In cities around the world, trees are often planted to help control temperatures and mitigate the effects of the “urban heat island”. But while trees have been called “nature’s air conditioners”, in practice, scientists often have difficulty demonstrating their cooling properties.

Whenever I visit the Sahara I am struck by how sunny and hot it is and how clear the sky can be.

I have eagerly awaited the final season of Game of Thrones, and its strange blend of fictive medieval Britain, supernatural monsters and pornography. 

Managed retreat in the face of sea level rise will be a mixed bag, researchers predict.

According to a recent major UN report, if we are to limit temperature rise to 1.5 °C and prevent the most catastrophic effects of climate change, we need to reduce global CO? emissions to net zero by 2050. 

Scientists have been making projections of future global warming using climate models of increasing complexity for the past four decades.

After one of the hottest years on record, Sir David Attenborough looks at the science of climate change and potential solutions to this global threat.

You might find your car dying on the freeway while other vehicles around you lose control and crash.

Supporters of the Green New Deal are launching a nationwide tour Thursday to build support for the congressional resolution to transform the U.S. economy through funding renewable energy while ending

As the push for the Green New Deal builds momentum in the United States, The Intercept has released a short illustrated video imagining a future shaped by the progressive environmental movement.

Many of us think that rapid environmental change is a quintessentially modern crisis.

The Sierra Nevada mountain streams that naturalist John Muir extolled are now in peril, research finds.

The only explanation for why heat waves affected so many areas over several months last summer is climate change, according to new research.

Search online for “climate change” and “tipping points” and you’ll find some scary results.

Nearly half a billion more people could be at risk for contracting mosquito-borne diseases in the next 30 years as a result of climate change.

Flooding in the Midwest, triggered by an intense “bomb cyclone,” has devastated parts of the region, which has been plagued by flood events in recent decades.

The school climate strikes show that young people want to fight climate change, but their enthusiasm for collective action is largely untapped.