The damage climate change will inflict on the world's economy is likely to have been massively underestimated, according to new research by my colleagues and me, which accounts for the full global ...

The United Nations' highest court will deliver a crucial opinion on Wednesday on what legal obligations states have to fight ...

Global warming does not affect our planet evenly. Some areas such as the Arctic region or high mountain peaks warm faster ...

The intensifying and expansive heat wave affecting around 150 million people in the United States from Wisconsin to Washington, DC, bears the hallmarks of human-caused global warming.

Bad climate news is everywhere. Africa is being hit particularly hard by climate change and extreme weather, impacting lives ...

Two terms – climate change and global warming – point to the same existential threat: Global temperatures have risen dramatically in about the past 150 years and scientists say they're on pace ...

Climate change is any long-term shift in average weather patterns. Climate change has occurred many times in Earth's history, and for many different reasons. The changes in global temperature and ...

Hoesung Lee, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, speaking at the global climate talks on Nov. 6 in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.

It turns out that Americans are more familiar with—and more concerned about— climate change and global warming than they are about climate crisis, climate emergency or climate justice ...

Researchers have quantified how climate change risks to human and natural systems increase at a national scale as the level of global warming increases. A collection of eight studies -- all ...

Demonstrations in Madrid, Tokyo, and Melbourne are being billed as a "Global Day of Action" ahead of climate change meetings beginning in Madrid next week. Imtiaz Tyab reports. Jun 12 ...

Prior to that time, the goal was to keep global warming below 2 C (3.6 F) above pre-industrial levels to meet the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s objective to “prevent ...