The annual New York City Climate Week and United Nations General Assembly that's just about to start are emphasizing how to generate trillions of dollars that will be needed to help poorer countries move away from gas, oil and coal, fuels that release greenhouse gases and heat the planet
September 21, 2024
Six years after a teenage Greta Thunberg walked out of school in a solitary climate protest outside of the Swedish parliament, young people around the world staged fresh marches and said their protests are not being sufficiently acted upon
September 20, 2024
Change has broken, remade and continues to reshape the remote Canadian town of Churchill on the shore of Hudson Bay
September 10, 2024
The European climate service Copernicus says Earth just sweltered to its hottest summer on record
September 06, 2024
A new study finds that every year people create 57 million tons of plastic pollution
September 04, 2024
To figure out what really works when nations try to fight climate change, researchers looked at 1,500 ways countries have tried to curb heat-trapping gases
August 22, 2024
The Paris Olympics bet against climate change when they scheduled some outdoor swimming events in the Seine River, and for a while it looked like they would lose
July 31, 2024
Fireflies once seemed plentiful and cool, easy to catch and watch, and they served as an introduction to the world of nature around us
July 24, 2024
The head of upcoming climate negotiations is telling world leaders that a new financial aid package for poor and disaster-struck nations is the urgent and make-or-break goal of United Nations talks this fall
July 17, 2024Despite a record 46-day streak of triple digit feels-like temperatures, Miami’s unprecented brutal summer last year wasn’t that deadly, contrasting with the rest of the nation where federal records show heat fatalities nationally spiked to a 45-year high
July 11, 2024
The European climate service Copernicus says Earth's more than year-long streak of record-shattering hot months kept on simmering through June
July 08, 2024
After hitting Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and downgrading to a tropical storm, Beryl is expected to once again become a hurricane as it hurtles towards southern Texas by Sunday evening
July 06, 2024
A new study says the melting of Alaska’s Juneau icefield, home to more than 1,000 glaciers, is accelerating
July 02, 2024
Hurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in right now and the kind of season ahead
July 01, 2024
Experts hope the sputtering global public health system and efforts to curb global warming through collaboration can combine to create a better system for handling the problem
September 18, 2023
While the U.S. is shivering through bone-chilling cold, most of the rest of world is feeling unusually warm weather
January 16, 2024
When dangerous heat waves strike, what happens inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees
June 21, 2024
A new study finds that human-caused climate change dialed up the heat and drastically increased the odds of this month’s killer heat that has been baking the Southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America
June 20, 2024
With their bulging red eyes and their alien-like mating sound, periodical cicadas can seem scary and weird enough
June 19, 2024
The periodical cicadas that have blanketed parts of the American Midwest this spring are strange creatures, but they have nothing on some of their superfans
June 15, 2024
John Kerry feels he’s going out on a high note as he retires from leading U.S. efforts in international negotiations to confront ever-worsening climate change
March 04, 2024
Top scientists calculate that the rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year’s surprising record-shattering heat caused by humans
June 04, 2024
Scientists say temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history
May 16, 2024
A new study finds that the broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years
May 14, 2024
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs last year, growing at near-record fast paces
April 05, 2024
Giant sinkholes in a South Dakota neighborhood make families fear for their safety
For a week, New York will be center of money-focused fight to slow climate change
Hungarian intelligence agency interviewed CEO linked to exploding Hezbollah pagers
Hundreds of parachutists drop over Dutch heath to commemorate World War II operation
An Israeli strike on a school kills at least 22 people, Gaza Health Ministry says
US election uncertainty clouds UN climate finance progress
Jackson marks 50th appearance for Chelsea with 2 goals in 3-0 win at West Ham
Oktoberfest is open. The world’s largest folk festival begins after ceremonial keg-tapping
Low brow and vulgar? Micro dramas shake up China's film industry, aim for Hollywood