International banks are financing the industry’s pivot to petrochemical products like plastics and fertilizers.

Much of the US just sweltered through the July 4 holiday weekend as an intense heat dome bore down, straining power grids and ...

New research shows that Earth's oceans are warming quickly. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with oceanographer Brad deYoung about the record-breaking rise in marine temperatures.

The combination of the photos, from 86 countries, selections from the international BarTur Photo Awards competition, and the music conveyed well the rapidly increasing calamity of climate change. The ...

Scientists have said the conditions are the result of a climate that is “fundamentally different” from the time before fossil ...

This paper estimates that the macroeconomic damages from climate change are an order of magnitude larger than previously thought. Exploiting natural global temperature variability, we find that 1°C ...

A pioneering climate scientist is challenging a U.S. government report that cited his research while reaching what he says is the exact opposite conclusion. Benjamin Santer and his colleagues say ...

Ocean warming triggered more than 200 marine impacts worldwide, many occurring in cooler months that monitoring programs often overlook.

What researchers don’t necessarily agree on is how quickly Europe’s climate shifted from one of cool, pleasant summers, ...

Since the early 1980s, Earth scientists have understood that erosion and weathering of rock slowly removes CO 2 from the ...

Freshwater ecosystems worldwide have been suffering from declining oxygen levels—a trend known as deoxygenation—that ...