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Climate change weaves through our daily lives -- from global politics and business to sea levels and weather to the clothes we wear and the food we eat.

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Latest news

How your planet is changing

The threat lurking beneath the Arctic ice

Animal impact

Opinion

Joseph Stiglitz
Corporate greed is accelerating climate change. But we can still head off disaster
Anne Hidalgo, Paris mayor
Empower women to avert climate crisis
Katharine Wilkinson
Women hold the key to curbing climate change
Geoffrey Heal
Fighting climate change may be easier than we think
Mark Lynas
The more we know, the worse it seems

Taking action

Climate change, explained

ULSAN, SOUTH KOREA - MARCH 16: The power plant of SK Corporation oil refiner on March 16, 2006 in Ulsan, South Korea. The SK Corporation is Asia's leading energy and petrochemical company and South Korea's leading refiner, the fourth largest refiner in Asia and is also the World's second largest single complex oil refinery. Founded in 1962 as South Korea's first oil refiner. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

Don't believe these climate change lies

SANTA CRUZ PROVINCE, ARGENTINA - NOVEMBER 27: Ice calves at the Perito Moreno glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, the third largest ice field in the world, on November 27, 2015 in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. The majority of the almost 50 large glaciers in Los Glacieres National Park have been retreating during the past fifty years due to warming temperatures, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reports that over 68 percent of the world's freshwater supplies are locked in ice caps and glaciers. The United Nations climate change conference begins November 30 in Paris. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Undeniable climate change facts (2018)

Most Americans -- in nearly every county across the United States-- understand the world is warming, according to Yale University research released in February 2017.

The geographic guide to American climate confusion

Melting polar ice caps - Polar bear mother with two cubs on an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean between Franz Josef Land and the North Pole.

Effects of global warming around the world

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These are the most climate-damaging foods

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The new role of the TV weathercaster

Weather

In-depth

2 degrees: Key to climate change

Melting glaciers may someday flood your city

Protecting the Antarctic

Great Barrier Reef headed for 'massive death'

Vanishing

What it's like at the ground zero of climate change

More climate news

GLASTONBURY, ENGLAND - JUNE 26: Collected rubbish and litter is processed at the Glastonbury Festival's purpose built Recycling Centre as festival goers leave the Glastonbury Festival site at Worthy Farm in Pilton on June 26, 2017 near Glastonbury, England. Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is the largest greenfield festival in the world. It was started by Michael Eavis in 1970 when several hundred hippies paid just £1, and now attracts more than 175,000 people (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

How not to trash the planet at a music festival

Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (L) and his wife Britain's Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (R) disembark from the plane upon their arrival at the airport in Banjul, for an official visit, on October 31, 2018. (Photo by Seyllou / POOL / AFP) (Photo credit should read SEYLLOU/AFP/Getty Images)

Britain's royal family doubles carbon emissions from travel

Former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue arrives in Trump Tower, November 30, 2016 in New York, to meet with US President-elect Donald Trump.

Agriculture Secretary Perdue on climate crisis: 'It rained yesterday, it's a nice pretty day today'

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Mike Pence's unbelievable answer on whether climate change is a threat

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Pence won't say if climate crisis is a threat to US

NYPD arrests 66 people at a climate protest outside The New York Times offices

Oregon GOP state senators again fail to show up for legislative session amid climate bill protest