Global warming

Politicians and weather forecasters have been shocked at the ferocity of the precipitation that caused flash flooding that has claimed more than 150 lives this week in Western Europe

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Satellite video shows the ice shelf holding the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica back from the sea is breaking up much faster than before

The Pikachus are part of “No Coal Japan,” a coalition of 35 environmental groups seeking to stop the usage of coal as an energy source.

Philadelphia Gas Works announced a plan to replace decades-old pipes buried across the city to stop harmful methane gas from bleeding into the air.

More than one-third of the world’s heat deaths each year are due directly to global warming, according to the latest study to calculate the human cost of climate change. But scientists say that’s only a sliver of climate’s overall toll — even more people die from other extreme weather amplified by global warming such as storms, flooding and drought...

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to phase down production and use of hydrofluorocarbons, highly potent greenhouse gases commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners

America’s climate summit propelled the world forward on a path toward limiting the worst of global warming

President Joe Biden is including rivals Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China among the invitees to the first big climate talks of his administration

Summers in the Northern Hemisphere could last nearly six months by the year 2100 if global warming continues unchecked, according to a recent study that examined how climate change is affecting the pattern and duration of Earth’s seasons. The study, published last month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, found that climate change is making summers hotter and longer while...

President Joe Biden’s climate adviser said the deadly winter storm that caused widespread power outages in Texas and other states is a “wake-up call” for the United States to build energy systems and other infrastructure that are more reliable and resilient in the face of extreme-weather events linked to climate change

The extreme winter weather that left residents of Texas and other Southern states shivering through an unseasonal cold spell is testing President Joe Biden’s disaster management skills

Five years after the historic climate deal in Paris, world leaders are again meeting to increase efforts to fight global warming

If we stop burning fossil fuels cold turkey, the planet’s temperature crisis may stabilize within a few years, says climatologist and geophysicist Michael E. Mann. He joins LX News to give a reality check about our dangerous climate crisis and explain what humans can still do to prevent a catastrophe.

A new study finds that hurricanes are staying stronger longer after striking land than they did decades ago, and that means more destruction inland

An icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international effort to study the high Arctic has returned to its home port in Germany

Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., discussed how their respective administrations would combat climate change. Pence was specifically asked if he believed climate change was real, and Harris was asked if she supported the Green New Deal.

In a year of cataclysm, some world leaders at this week’s annual United Nations meeting are taking the long view

A new satellite study finds that Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice in a record melt last year

The U.N. weather agency says the world could see average global temperatures rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average for the first time in the coming five years