GLOBAL WARMING

It's the strongest storm the world has seen since Super Typhoon Haiyan destroyed parts of the Philippines in 2013.

Researchers found that higher temperatures associated with climate change increased the spread of diseases like avian malaria in the birds’ habitat.

By 2080, 20 percent of all lizard species could go extinct. Now, researchers have argued that this estimate may be too optimistic.

Over the past 40 years, driven by warming seas, typhoons in the northwest Pacific have intensified by 12 to 15 percent on average, according to a new study.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday that climate change scepticism is over “scientifically and environmentally.”

The U.S. has joined China in formally ratifying the Paris climate agreement, which only comes into effect once at least 55 countries ratify it.

Australian scientists have discovered a massive 2,320-square-mile reef behind the country’s famous Great Barrier Reef using laser data from the Royal Australian Navy.

In some regions of the Earth, 180 years of warming has caused the average climate to emerge above the range that was normal prior to the Industrial Revolution, a new study says.

Divers associated with the climate change advocacy group 350.org went underwater marking dead coral reefs, blaming the “reckless behavior of Exxon and fossil fuel companies” for the damage.

Rising temperatures and changes in humidity caused by climate change will severely affect the future of the Olympics, even limiting the number of viable host cities, according to researchers.

In his weekly address Saturday, the U.S. president pledged to continue his efforts to tackle climate change “in the weeks and months ahead.”

Aug. 8 is the “overshoot day” — a day when humanity’s demands on the planet exceed its capacity to regenerate resources.

Some fish have begun to adapt to the increasing acidification of oceans by permanently setting their body defenses at night-time levels.

Many U.S. military bases along the U.S. East Coast and Gulf of Mexico are at risk of permanently losing land to the ocean in the decades ahead.

The average temperature for every month in 2016, except March, was higher than in any year since reliable record-keeping began, according to NASA.

In an attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by companies and manufacturers, the state’s Air Resources Board sought to extend the four-year cap-and-trade program.

A new study has revealed that the inexorable rise in the planet’s temperature is leading to a marked change in the distribution of clouds all over the Earth.

A study led by the University of Oxford said that human-induced climate change caused the 2003 heat wave, and led to at least 70 percent of heat-related deaths in Paris that summer.

The hole 6 miles above Antarctica has shrunk by almost 2 million square miles compared to its size in 2000 thanks to the global ban on ozone-destroying chemicals, scientists said.

In a letter to the Australian prime minister, an international team of scientists said greater efforts are needed to protect the iconic Great Barrier Reef.

This is the first time in 4 million years that carbon dioxide levels at the South Pole have passed the symbolic threshold of 400 parts per million.