Beginning next week at the COP 27 meeting, global climate negotiators will try to put decades of bureaucratic bargaining into practice in areas where rising temperatures are hitting people the hardest...
Scientists say drought and other climate change impacts are undermining their ability to protect and document important sites before they degrade or disappear
The large utility PacifiCorp is studying the viability of turning five fossil-fuel plants into nuclear-energy-and-storage facilities
A research facility halfway up Mount Everest is crucial for research on climate change and biodiversity. And it’s falling apart
A $1-billion investment will help school districts around the U.S. beef up their electric school bus fleets—a move that advocates called a “total game changer”
There are growing calls for a mechanism to pay developing countries for losses and damages they’ve suffered from climate change—a problem they did little to create
Devastating floods in Pakistan are driving the spread of disease—and climate change is making such events more common
Our leaders ignored the lessons learned from Hurricane Maria, and Fiona caused more destruction than it should have
Emissions associated with energy use are on track to increase by only 1 percent this year because of a boom in wind and solar power
The Garden State is one of two dozen local governments suing oil and gas companies for allegedly lying to consumers and contributing to global warming
Record-breaking wildfires released twice the amount of emissions that California cut between 2003 and 2019, though unlike fossil-fuel emissions, they can eventually be reabsorbed by vegetation...
Two expeditions to the Thwaites Ice Shelf have revealed that it could splinter apart in less than a decade, hastening sea-level rise worldwide
Climate change may be leading to strange hostilities between different animal species over limited resources
Many retirees put their savings into real estate in the parts of southwestern Florida that Hurricane Ian severely damaged
Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of wildfires, and those most affected by their pollution must drive miles to access care
Meltwater from Greenland churns the ocean, speeding the loss of glaciers like stirring ice cubes in a glass of water
As USGS takes over operations of a Landsat satellite, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland explains how the data gathered will help the Biden administration’s climate change plans...
Global warming made drought that has gripped the Northern Hemisphere, from China to Europe to the U.S., 20 times more likely to occur
A youth-led climate change lawsuit against the state of Montana is scheduled to be heard in June and could be the first of its kind in the U.S.
A house built from geodesic domes off the coast of Florida was designed to withstand gale-force winds and powerful storm surges but not sea-level rise
