When it comes to climate change, to invoke one of Al Gore’s favorite sayings, the biggest challenge is not what we don’t know, but what we know for sure but just isn’t so. Two new studies ...

Kristie L. Ebi ([email protected]) is a professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington, in Seattle. Jeremy J. Hess is a professor of environmental and occupational ...

The White House has begun a new effort to sue individual states over their climate initiatives and to stop lawsuits against fossil fuel companies. By Claire Brown and Karen Zraick In April ...

“I think that’s an even bigger danger that we’re facing with climate change — that it never becomes the problem.” One graph about lake-freezing data isn’t going to lead people to rank ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. Nearly 400 scientists across the United States were informed ...

The Trump administration sued to block two state laws designed to force oil companies to pay the costs of climate change. Several other states are joining the fight, too. By Karen Zraick Vermont ...

Climate scientists reveal that millions of today's young people will live through unprecedented lifetime exposure to heatwaves, crop failures, river floods, droughts, wildfires and tropical storms ...

When you think of threats from climate change, you probably envision flooding and wind from supercharged hurricanes, or unprecedented heatwaves. A survey of people in the US from late 2024 found ...

Climate issues took a back seat during Germany's election campaign. Is that likely to change under the incoming coalition government? With the war in Ukraine, high energy prices and a flagging ...

The Justice Department (DOJ) has filed lawsuits against four Democrat-led states: Hawaii, Michigan, New York and Vermont, over what it calls unconstitutional climate policies that threaten U.S ...

An analysis shows that large fractions of future generations will be exposed to extreme climate events that would occur only once every 10,000 years in the absence of global warming. By combining ...

The deadly storms that tore through eight U.S. states in early April, killing at least 24 people, were made significantly worse by climate change, according to a study released this week.