Climate Change

This issue, if civilization can get its act together, might just mark a midpoint in TIME’s coverage of the biggest crisis facing our planet.

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2050: The Fight for Earth
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The Amazon Rain Forest Is Nearly Gone. We Went to the Front Lines to See If It Could Be Saved
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If nothing is done, the Amazon might completely disappear before the end of the century
September 12
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Opinion
Why Ignoring Africa's Climate Change Problem Could Have Devastating Effects
TIME - Graça Machel
Machel is a former Education Minister of Mozambique and a founding member of the Elders, a group of global leaders advocating for peace, justice and human rights Climate change is a global challenge that
September 12
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Opinion
Lifestyle Changes Aren’t Enough to Save the Planet. Here’s What Could
TIME - Michael E. Mann
Mann is a professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University and co-author of The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet,
September 12
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Opinion
This Comic Creator Hopes His Terrible Ideas for Producing Energy Will Inspire You to Think of Better Ones
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Lots of great ideas sound ridiculous at first. Putting mold on infected wounds sounds like a pretty bad idea, but it turned out to be revolutionary. On the other hand, not all creative ideas are good.
September 12
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Opinion
The Tech Innovations We Need to Happen if We're Going to Survive Climate Change
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In the 1970s, the U.S. Department of Energy poured money into making practical a miraculous technology: the ability to convert sunlight into electricity. Solar energy was a pipe dream, far too expensive
September 12
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Opinion
How Paris is Actually Walking the Climate-Change Walk
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Climate disasters have rarely been so devastating. Across Europe, temperatures have reached new heights. Our planet has endured an extraordinarily hot summer, sea ice continues to melt at an alarming and
September 12
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Opinion
Read ‘Great Barrier,’ Barbara Kingsolver’s Wrenching Ode to Our Planet
TIME - Barbara Kingsolver
Kingsolver is the author of 15 books, including a forthcoming book of poetry The cathedral is burning. Absent flame or smoke, stained glass explodes in silence, fractal scales of angel damsel rainbow Charred
September 12
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Opinion
How China Can Truly Lead the Fight Against Climate Change
TIME - Ma Jun
Ma is an environmentalist and director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, a Beijing-based NGO China is the world’s most populous country and the largest emitter of carbon. If it can
September 12
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Opinion
Jane Goodall: These 4 Issues May Not Seem Related to Climate Change. But They Are and We Need to Solve Them Now
TIME - Jane Goodall
Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and a United Nations Messenger of Peace. I’ve stood with Inuit elders by a great ice cliff in Greenland as water cascaded down and icebergs
September 12
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Opinion
These 5 Big Changes Are Key for Humanity to Survive a Warming Climate
TIME - Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon is the chair of the Global Commission on Adaptation and was the eighth Secretary General of the United Nations. Hundreds of millions of people are living with the effects of global warming
September 10
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Opinion
How Making Smart Financial Decisions Can Have a Positive Impact on Climate Change
TIME - Hiro Mizuno
Mizuno is the executive managing director of Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund There’s a lot of responsibility that comes with managing a fund with $1.5 trillion in assets—a responsibility that
September 12
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Opinion
Climate Change Isn't Just a Global Threat—It's a Public Health Emergency
TIME - Adrienne Hollis
Hollis, Ph.D., J.D., is the lead climate-justice analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists There can be no discussion about climate change without a meaningful conversation about public health. As health
September 12
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Al Gore: Youth Activists Are Demanding Action Against Climate Change. It’s Time For Us to Listen
TIME - Al Gore
Gore served as the 45th Vice President of the U.S. One of the important milestones in the struggle to build awareness of the climate crisis in the U.S. was the publication 30 years ago by TIME of its “Planet
September 12
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Columbia University
Meet 15 Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change
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From sinking islands to drought-ridden savannas, women bear an outsize burden of the global—warming crisis, largely because of gender inequalities. In many parts of the world, women hold traditional roles
September 12
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The Story Behind TIME's Climate Change Cover
TIME - D.W. Pine
Thirty years ago, TIME named Planet Earth its Man of the Year, featuring a cover by the artist Christo of the earth encased in plastic on a beach in Long Island, NY. For this week’s special issue cover
September 12
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What It’s Like Living in One of the Hottest Cities on Earth—Where It May Soon Be Uninhabitable
TIME - Aryn Baker
It’s just after 7 in the morning in the Pakistani city of Jacobabad, and donkey-cart driver Ahsan Khosoo is already drenched in sweat. For the past two hours, the 24-year-old laborer has been hauling of
September 12
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Can a 4,815-Mile Wall of Trees Help Curb Climate Change in Africa?
TIME - Aryn Baker / Mbar Toubab, Senegal
The seedlings are ready. One hundred and fifty thousand shoots of drought-resistant acacia, hardy baobab and Moringa spill out of their black plastic casings. The ground has been prepared with scores kilometer-long
September 12
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Opinion
Why TIME Devoted an Entire Issue to Climate Change
TIME - Edward Felsenthal
This issue, if civilization can get its act together, might just mark a midpoint in TIME’s coverage of the biggest crisis facing our planet. Three decades ago—at a moment when much of the world was only
September 12
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Politics
How Climate Change in Iowa is Changing U.S. Politics
TIME - Justin Worland / Des Moines
Kamala Harris is trying not to step in it. As the California Senator turned presidential candidate tours a beef-and-produce farm in south-central Iowa on Aug. 11, a crouching campaign aide carefully walks
September 12
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Opinion
Hello From the Year 2050. We Avoided the Worst of Climate Change — But Everything Is Different
TIME - Bill McKibben
McKibben is the author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? and a co-founder of 350.org Let’s imagine for a moment that we’ve reached the middle of the century. It’s 2050, and we have
September 12
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Climate Change
The Best Way to Save Nature? More Nature
TIME - By Ciara Nugent / Wallasea Island, U.K.
Avocets, terns and gulls swoop down onto Wallasea Island on England’s eastern coast, searching for food between blades of grass ruffled by the summer sea breeze. Aside from the wind, and the odd chirp
September 12
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Angelina Jolie: Climate Change Is Already Displacing Millions of People. It's Our Responsibility to Help Them
TIME - Angelina Jolie
Jolie, a TIME contributing editor, is an Academy Award–winning actor and Special Envoy of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees The technological sophistication of modern life masks a simple reality:
September 12
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Antarctica
These Charts Show How High Sea Levels Will Rise if Antarctica's Ice Continues to Melt
TIME - Jeffrey Kluger
Humans were not around to see Antarctica in the good times, tens of millions of years ago, when it was home to palms and baobab trees, reptiles and marsupials. It had some of the same mountains it has
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