The climate scenario featured in the 2004 movie "The Day After Tomorrow" could be happening for real.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who does not believe climate change is real, took to Twitter Sunday to criticize President Obama's stance on climate leadership.
With the world’s attention focused on the Middle East and Europe, the leaders of small island countries have pointed to a separate burgeoning refugee crisis.
Melting sea ice due to warmer ocean temperatures, one of the effects of climate change, makes searching for oil and gas easier.
Twenty nations most vulnerable to climate change have joined to form the "V20" group, and urged immediate action on a "fundamental human rights issue."
India and Germany put trade ties at the center of a three-day visit by Chancellor Angela Merkel to the subcontinent.
The plan would allow the world's No. 3 polluter to see emission levels rise over time, but at a rate slower than they would under "business as usual."
British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that his government will provide $8.8 billion between April 2016 and March 2021 to countries most affected by climate change.
“As countries that are as vast as continents, we have this very important greenhouse gas emissions target," President Dilma Rousseff says.
A team of scientists has urged to immediately develop strategies to slow down the permafrost melting.
In 2013, just over 1,000 coal mines were operating, as cheap natural gas and weak global demand continued to take a toll on coal production.
According to a new study, Americans might be dumping more than twice as much trash in landfills as previous estimates suggest.
Eleven GOP leaders, led by Rep. Chris Gibson, have signed a resolution urging action on climate change, in a major break from the party line.
In a span of just four decades, global populations of marine mammals, fish, birds and reptiles have halved, a new study by the WWF revealed.
According to a U.N.-backed study, land degradation, soil erosion and desertification might displace 50 million people within a decade.
Many people on social media have begun blaming global warming for the poor health of some Arctic creatures.
Reports suggest that the U.S. and the EU have agreed to contentious provisions seeking to address weather-linked loss and damage in poor nations.
Climate change has the potential to irreversibly evolve the tiny set of microorganisms and could trigger damage to the associated marine food chain.
Weather agencies predict the evolving El Niño may turn into the strongest on record, bringing floods and drought to East Africa and devastating rural communities.
Australia will fail to meet its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets under current policy measures, according to a new analysis.
Researchers warn of "very dramatic and very fast" changes to the boreal forest cover, which accounts for nearly 30 percent of the planet's total forest area.
With July temperatures breaking previous records, 2015 seems on track to becoming the hottest year ever.