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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

Melting glaciers may someday flood your city

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

burger grill

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

Protecting the Antarctic

Great Barrier Reef headed for 'massive death'

Flying above the Arctic with NASA

Vanishing

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

More climate news

TOPSHOT - A man rides his bicycle through a damaged road in Toa Alta, west of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 24, 2017 following the passage of Hurricane Maria.
Authorities in Puerto Rico rushed on September 23, 2017 to evacuate people living downriver from a dam said to be in danger of collapsing because of flooding from Hurricane Maria. / AFP PHOTO / Ricardo ARDUENGO (Photo credit should read RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP/Getty Images)

Grenada PM: Climate change is an existential threat for us in the islands

Exterior view of the US Capitol building, Washington DC, January 18, 2017. (Photo by Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

The Democratic Party is being transformed. These House votes show how.

Prince Charles agrees to meet Trump during controversial state visit

Michael Bennet links conservation with global warming in new climate plan

BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 03: Cars and traffic fill the A100 ring highway at dusk on November 3, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. Germany is heatedly debating the introduction of highway tolls (in German: Maut), which in the current form proposed by German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt would be levied solely on foreigners. Dobrindt's office argues that this is not discrimination, which would be illegal under European Union law, since Germans already pay an annual car tax. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Climate change concerns sour Germany's love for cars

Why Alyssa Milano and Lindsey Graham trended

Apple's Tim Cook says his generation failed on climate change