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Climate change weaves through our daily lives -- from global politics and business to sea levels and weather to the clothes we wear and the food we eat.

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Latest news

How your planet is changing

The threat lurking beneath the Arctic ice

Animal impact

Opinion

Joseph Stiglitz
Corporate greed is accelerating climate change. But we can still head off disaster
Anne Hidalgo, Paris mayor
Empower women to avert climate crisis
Katharine Wilkinson
Women hold the key to curbing climate change
Geoffrey Heal
Fighting climate change may be easier than we think
Mark Lynas
The more we know, the worse it seems

Taking action

Climate change, explained

ULSAN, SOUTH KOREA - MARCH 16: The power plant of SK Corporation oil refiner on March 16, 2006 in Ulsan, South Korea. The SK Corporation is Asia's leading energy and petrochemical company and South Korea's leading refiner, the fourth largest refiner in Asia and is also the World's second largest single complex oil refinery. Founded in 1962 as South Korea's first oil refiner. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

Don't believe these climate change lies

SANTA CRUZ PROVINCE, ARGENTINA - NOVEMBER 27: Ice calves at the Perito Moreno glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, the third largest ice field in the world, on November 27, 2015 in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. The majority of the almost 50 large glaciers in Los Glacieres National Park have been retreating during the past fifty years due to warming temperatures, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reports that over 68 percent of the world's freshwater supplies are locked in ice caps and glaciers. The United Nations climate change conference begins November 30 in Paris. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Undeniable climate change facts (2018)

Most Americans -- in nearly every county across the United States-- understand the world is warming, according to Yale University research released in February 2017.

The geographic guide to American climate confusion

Melting polar ice caps - Polar bear mother with two cubs on an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean between Franz Josef Land and the North Pole.

Effects of global warming around the world

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These are the most climate-damaging foods

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The new role of the TV weathercaster

Weather

In-depth

2 degrees: Key to climate change

Melting glaciers may someday flood your city

Protecting the Antarctic

Great Barrier Reef headed for 'massive death'

Vanishing

What it's like at the ground zero of climate change

More climate news

Catching Wolffish in the Arctic Circle

Democrats are betting big on big plans for 2020

Blythe Pepino has decided not to have biological children because of her fears about climate change.

BirthStrike: The people refusing to have kids, because of climate change

Avlon skewers Pompeo's solution for climate change

WEST DES MOINES, IA - FEBRUARY 1: Signs direct Republican and Democratic caucus-goers in precinct 317 at Valley Church on February 1, 2016 in West Des Moines, Iowa. The Democratic and Republican Iowa Caucuses, the first step in nominating a presidential candidate from each party, take place today. (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

CNN Iowa Poll: Abortion, climate change, guns top list of must-have issues for likely caucusgoers