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Climate Change

<p>The World keeps you up to date on the latest news, analysis and voices from around the world on the global climate crisis.</p>

Australian flooding

Climate migration has begun, and it’s only getting worse, expert says

Climate Change

A new migration crisis looms on the horizon. Where will people go when a changing climate renders their homelands uninhabitable? And what can governments do about it?

Reunion Island artist Dilo surrounded by pink and magenta flowers around her head.

Reunion Island artist Dilo uses the sounds of nature to celebrate it 

The Big Fix
Farmworkers wearing hats gather spinach from a field.

As temperatures heat up, farmworkers across the US push for more rights

Human rights
Child holds onto an inflatable globe

Capitalism is ruining the world, and can save it, says economist

Climate Change
The sun sits above the horizon over melting ice in the arctic by the ocean in the arctic.

Is climate change causing us to experience ‘ecological grief’?

Environment
Multiple white windmills dot the blue ocean.

America’s windiest spot looks to harness the ocean winds with some British help

Climate Change

Finding more sources of renewable energy will be critical to battle climate change. In northern Europe, they’re harnessing the ocean winds offshore. Some in Massachusetts are looking to replicate that with some help from across the Atlantic.

Syrian refugee, Malik Alarmash, left, speaks with Clarkston Mayor Ted Terry, right, at the Refuge Coffee Shop in Clarkston, Georgia. Stephanie Steinbrecher with the Sierra Club, center, listens.

Legally, ‘climate refugees’ don’t exist. But in Georgia, they say they’re already here.

Climate Change

Climate scientists agree that storms and droughts are becoming more severe, and the trend is only going to continue. As people get displaced, they face a big question: rebuild or relocate? It’s a dilemma that many people across the globe are facing and will inevitably lead to more people on the move to places like Clarkston, Georgia.

Two adults sit at the front of an elementary school classroom as children's heads fill the bottom of the frame.

These fourth graders penned climate change poetry inspired by our coverage

A story from The World inspired a Boston 4th grader to write a poem about climate change and the Amazon. Then her whole class got into the act.

The tops of buildings are barely visible through a thick layer of smog.

Smothered by smog, activists are urging Poland to reconsider coal

Climate Change

Coal smog can make many poles feel like they’re living in the 19th century. Now a growing grassroots movement is pushing local and national governments to cut smog and rethink the country’s heavy reliance on coal.

forest

How a forest became Germany’s poster child for a coal exit

Environment

For decades, RWE has been slowly razing the forest and surrounding towns to expand its adjacent coal mine, among Europe’s largest producers of lignite coal and greatest sources of carbon dioxide pollution. And earlier this fall, the company moved to start cutting a new section that protesters have been occupying.