global warming

If we stop burning fossil fuels cold turkey, the planet’s temperature crisis may stabilize within a few years, says climatologist and geophysicist Michael E. Mann. He joins LX News to give a reality check about our dangerous climate crisis and explain what humans can still do to prevent a catastrophe.

A new study finds that hurricanes are staying stronger longer after striking land than they did decades ago, and that means more destruction inland

In the wake of heat waves, global warming, forest fires, storms, droughts and a rising number of hurricanes, the U.N. weather agency is warning that the number of people who need international humanitarian help could rise 50% by 2030 compared to the 108 million who needed it in 2018

An icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international effort to study the high Arctic has returned to its home port in Germany

Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., discussed how their respective administrations would combat climate change. Pence was specifically asked if he believed climate change was real, and Harris was asked if she supported the Green New Deal.

In a year of cataclysm, some world leaders at this week’s annual United Nations meeting are taking the long view

A new satellite study finds that Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice in a record melt last year

The U.N. weather agency says the world could see average global temperatures rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average for the first time in the coming five years

A Siberian town with the world’s widest temperature range has recorded a new high amid a heat wave that is contributing to severe forest fires.

This year is on track to be one of the warmest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which also announced Thursday that last month had tied the previous record for the warmest May in recorded history.

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.