Commercial aircraft and shipping containers at Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York. (Richard Heaton)

Bumblebees are one of many native pollinators disappearing because of climate change. (Aaron Tremper)

Why Geoengineering Is a False Solution to Climate Change

Benjamin Day, senior campaigner at Friends of the Earth, critiques plans to manipulate the atmosphere to mitigate climate change.

By Liya Cui

How do scientists predict the future of Earth’s climate?

They use climate models. Here’s how they work.

By Saugat Bolakhe

Why are sunny day floods becoming more frequent in NYC?

Both sea-level rise and New York’s pre-industrial marshy, natural landscape contribute.
 
By Maja Clasen and Elias Guerra

How are hard-working wetlands faring with climate change?

These carbon “sinks” absorb greenhouse gases, but climate change is stressing them.

By Gretchen Smail

How do dung beetles protect against climate change?

These insects reduce methane gas emissions by rolling, burying and eating manure.

By Sunny Nagpaul

A front loader works on a two-story-tall heap of material at Sims Municipal Recycling in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. (Clark Adomaitis)
Protesters from Fridays For Future NYC, outside the United Nations in New York. (Syed Haq)

How Storm Chasers Collect Life-Saving Data

Jennifer Walton, the founder of Girls Who Chase, gathers ground-level data on tornado behavior.

By Janna McPartland 

Reporters & Editors

Reporters:

Clark Adomaitis
Pablo Alvarez
Audrey Carleton
Bruce Gil
Syed Haq
Brenna Holland
Abe Levine
Emily Nadal

Editors:

Richard Heaton
Cheyenne Ligon
Anny Oberlink
Zack Smith
Aaron Tremper

Faculty Advisers

Climate Correction was produced by students at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY‘s NYCity News Service under the guidance of Emily Laber-Warren, with site advisers Christine McKenna, Jere Hester and John Mancini.