The mental health effects of climate change are receiving growing attention, including how children and young people are uniquely affected. Supporting young people to build and sustain good mental ...

The rate of global warming has surged since 2015 and is now nearly double what it was in the 1970s, according to a study 1 that tackles one of the hottest debates among climate scientists. Because the ...

Meteorologists are reaching for superlatives to describe an oncoming heat wave so intense and rare for this time of year that it could leave some locations shattering their all-time temperature ...

Scientists say recent extreme snowstorms are consistent with weather patterns shifting due to climate change. A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, which can lead to more intense precipitation, ...

New Englanders have been positively inundated with snow. After a string of mild winters, February’s record-setting blizzard dumped more than two to three feet of powder across Massachusetts and Rhode ...

The world remains “unprepared” for the risks of climate change, despite overwhelming evidence that the planet is heading towards irreversible damage. A group of experts has published a paper in the ...

Colorful houses on the coast of Greenland in Nuuk - Backyardproduction/Getty Images When most people think about climate change, their minds jump to increasing global temperatures, melting polar ice ...

As the planet warms, many expected ecosystems to change faster and faster. Instead, a massive global study shows that species turnover has slowed by about one-third since the 1970s. Nature’s constant ...

The consensus among the world's scientists is that greenhouse gases — including carbon dioxide and methane — are driving climate change, resulting in droughts, storms, heat and rising sea levels. It ...