The NEJM has published a horrifying account of a health-care executive trying to evade what appear to be mafia tactics by the federal government.

Six months in, doctors and researchers are continuing to discover dangerous new ways COVID-19 affects the body.

Meteorologists and climate scientists all around the world are in awe by the simultaneous literal “off the charts” records being broken.

The extreme wildfires the state is battling are apocalyptic heralds of climate change. And the scariest part is that they could be worse.

Even vaccinating only the most elderly in Israel, who make up a tiny percentage of the population, could have a massive impact on coronavirus deaths.

Antarctic sea ice has usually been able to recover in winter. But this time it's different, with levels taking a sharp downward turn at a time of year when sea ice usually forms reliably — and...

Activists say the Paris agreement will be "on the verge of collapse" if rich countries don't commit to paying poor countries for devastating climate-related losses.

Rising evidence is pointing to the possibility that leprosy has become endemic in the southeastern U.S. with Florida being named at the top.

Living in Sri Lanka during the end of the civil war, I saw how life goes on, surrounded by death

Emperor penguin chicks at four out of five colonies in Antarctica did not survive the spring of 2022, prompting fears for the animal’s future.

Wherever you look, the earth is in flames. The residue is carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, black carbon,...

It's California agriculture versus Las Vegas and Phoenix subdivisions in a battle for the Colorado River as the American West faces a water crisis.

Wildfires in Canada and Hawaii. Hurricane Hilary set to strike California. Scientists have warned about worse storms and more frequent fires for years.

The scientific evidence is clear: the only celestial body that can support us is the one we evolved with. Here’s why

A 16-year-old climate change activist could be responsible for a tripling of support for Austria's Greens party.

Exclusive: forest regrowth can reabsorb emissions from fires but scientists fear natural carbon ‘sinks’ have been compromised

An analysis by Media Matters found that the NBC, ABC, and CBS morning shows devoted 212 minutes to Bezos’ little jaunt. In comparison, those same shows spent 267 minutes covering climate all of last...

The top 10% of polluters — the climate equivalent of anyone earning more than $38,000 a year — produce carbon emissions that are more than four times the global average.

Scientists increasingly agree on how much warming the planet will experience. This is what it might look like.

Stop slobbering over Andrew Cuomo already

Floods have devastated two-thirds of Slovenia. Many villages are cut off from the outside world. The Balkan country is struggling with the worst natural disaster in its history.

The NEJM has published a horrifying account of a health-care executive trying to evade what appear to be mafia tactics by the federal government.

The planet has already passed the point when aggressive climate action could have stopped the planet from getting warmer. Now the goal must be to keep the problem from getting worse — and to protect...

Much of the concern about climate change is around the idea of “the big impact,” a single, colossal disaster that dramatically impacts everyone on the planet, much like the scenario depicted in the...

Scientists who study glacier ice have found viruses nearly 15,000 years old in two ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China. Most of those viruses, which survived because they had remained...

Major insurers say they will cut out damage caused by hurricanes, wind and hail from policies underwriting property along coastlines and in wildfire country.

The dismal reality is that green energy will save not the complex web of life on Earth but the particular way of life of one domineering species.

This summer's string of record-breaking disasters is a window into the future.

António Guterres tells governments ‘half of humanity is in danger zone’, as countries battle extreme heat

Harvard’s Kimmie Ng among gastrointestinal specialists hunting culprit behind global disease wave.

Many credits in the voluntary market going unused, with study finding some offsetting could make global heating worse

Link to climate activism is seven times stronger for anger than it is for hope, say Norwegian researchers

North America’s strongest recorded earthquake struck just off the Alaskan coast at 5:36 p.m., on March 27, 1964. The shaking from the magnitude 9.2 quake lasted an unimaginable four and a half ...

Governments across region grappling for response as temperatures soar to unseasonable highs

Driving is not just an air pollution and climate change problem. Turns out, rubber particles from car tires might be the largest contributor of microplastics in California coastal waters, according...

Extreme weather is ‘smacking us in the face’ with worse to come, but a ‘tiny window’ of hope remains, say leading climate scientists

The last decades have been filled with dire warning signs from forests. Global warming has contributed to thinning canopies in European forests and to sudden die-offs of aspen trees in Colorado, as...

New data shows Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier could collapse in as little as five years and lead to catastrophic sea level rise.

Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia led his party and his president through months of tortured talks, with nothing to show for it as the planet dangerously heats up.

Vast numbers of emperor penguin chicks drown as sea-ice melts and collapses underneath them.

If you think it’s bad now, strap in.

Pollution from the plastics industry is a major force behind the heating of the planet, according to a new report from the federal government. The industry releases about four times as many planet-…

Our Planet is Changing in Profound, Terrifying, and Visible Ways Now. But We’re Still in Denial About What It Means.

The vaccines work very well, but current public-health communications may be understating the frequency of infections among the vaccinated.

The results offered an insight into how voting changes once climate change becomes a ‘now’ problem: it doesn’t

A sobering new study finds that the world's biggest industries burn through $7.3 trillion worth of free natural capital a year. And it's the only reason they turn a profit.

Why the world’s most prominent climate activist remains disappointed with people in power.

A wildlife scientist said it seemed that "something else is going on that we just don’t know."

The Global North can help Pakistan by taking responsibility for the losses and damage of extreme weather fueled in part by the burning of fossil fuels.

By far the fastest energy change in history is underway, with around 400 GW of new solar and wind capacity to be added in 2023. 

Countries that moved quickly to widespread mask-wearing had much lower death tolls and shorter coronavirus outbreaks, a study argues.

A new solar desalination system takes in saltwater and heats it with natural sunlight. The system flushes out accumulated salt, so replacement parts aren’t needed often, meaning the system could...

Joe Manchin’s rejection of a compromise climate bill tells a familiar story: Voters and politicians put a higher premium on immediate issues, such as inflation and the economy, giving politicians a...

Vaccines should bring the end of the pandemic, but we’re bungling their distribution just as badly as the rest of our coronavirus response.

Today the rhetorical war has largely been won, but the outlook grows a lot more confusing when everyone agrees to agree.

A Stanford University professor whose research helped underpin the U.S. Democrats’ Green New Deal says phasing out fossil fuels and running the entire world on clean energy would pay for itself in...

Citizens could be fined for washing cars or watering gardens.

James Hansen, who testified to Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a ‘new climate frontier’

Exclusive: Activist says there are many fine words but the science does not lie – CO2 emissions are still rising

Companies are developing technology that sucks carbon dioxide out of the air. But scientists say it can't be scaled up fast enough.

As the barrage of bad news from places like Greece continues, all we can be certain of is there are many surprises lying ahead, says analyst Roger Harrabin