Veerabhadran Ramanathan has laid the foundation for our understanding of how small particles and gases that accumulate in the atmosphere contribute to climate change. This knowledge is vitally ...

Courts are increasingly being asked to weigh in on countries' climate obligations - Copyright AFP/File INA FASSBENDER Courts are increasingly being asked to weigh in ...

A La Niña Watch has been issued by NOAA's Climate Prediction Center. But what does that mean for your weather? La Niña develops when sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean remain cooler ...

The world's food production faces an unprecedented crisis as rising temperatures begin to alter crop yields across the globe. Climate change may affect the production of maize (corn) and wheat as ...

WASHINGTON — The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced today awards totaling $4.9 million to fund five research projects that seek to ...

More frequent and intense storms, sea-level rise and extensive rainfall fueled by climate change mean the island nation is likely to be hit especially hard by this week’s storm. By Sachi Kitajima ...

We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around the world that was made more likely by human-caused climate change. Climate Matters is ...

Decking a live fir tree with lights and ornaments is an old Christmas tradition. But like any other crop, Christmas trees are already having to deal with the effects of a changing climate — and those ...

An outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease Eastern equine encephalitis started in Massachusetts last month, and now there are cases across the Northeast. The spread of this rare disease raises a ...