Bill Gates gets climate change wrong. It’s not a binary—humanity survives or goes extinct—it’s a questions of scale: How many people will die or be left destitute? This story is part of Covering ...

Bill McKibben is the author of “Here Comes the Sun” and founder of Third Act, an elder-led movement for climate action and democracy protection. I remember distinctly the first time I heard public ...

Do efforts to prevent climate change need a new public face? Bill Gates seems to think so. In his annual letter, which was released this week, the co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ...

Re “We’re blowing past our climate goals. Now what?”: Taken together, much of the commentary in the Jan. 11 Ideas section amounts to a sober shrug: Climate change will be bad, it will get worse, and ...

A reader’s wife is angry about what she sees as insufficient commitment to the cause of environmentalism, alienating the couple’s friends. By Philip Galanes My wife has become an eco-warrior. She has ...

Extreme heat can threaten human health, but it’s only one way climate change puts lives at risk. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; ...

Bill Gates gets climate change wrong. It’s not a binary—humanity survives or goes extinct—it’s a questions of scale: How many people will die or be left destitute? Bill Gates “Suffering increases with ...