global warming

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said Monday that he plans to spend $10 billion of his own fortune to help fight climate change.

Climate change isn’t only a problem for future generations. It’s here, it’s now and it’s everyone’s problem.

Climate change is making stronger El Niños, which change weather worldwide and heat up an already warming planet, a new study finds. Scientists examined 33 El Niños — natural warming of equatorial Pacific that triggers weather extremes across the globe — since 1901. They found since the 1970s, El Niños have been forming farther to the west in warmer waters,...

Arnold Schwarzenegger says he wishes he could travel back in time like the cyborg he played in “The Terminator” so he could stop fossil fuels from being used. “If we would’ve never started in that direction and used other technology, we’d be much better off,” the actor and former California governor said Monday at the start of a U.N. climate...

The federal government’s National Climate Assessment says that climate change will unleash heat waves that make Chicago feel like Las Vegas, bring disease-carrying mosquitoes to Florida year-round, warm oceans enough to drive lobsters from Maine and more, NBC News reports. This version of the report, released over Thanksgiving weekend, gives many examples of the impact of climate change on the...

A senior U.S. diplomat says Washington will continue to take part in talks about implementing the Paris climate accord, despite President Donald Trump’s threat to pull out of the pact. Trump announced in June that the United States will withdraw from the 2015 Paris agreement unless he can get a better deal for the United States. Trigg Talley, the U.S....

A new global study says deadly heat waves will grow in frequency, intensity and duration, affecting 75 percent of the world’s population if greenhouse emissions are not reduced.

In a Wednesday afternoon appearance at the American Center for Mobility in Ypsilanti, Michigan, President Donald Trump promised to revisit federal regulations of fuel efficient cars and trucks set by the Obama Administration as part of their strategy to combat global warming. Trump also promised a “big announcement” in regards to the auto industry for next week.