Changing Climate

“We can still avoid the worst of climate chaos – and we don’t have a moment to lose,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

More than 600 firefighters, including reinforcements from several European countries, are tackling the remnants of three major wildfires in Greece.

State and federal agencies are scrambling to find measures to combat what experts call one of the harshest and most neglected effects of climate change in the U.S.: rising heat deaths and injuries of people who work in triple-digit temperatures.

Economists calculate that the world’s corporations produce so much climate change pollution, it could eat up about 44% of their profits if they had to pay damages for what they put out.

Scientists say the loss of ice around Antarctica is hurting the survival of emperor penguin chicks.

Death certificates don’t always reflect the role that extreme heat played in ending a person’s life even when it seems obvious it was a factor.

Now that July’s sizzling numbers are all in, the European climate monitoring organization made it official: July 2023 was Earth’s hottest month on record by a wide margin.

The U.S. government’s most ambitious plan ever to slash planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles faces skepticism about how realistic it is and whether it goes far enough. The Environmental Protection Agency in April announced new strict emissions limits that it says are vital to slowing climate change. The EPA says the indus...

A record number of cruise passengers are expected this year in Alaska’s capital, drawn by wonders such as the long-retreating Mendenhall Glacier. So many people are expected that the city’s immediate concern is how to manage them all.

Researchers found that average winter wave heights have grown by as much as a foot since 1970, when global warming is believed to have begun accelerating.

It’s so hot in Arizona’s capital that not even the cactuses are surviving.

A new analysis found that more than 41 million Americans live in neighborhoods that are at least 8 degrees hotter than surrounding areas.

A collection of 362 menus going back to the 1880s from Vancouver, Canada illuminates how our diets are tied to the environment.