Scientists say 4 billion people, about half the world’s population, experienced at least one extra month of extreme heat ...

In a new analysis, the World Meteorological Organization has predicted that global average warming will remain above 1.5°C ...

Get ready for several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to more deadly, fiery and uncomfortable ...

New research reveals the amount of carbon dioxide released by trees into the atmosphere under a warming climate could be ...

The compounding effects of climate change are changing the ways schools operate, as they cancel classes on days with extreme heat or when wildfire smoke is clouding the air and contend with ...

When you think of threats from climate change, you probably envision flooding and wind from supercharged hurricanes, or unprecedented heatwaves. A survey of people in the US from late 2024 found ...

A mountain of scientific research has shown that climate change is making heat waves longer, hotter, more likely, and more dangerous. A recent study published in Nature Climate Change adds ...

A growing number of climate activists are taking up a fresh idea as a rallying cry and a legal strategy: Nature, in all its ...

Climate change's disproportionate burden on youth Climate extremes, including heatwaves, crop failures, river floods, tropical cyclones, wildfires and droughts, will intensify with continued ...

Kristie L. Ebi ([email protected]) is a professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington, in Seattle. Jeremy J. Hess is a professor of environmental and occupational ...

Whales have inspired rich histories of storytelling. From the stories told by the Haida in the Pacific Northwest about sǵaana ...

The Arctic is warming almost four times faster than the rest of the planet. High temperatures are already causing the ...