Sarah Kaplan

• Climate

There is a secret landscape beneath every field of wildflowers. A place inhabited by beings just as varied and beautiful as the blossoms above. This is the world of seeds.

• Climate

Americans disproportionately move to fire- and flood-prone counties, but high insurance costs and climate change awareness may be shifting migration trends, per new data.

• Climate

This week marked the apex of an unprecedented hot streak that toppled records and left communities and ecosystems reeling.

• Climate

The historic stretch comes on the heels of 13 straight months of unprecedented temperatures and the hottest year scientists have ever seen.

• Health

Climate change helped fuel an explosion of dengue cases in the Americas, including Puerto Rico, as mosquitoes multiply in warmer, wetter weather.

• Economy

Researchers warn the hazards of climate change will only get worse, for the planet and the economy. Items as varied as groceries and insurance will get more expensive.

• Climate

Scorching heat across five continents set 1,400 records this week and showed how human-caused global warming has made catastrophic temperatures commonplace.

• Climate Solutions

For the first time ever, researchers have detected a significant dip in atmospheric levels of hydrochlorofluorocarbons -- harmful gases that deplete the ozone layer and warm the planet.

• Climate

Each of the past ten months has been the hottest on record – an unprecedented streak of unprecedented temperatures that has fueled alarm among climate scientists.