The head of the environmental group Greenpeace has warned against efforts by countries and corporations at the forthcoming U.N. climate…
Thirty years ago, in its 1990 assessment, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that large-scale human migration…
The Paris Agreement works on a five-year cycle. Twice a decade, each country is expected to increase its ambition on…
Rich nations need to commit much more than $100 billion to help poor countries fight climate change due to their…
South Asia is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s population, and to some of the countries most vulnerable…
Ratan Pathuri watches floodwater swirl below his veranda. The swollen Dhansiri River has inundated Pathuri’s village, Nikori, in the district…
The frequency and intensity of lightning strikes have risen sharply in South Asia since the 1970s. So have fatalities, especially…
Racism, the climate crisis and the world's worsening divisions took center stage at the United Nations on Wednesday, a day…
World leaders need to take immediate action to limit climate change, restore biodiversity, and protect health, according to an editorial…
The southern winter that just ended in New Zealand was the warmest ever recorded, and scientists say that climate change…
China needs to expand its efforts to reduce carbon emissions to help hold back the rise in global temperatures, US…
Activists around the world on Tuesday called on governments to put food systems at the forefront of tackling the climate…
Asia’s largest freshwater reserve is disappearing. In the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, which is warming by 0.3-0.7 degrees Celsius above…
As the Earth warms, frozen water in its many forms is affected. In mountainous regions like the Hindu Kush Himalayas,…
Extreme sea level events that previously occurred once in 100 years could happen every year by the end of this…
Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that…
Thousands of people in Greece fled to safety from a wildfire north of Athens early on Friday, as firefighters waged…
It could be days before officials will be able to assess the damage done to a small town by California's…
Paul and Madeline Brasseur were at home with their two sons in the Belgian town of Pepinster when the water…
The death toll from devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium rose above 90 on Friday, as the…
Each day, more deaths are being linked to the heatwave that struck the Pacific Northwest this past week, with medical…
Hundreds of deaths in Canada, Oregon and Washington may have been caused by the historic heatwave that baked the Pacific…
An iceberg the size of the Spanish island of Majorca has broken off the coast of Antarctica, with measurements taken…
The United Nations COP26 climate action summit scheduled in Glasgow in November is the last chance for the world to…
Disease, the rich-poor gap, climate change and conflicts within and among nations will pose greater challenges in coming decades, with…
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