The prospect of searing heatwaves driving holidaymakers to cool mountains and children asking grandparents about their memories of snow is focusing minds in Alpine ski resorts on the implications of climate change.
Record temperatures across much of the world over the past two weeks could make July the hottest month ever measured on Earth, according to climate scientists.
Even as they tout their sustainability credentials, the majority of corporations still aren't transparent about the deforestation in their supply chains.
Global warming will lead to a significant increase in the frequency and severity of extreme heat across the contiguous states, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists.
"It has never happened before," is a sentence that is becoming excessively common in the news due to a changing climate where new extremes are becoming normal.
Superior Court Justice Gary Morrison delivered his ruling Thursday, emphasizing that the cause of environmental protection was of undoubted importance but raising doubts about the nature of the class seeking damages.
Rising ocean temperatures, a consequence of climate change, are known for bleaching and killing corals. But a study, published today in Marine Biology, reveals another overlooked culprit: excess nitrogen.
The Government Accountability Office found that the administration “did not consistently ensure” that appointees to E.P.A. advisory boards met federal ethics requirements.
There's no official clinical diagnosis, but the psychiatric and psychological communities have names for the phenomenon of worrying about the Earth's fate: “climate distress," “climate grief," “climate anxiety" or “eco-anxiety".
More than 2 million people in and around Zimbabwe's capital city, Harare, are currently without access to municipal drinking water, the result of a years-long drought and high water pollution levels.
As warming waters and acidification threaten corals around the world, scientists are gathering clues to save the charismatic colonies and bolster biodiversity
