The study of climate change refugia — places that are buffered from the worst effects of global warming — has grown rapidly ...

A new interactive online map highlights the places which could be hardest hit by climate change in the future. The map is accessible to anyone with an internet connection and can be used to compare ...

A new climate change map shows predictions for just how devastated the future climate will be in various places around the world. The map, which is called The Future Urban Climates, allows interested ...

A cold, rainy summer might not be much to look forward to, but experts now say Britons should enjoy it while they can. This interactive map developed by scientists from the University of Maryland lets ...

All 10 of the country’s most at-risk counties are in the South, according to the Climate Vulnerability Index, and half of them are in Louisiana. By Kate Yoder/Grist Published Oct 7, 2023 7:00 PM EDT ...

Climate change can be hard to fully fathom, especially because those in power continually seem to downplay alarming reports by scientists and our country’s own institutions. In an effort to help make ...

A geography professor has created a new interactive map that allows students or researchers to compare the climates of places anywhere in the world. The map draws on five decades of public ...

Over decades, centuries and millennia, the steady skyward climb of redwoods, the tangled march of mangroves along tropical coasts and the slow submersion of carbon-rich soil in peatlands has locked ...

Called SoCalEarth.org, the online mapping tool was developed by Pitzer College’s Robert Redford Conservancy in partnership with Redlands-based GIS leader Esri. Susan Phillips, a Pitzer College ...

SUN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 20: An entrance to southbound Interstate 5 is blocked due to flooding as tropical storm Hilary moves through the area on August 20, 2023 in Sun Valley, California.

You probably saw a multi-coloured climate map at least once in school. You might have pored over it, fascinated. Was Antarctica really a cold desert? And why was so much of Russia listed as tundra?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Reporting from Europe, Jeff McMahon covers the environment. If she's elected president, Hillary Clinton intends to equip the White ...