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 ...

Meteorologists are reaching for superlatives to describe an oncoming heat wave so intense and rare for this time of year that it could leave some locations shattering their all-time temperature ...

Physical inactivity rises alongside temperature. A study in Lancet projected up to 700,000 additional deaths by 2050 and $3.68 billion in annual productivity losses.

Meteorologists say the United States is getting hit by almost every kind of extreme weather at once, as spring air masses collide and the jet stream twists.

EDF and UCS have posted the documents received under the court order on this webpage, along with instructions for searching through them.

These records released under a federal court order reveal that many of the Trump administration’s unlawful climate actions stem from a secretly formed “Climate Working Group” that targeted the ...

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

The High Meadows Environmental Institute will host a lecture by Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist, distinguished professor and endowed chair at Texas Tech University, and chief scientist at ...

Skiers and snowboarders, especially when fired up by fresh snow, can talk with enough slang that it can sound like they’re ...

A rockslide at Whistler Peak has closed a section of Whistler Blackcomb. Finding out the cause might have to wait until the summer, a geoscientist says.

The New Ulm Garden Club opened spring season Wednesday evening with a packed house and a timely topic: how to bring Minnesota’s native plants back to local yards, one garden at a time. Regional ...

In northern latitudes and high altitudes, permafrost stays frozen year-round, holding mountain summits together. As global temperatures rise, much of it thaws, loosening soil and increasing landslide ...