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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Work has been halted on the next National Climate Assessment, according to an email from the Trump administration, dismissing the more than 400 volunteer scientists and scholars who were its co ...

A climate protester was seen spray-painting "USA" over a presidential plaque inside Trump Tower in New York City on Wednesday afternoon. Nathaniel Smith, 36, a Brooklyn resident, was arrested over ...

Climate change now poses the most widespread threat to ESA-listed species in the United States, affecting 91% of imperiled species and surpassing other drivers of biodiversity loss.