Emily Atkin

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The country's new president wants to increase development in the Amazon rainforest, which absorbs a massive amount of carbon emissions.

Linguists are studying how climate-related migration is affecting regional American dialects.

A historic storm is passing over a remote U.S. territory with thousands of American citizens. Sound familiar?

Weeks after Hurricane Michael caught Florida off guard, another unexpected monster is heading toward Mexico.

The Interior Department denied plans to replace the agency's independent watchdog with a Trump loyalist—and then the watchdog released a damning report.

The Florida town, largely wiped out by Hurricane Michael, was marked by its resistance to corporations and overdevelopment.

There’s nothing wrong with tying unfolding tragedies to climate change.

A frightening report on climate change has some experts pondering the perils of optimism about the future.

Liberals are baffled about the conservative female support for an alleged sexual assaulter. Social scientists are not.

The president wants to let coal plants emit more of the neurotoxin. The Supreme Court nominee's views on the subject are already clear.

It's the "Year of the Woman." So why is this issue being overlooked ahead of the midterms?

Years of Republican rule in North Carolina left the state vulnerable to the predictable impacts of a storm like Florence.

Why America should rethink how it talks about—and ranks—tropical storms

Hurricane Florence and Super Typhoon Mangkhut laid bare the disproportionate consequences for poor communities.

The historic storm has been pummeling the Carolinas for days, but officials say the worst impacts may be yet to come.