it could matter for you

By Dino Grandoni

Nobody wanted to adopt the dog with one ear — until he started painting

Extreme weather

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What extreme heat does to the human body

Deadly heat waves have swept the globe, and the trends are prompting doomsday questions: Will parts of the world soon become too hot to live in?

By Ruby Mellen and William Neff

Humans have pushed the climate into ‘unprecedented’ territory, landmark U.N. report finds

By Brady Dennis and Sarah Kaplan

How tropical storms and hurricanes have hit U.S. shores with unparalleled frequency

By Jason Samenow, Kasha Patel, Hannah Dormido and Laris Karklis

In maps, photos and videos, see the full force of Yellowstone’s floods

By N. Kirkpatrick, Jason Samenow, Dylan Moriarty and Laris Karklis

With Yellowstone closed, gateway towns face a fight for survival

By Ali Wunderman

Floods, flames and heat: Images of extreme weather offer a stark backdrop for COP26 climate summit

The science of heat domes and how drought and climate change make them worse

By Jason Samenow, Artur Galocha and Diana Leonard

2021 brought a wave of extreme weather disasters. Scientists say worse lies ahead.

By Sarah Kaplan and Brady Dennis

Extreme weather tormenting the planet will worsen because of global warming, U.N. panel finds

By Jason Samenow and Kasha Patel

How climate change helped make Hurricane Ida one of Louisiana’s worst

By Sarah Kaplan

More climate news

How much will heat waves intensify where you live? See the impact by Zip code.

By John Muyskens, Andrew Ba Tran, Anna Phillips, Simon Ducroquet and Naema Ahmed

How climate change is impacting communities all over the world

By Washington Post Staff

These U.S. locations saw the most extreme temperatures in the past decade

By Jacob Feuerstein

How deforestation is pushing the Amazon toward a tipping point

By Terrence McCoy

Greenland ice sheet set to raise sea levels by nearly a foot, study finds

By Chris Mooney

More than 40% of Americans live in counties hit by climate disasters in 2021

By Sarah Kaplan and Andrew Ba Tran

Summer in America is becoming hotter, longer and more dangerous

By Anna Phillips, Brady Dennis, Jason Samenow, John Muyskens and Naema Ahmed

How climate change is making parts of the world too hot and humid to survive

By Ruby Mellen and William Neff

Forest fires burn twice as many trees as two decades ago, report finds

By Zach Rosenthal

This tree has stood here for 500 years. Will it be sold for $17,500?

By Juliet Eilperin

A crucial Antarctic ice shelf could fail within five years, scientists say

By Sarah Kaplan

How a Supreme Court ruling limits the EPA’s power to combat climate change

By Robert Barnes and Dino Grandoni

Climate change fuels a water rights conflict built on over a century of broken promises

By N. Kirkpatrick, Laris Karklis, James Cornsilk, Mason Trinca and Alice Li

How global climate targets are decided and what they actually mean

By Adam Taylor and Harry Stevens

Nearly 1 in 3 Americans experienced a weather disaster in summer 2021

By Sarah Kaplan and Andrew Ba Tran

A critical ocean system may be heading for collapse due to climate change, study finds

By Sarah Kaplan