The natural world is under siege by climate change. Rising temperatures are pushing plants and animals outside their current range. To keep pace with climate change,...
Years of number crunching that had seemed to corroborate the climate benefits of American biofuels were starkly challenged in a science journal on Thursday, with a...
The reign of record hot months in 2016 continues, with last month claiming the title of hottest July on record globally, according to data released by...
An uptick in sea level rise caused by greenhouse gas pollution during the past two decades has been hiding behind a volcano. The eruption of Mount...
The warming of the world’s climate has reached a fever pitch in recent years, causing records to fall like dominoes. In 2015, the planet saw a...
Several months after storms fueled by a fierce El Niño exploded over the northern Sierra Nevada, California’s mountain snowpack has nearly disappeared. Scientists bid adieu last...
China’s industrialized economy is transforming itself from one heavily reliant on coal and steel production to a greener one that uses less energy. But as studies...
The oceans have heaved up and down as world temperatures have waxed and waned, but as new research tracking the past 2,800 years shows, never during...
Just days after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling clouded the future of a new United Nations climate pact, the passing of one of its justices has...
A Canadian company’s efforts to produce oil sands in the United States are not dead, but thanks to crude oil prices that have dipped below $30...
By Andrea Thompson, Climate Central A parade of El Niño-fueled storms has marched over California in the last few weeks, bringing bouts of much needed rain...
The Obama administration’s most sweeping climate policy, the Clean Power Plan, is meant to cut carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal-fired power plants — the largest source...
By Brian Kahn, Climate Central We’re coming to the end of arguably the most influential year ever when it comes to climate change. The agreements struck...
It’s about as sure a bet as you can make: 2015 is going to be the hottest year on record. Month after month this year, above-average...
By Andrea Thompson, Climate Central After several weeks of hurricanes setting records left and right, the ocean basins of the world have gone quiet: There are...