Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Extreme heat can threaten human health, but it's only one way climate change puts lives at risk. Drew Angerer/Getty Images The U.S ...

Do efforts to prevent climate change need a new public face? Bill Gates seems to think so. In his annual letter, which was released this week, the co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ...

Health and climate action can be designed together, supporting and reinforcing each other, instead of being treated as ...

In just the last year, the Trump administration has derailed an international carbon tax, boosted forecasts for oil and gas, and sought to silence an island nation’s climate campaign.

For decades, the Democratic Party has elevated the fight to stop climate change above every other economic concern. Jobs, energy prices, economic growth, and even inequality all took back seats to ...

Many philosophers have noticed the similarities between environmental damage and the puzzle of the self-torturer.

Bill McKibben is the author of “Here Comes the Sun” and founder of Third Act, an elder-led movement for climate action and democracy protection. I remember distinctly the first time I heard public ...

(CNN) — Record-breaking heat waves, severe floods and acute wildfires, exacerbated by climate change, carry a colossal price tag: an approximately 19% reduction in global income over just the next 26 ...

WASHINGTON — Top environmental advocates in the Senate aren’t ready to stop talking about the threat of climate change, even as they acknowledge the environmental movement needs to pivot its messaging ...

Story by Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison If you’ve been ...

Extreme heat can threaten human health, but it’s only one way climate change puts lives at risk. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; ...