Thousands of firefighters battling a wildfire in northern California are getting some help from the weather just hours after the blaze exploded in size, scorching an area larger than Los Angeles.

Human-caused climate change and El Niño have heated ocean waters to record levels, giving tropical storms a boost, scientists say.

The world’s seas are simmering, with record high temperatures spurring worry among forecasters that the global warming effect may generate a chaotic year of extreme weather ahead.

Emissions reduction is the only way to avoid catastrophic sea-level rise

Lake Powell, the country's second-largest reservoir, is drying up.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced the first shortage declaration for Lake Mead and the lower Colorado River Basin in its history, triggering cuts to individual states’ water allocation…

Some areas already seeing their hottest summer on record are about to get hotter, with highs climbing to 102 to 110 degrees

The world’s first subsidy-free offshore wind farm, located off the coast of the Netherlands, has begun generating electricity.

What might sound like small changes – temperatures another tenth of a degree warmer, sea level a few centimeters higher – have big consequences for the world around us.

Amber heat warnings have been posted in England, which could near its highest temperature on record: 101.7 degrees

As the climate changes and weather warms, the freezing line is shifting, bringing rain to many regions more accustomed to snow.

A new study out of Harvard finds that ramping up wind power in America would also dial up the nation’s temperatures.

The National Academies said the United States must study technologies that would artificially cool the planet by reflecting away some sunlight, citing the lack of progress fighting global warming.

Two tough policy challenges. One elegant solution.

Seismometers, which measure the movement of the ground typically from earthquakes, can pick up the seismic waves from the thrashing ocean.

New research shows that by 2050 an additional 1 billion people will live in areas with high levels of water stress. See where water is scarcest in the world — and why we need to conserve.

The record-breaking warmth is raising concerns about melting summer ice.

Last week, Florida governor Ron DeSantis became the latest Republican governor to sign a bill making it harder for citizens to shift away from the fossil fuels that are changing the climate.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said the "one-in-100-year flood" is happening much more frequently.

The report warns that plastic production is set to grow by 30% in the next five years, creating even more plastic waste and exacerbating the climate emergency.

Young voters are intimately aware that they will be forced to bear the full effects of climate change—and they’re voting with that in mind.

To battle the nearly one-million-acre Dixie fire, California launched a military-style operation. Some experts wonder whether that approach is sustainable.

Recommendations include heat forecasts and outdoor-worker safeguards to prevent thousands of deaths and injuries

Texas is making national headlines for its climate change–related extreme weather again — this time for a so-called heat dome that’s trapping warm temperatures over the area.

The first major legislation House Republicans passed under newly installed Speaker Mike Johnson would cut billions of dollars in consumer rebates for energy efficiency upgrades included in President...

From drought to cyclones and sea level rise, the cost of damage caused by climate change in Africa will only get higher as the world warms, stirring concerns from activists and officials about how to...

A group of MIT researchers are proposing the manufacturing and use of "space bubbles" to mitigate climate change — and it's so crazy that it might work.

Insurance giant IAG has warned a failure to reduce carbon emissions could result in a world that is "pretty much uninsurable".

The world is heading toward a "death sentence for vulnerable countries," says U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.

The Colorado program could be a national model as cities look to motorized bikes as a way to cut emissions and ease traffic.

The world's largest carbon emitters are not listening to what's happening to countries facing extreme weather, said the minister of environment in Maldives.

Warren Entsch, an advocate for the Adani-Carmichael coalmine, is of the opinion that "we don't need to save the reef."

While Covid ravaged across the world, air pollution killed about three times as many people. We must fight the climate crisis with the same urgency with which we confronted coronavirus

Joe Biden’s emphasis on creating a 100% carbon-free system by 2035 could unlock major breakthroughs. But it’s a difficult path few other nations are taking.

By Jake Spring (Reuters) - Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders joined United Nations officials on Monday in urging financial institutions to stop ban...

Rescues and evacuations are taking place as the state braces for another wall of rain and snow in the coming days.

Solar geoengineering ideas could weaken storms in both hemispheres, scientists find.

Henan province calls for its local governments to take emergency measures, with water for homes and livestock a priority.