The Paris Agreement became a law Friday, but a U.N. report issued Thursday warns a lot more needs to be done to avoid potentially catastrophic increases in global temperatures.
Book publisher St. Martin’s Press said the book, “Overheated: How Cooler Heads Can Cool the World,” will offer “viable, concrete solutions” to deal with global warming.
A study has revealed that the Smith Glacier — one of the fastest-melting glaciers in the region — may have lost as much as 1,600 feet in thickness from 2002 to 2009.
The landmark ruling sets an important precedent that may allow climate change risks to be used as criteria for granting protection to other at-risk species.
In 2015, for the first time in over 3 million years, the average atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide was higher than 400 parts per million.
Halloween is around the corner, but it sure has not felt like Fall in most parts of the U.S.
A giant comet or asteroid that crashed 56 million years ago could have triggered the Earth's warming at the time, similar to today’s climate change, researchers said.
Habitat III will be held in Ecuador starting Oct. 17 as leaders attempt to solve rising populations.
Climate change is leading to more forest fires and more destruction.
A study found that man-made climate change, which results in high temperatures and aridity, has caused forest fires to cover an extra 16,000 square miles.
If global aviation were a country, it would rank as the seventh largest carbon emitter in the world.
A new study predicts an extreme dry spell, lasting 35 years or more, in the American southwest by the end of the century.
The accord will enter into force on Nov. 4, but will the actions pledged under it be enough to prevent a catastrophic rise in global temperatures?
The ratification paves the way for the agreement, which seeks to prevent a catastrophic rise in global temperature, to come into force later this year.
The agreement now has 62 countries that have ratified it, accounting for just short of an estimated 52 percent of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions.
The space agency has some valuable property in Florida that is pretty vulnerable to climate change.
The International Business Times caught up with Mary Rice, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston, to talk about the effects of climate change.
In September, when atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide are usually at their lowest levels, they remained stubbornly above the symbolic “red line” of 400 ppm.
According to a new study, Greenland lost about 2,700 gigatons of ice between 2003 and 2013 — 7.6 percent higher than previous estimates.
In the next five years, global warming is predicted to pose security threats to the U.S. in the form of extreme weather events and mass climate change-driven migration.
Critics say response to climate change should figure into oil company asset and reserves valuations.
Scientists at the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center, using satellite data from NASA, said the ice cover reached its minimum extent on Sept. 10, standing at 1.60 million square miles.