Climate change is the long-term shift in the Earth's average temperatures and weather conditions. The world has been warming ...

International collaboration on climate change is fraying. The Trump administration withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement, the 2015 treaty aiming to limit global warming, and has ...

The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending. Is it? Reading time 8 minutes If a 60-mile-wide (100-kilometer-wide) ...

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners inside NPR and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Eleanor Beardsley shares what it's like to report from Paris, which is experiencing extreme heat ...

Click the downloadable graphic: What is attribution science? Humans have increased Earth’s temperature, mainly by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and methane gas. The resulting heat-trapping ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Rising temperatures increase storm severity and drive denser raincloud formation. North Carolina faces growing flood risk as extreme ...

This is part of the Disaster 101 toolkit, a comprehensive guide to extreme weather preparation, response, and recovery. Extreme weather seems to make the headlines almost every week, as disasters ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Climate change is affecting global wind patterns in multiple ways, many of which have direct implications for human health. Worsening sand and dust ...

Climate change doesn’t just pose an existential threat to our planet. It’s also ratcheting up national security risks. With increasing food insecurity, resource scarcity and unstable borders, climate ...

Bill Gates thinks climate change is a serious problem but it won't be the end of civilization. He thinks scientific innovation will curb it, and it's instead time for a "strategic pivot" in the global ...

A new research initiative aims to shed light on just how much schools contribute to climate change—and what they can do so their buildings can withstand climate impacts and students can be involved in ...

More than 85 veteran climate scientists have pushed back against a Trump administration report downplaying the severity of climate change, submitting more than 400 pages in public comments to the ...