Teens have a shaky understanding of the causes of climate change and the strong scientific consensus around the fact that human activity is driving up global temperatures, according to a report. A ...

Just over half of the children born in 2020 will face unprecedented exposure to heatwaves over their lifetime — even under a conservative projection for how climate change will unfold over the next 75 ...

ALBANY - Students must learn about climate change and environmental stewardship, the Board of Regents has decided. The topic has been required in high school science classes for years. But now it must ...

Students from Albany High School participate in a fish identifying workshop during the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s 23rd annual celebration of A Day in the Life of the Hudson and ...

Late last month, Hurricane Melissa pummeled Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean. It was one of the strongest Category 5 storms on record, and yet it’s just one among many severe and devastating ...

This story is a collaboration between Vox and Grist and builds on Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis, a project by Vox, Grist, and The 19th that examines how climate change impacts ...

An E.P.A. site listing the causes of climate change no longer includes the main one: human activity. By Lisa Friedman The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly removed the fact that human ...