Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The essence of the Paris climate agreement was distilled into a single number.

How do plants adapt to drought and heat? New studies on plants of the Canary Islands show that adaptation is not determined by a single character but by the interaction of entire sets of characters.

Since 2015’s Paris climate agreement, poor, climate-vulnerable nations have made a case for wealthy, industrialized nations (responsible for most climate change) to pay hundreds of billions for ...

The world stands at a crossroads. The latest science leaves no doubt. We are on course in the short-term to overshoot the 1.5 degrees Celsius limit agreed in Paris. The U.N. secretary-general has ...