Global Warming

Scientists have looked at decades of data on trees and other native Missouri plants blooming. As the region warms, plants are reacting by changing their bloom times.

Tuesday was the warmest Feb. 27 in St. Louis’ recorded history.

It was the warmest year on record globally, and St. Louisans also felt the heat.

The fifth National Climate Assessment says a warming climate, increasingly extreme weather and drought are threatening the Midwest’s economy and health.

The global combined land and ocean-surface temperature was 1.67 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average, according to NOAA, the hottest in 142 years of record-keeping.

It’s a frequently shared adage in publishing that only 3 percent of the books published in the United States are translations from books originally…

In his book “Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming,” author and freelance journalist McKenzie Funk moves the conversation on climate change…

Randall Hyman is a St. Louis-based photojournalist and writer. For more than three decades, he has traveled the globe covering cultural and environmental…

There is a consensus among scientists that global warming is occurring, and the increase in temperature is man-made. The U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on…

Missouri's coal-fired power plants are among the largest sources of carbon dioxide pollution in the country and a significant contributor to global…