“All systems are flashing red,” Clea Schumer, a researcher at the World Resources Institute, one of the organizations involved in the report, said last week on a call with reporters. “There’s no doubt ...

This story is part of the Grist series Vital Signs, exploring the ways climate change affects your health. This reporting initiative is made possible thanks to support from the Wellcome Trust. As ...

In Climate Change Weekly 553 I discussed how the U.S. Department of Energy’s recent climate report restarted the largely dormant debate about the possible causes and consequences of climate change.