Known as the “hypertropics,” this climate is defined by hot drought conditions—and hasn’t been seen on Earth for tens of ...

The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most ...

A new study predicts that by 2100, the Amazon rainforest could experience up to 150 days of hot drought conditions each year, ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has altered and removed information from its web site that connected climate change to the burning of fossil fuels.

Ocean temperatures warmed by human-caused climate change fed the intense rainfall that triggered deadly floods and landslides ...

In Northwest Alaska, a proposed 211-mile mining road has divided an Inupiaq community already devastated by climate change.

The Amazon rainforest is slowly transitioning to a new, hotter climate with more frequent and intense droughts—conditions ...

The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research ...

The Nobel Committee and Royal Swedish Academy of Science has been urged to establish a climate and planetary health prize, in ...

An E.P.A. site listing the causes of climate change no longer includes the main one: human activity. The Environmental ...

The appeals court halted enforcement of the climate regulations as a result of proceedings in a lawsuit filed by a number of business groups, including the California Chamber of Commerce.

As a professor and climate scientist at the University of Maine and, until recently, the director of the school’s highly ...