The document is urging the world to zero out carbon emissions to prevent cataclysmic warming of the planet.

We now need to "face the inevitability of exceeding global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius." The post United Nations Concedes ...

The United Nations warns the world is very close to crossing a dangerous climate change threshold in a new report.

The flash floods in Nepal were only the latest in an accelerating series of disasters that have battered the Himalayas in recent years.

It proposed a new goal of limiting the “overshoot” of rising temperatures and eventually figuring out how to undo the temperature gains, a highly uncertain path.

As the senior climate editor at NPR, when extreme weather impacts us, I often send out guidance to the newsroom to help ...

When stormy seas batter Melekeok state on Palau’s biggest island, the Pacific Ocean floods right into people’s homes. “We ...

Ore., called on House lawmakers to pass a massive surface transportation bill on Wednesday, arguing the legislation was ...

A New York state law requiring major oil and gas companies to pay the state for their environmental impacts was blocked by a ...

Hot temperatures, fires and flooding are hallmarks of a warming climate in the Great Lakes region, brought on by humans ...

The Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming, the United Nations said.