The researchers developed this checklist for designing more effective graphs for IPCC reports and other communications. The researchers recommend following graph design best practices and including ...

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its 2023 climate report detailing what the panel's chair, Hoesung Lee, called "the urgency of taking more ambitious [climate] action.

Few illustrations have electrified the climate movement more successfully—and globally—than Ed Hawkins’s climate stripes. The problem is, “warming stripes” have only ever shown part of the ...

$2.3 billion: To help cities prepare for and withstand weather disasters. Keeping cool: Aid for heat-stricken low-income areas. Wind energy: Wind turbines proposed for Gulf, Atlantic coast. President ...

Plastic is a miracle material, shaped and folded into our lives in everything from cigarette filters to medical tubing to car bumpers. It’s in the toys we give our children; it keeps our food fresh ...

Last year was the planet’s hottest year on record, and that streak is continuing into 2024. Friday, June 21 is the seventh “Show Your Stripes” day, an event dedicated to growing awareness about ...

It started at Hay Literary Festival. Professor Ed Hawkins was trying to find a way to communicate climate change to an audience that might not be able to interpret scientific graphics or data. “I ...

Get ready for the possibility of a little more shaking and bumping on your next flight, a study by scientists at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom suggests. Clear-air turbulence, ...

Few illustrations have electrified the climate movement more successfully—and globally—than Ed Hawkins’s climate stripes. Since the British climate scientist first published his graphic in 2018, the ...