How USA TODAY mapped the potential consequences of a strike on US missile silos

The Nuclear Sponge is a five-part explanatory project by USA TODAY that aims to inform readers about the strategic debate and ...

Trump Pulls Out of Global Climate Treaty

The action could make it more difficult for a future administration to rejoin the Paris climate accord, the agreement among ...

What Is the UNFCCC and Why Is the U.S. Pulling Out?

The Trump administration said Wednesday that the United States was withdrawing from 66 international agreements, including a ...

Climate Models Don’t Account for This Surprising Shift in the North Pacific Storm Track

Climate change is unexpectedly causing north Pacific storms to shift toward the Arctic, throwing projections for future West ...

Warming winters and storm-driven dispersal facilitate northward mangrove expansion along the US Atlantic coast

In recent decades, mangroves along the Atlantic coast of North America have expanded into areas traditionally dominated by ...

How climate change supercharges wildfires in the West | National Geographic

Climate change has inexorably stacked the deck in favor of bigger and more intense fires across the American West over the past few decades, science has incontrovertibly shown. Increasing heat, ...