This puts us on a collision course with the climate’s tipping points, said Stefan Rahmstorf, an author of the study and head ...

Climate change is making extreme weather events and natural hazards more frequent and intense. Here’s how to prepare before they hit.

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In low and middle-income countries, this will drop by 1.85%. Hot spot countries close to the Equator could show inactivity of 4% by 2050. This would mean between 470,000 and 700,000 people worldwide ...

Scientists disagree whether human-made climate change or natural fluctuations are mostly to blame for worse-than-expected heat in recent years ...

Trump’s call to “drill baby drill,” along with his repealing of regulations on fossil fuel emissions and on limits of gas and oil drilling, mining, and deforestation, will severely increase the ...

Trump has said he wants a baby boom. Is it here? Within his administration, it seems to be. More widely, however, the answer is complicated.

California test scores typically fall below national averages, with disadvantaged groups lagging behind others. Adequate Medi ...

The answer has to do with the air we breathe and that bright white snowpack, as an atmospheric scientist in Colorado explains.

In his letter, Fred Gutmann refers to global warming as a “hoax.” As a concerned citizen, I cannot let that statement go unanswered.

Democratic Texas state Rep. James Talarico has a long history of pushing his liberal vision on schools, including bragging that ...

Methane remains in the atmosphere for about 12 years, much shorter than carbon dioxide (CO₂), but it is far more effective at ...