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Independent experts have proposed a new set of targets to tackle climate change in Scotland over the next 20 years. Annual targets were abandoned by the Scottish government last year after ...
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CLIMATEWIRE | The Trump administration has reversed course and will restore U.S. Department of Agriculture websites related to climate change in response to a lawsuit brought by environmental ...
Priyanka Mahat is a research associate for climate change policy. Estimating the economic damage from worsening weather extremes is wickedly hard. By comparison, assessing the price of cutting the ...
Correction: A previous version of this Climate Shift Index Alert quoted the National Weather Service as saying “one of the most dramatic early-season temperature swings in state history ...
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.
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 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 ...
Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. After the Trump administration dismissed nearly 400 scientists ...
The compounding effects of climate change are changing the ways schools operate, as they cancel classes on days with extreme heat or when wildfire smoke is clouding the air and contend with ...
The Trump administration told scientists writing a congressionally mandated climate report that it was “releasing” them from their roles and that the report’s scope was being reevaluated ...
Even though Liberal candidate Mark Carney has a lengthy climate policy résumé, Trump’s threats have nearly drowned the issue out of the campaign. By Max Bearak The melting Arctic icecap.