Scientists have many ways to track the climate over time. These methods have made it clear that today's climate change is ...

In the battle to slow climate change, local and state governments, as well as citizens, have taken to the courts. Their ...

New warnings from financial firms and insurers point to a future defined by profound risks to the global economy from heat, ...

For example, Utah’s Zion National Park has four days annually on average above 92.4 degrees – its 99th percentile temperature ...

It’s much easier to go carless if your city has a good public transport system, for example. The UN report sets out five ...

Seasonal allergy sufferers are being hit with more pollen over a longer season due to rising temperatures alongside extreme allergy events like thunderstorm asthma.

A new U.N. report maps a path toward a more sustainable future and challenges society to question basic assumptions and values about the environment, consumption and waste.

In the next 15 years, the New York area could lose more than 80,000 homes to floods, worsening the housing shortage, ...

Friederike Otto, 42, is a climate scientist at Imperial College London, where she is best known for pioneering the new field of attribution science, in which researchers calculate in real time how ...

With the repercussions of climate change rising, developing countries will require more substantial commitments from ...