Climate change is the defining health challenge of the 21st century, with record-breaking temperatures and extreme weather ...

Under the Trump administration, NOAA has minimized an announcement that climate-warming carbon dioxide concentrations in the ...

As of March, American power plants had released over 300 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the most ...

Scientists are worried because they can’t fully explain the big jump, but they think it might mean that carbon absorption by forests, fields and wetlands is slowing down—a major problem for the world.

Major economies are overstating how much carbon their forests can absorb in a climate accounting fudge that could allow them ...

Extreme heat caused by emissions from 111 fossil fuel companies cost an estimated $28 trillion between 1991 and 2020, ...

Current climate policy is insufficient. Learn how human emissions drive climate change and the consequences of inaction.

A new study lays out a scientific framework for holding individual fossil fuel companies liable for the costs of climate change by tracing specific damages back to their emissions. The researchers use ...

Brazil, which hosts this year's United Nations climate summit, has a main goal of persuading Europe, China and other ...

Vermont was the first state to try to hold polluters accountable for climate disasters. New research aims to assign specific ...

As part of The World's ongoing series The Big Fix, Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Susanna Lidström, a researcher at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, about the tension ...

Australia is headed in the wrong direction. It is time for us to turn around and confront climate change and what it means.