GLOBAL WARMING

The approach would allow Obama to sidestep Congress in joining a global pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Scientists studied an area covering over 35,000 square miles and discovered 570 methane vents at depths ranging from 50 meters to 1,700 meters.

Since 2000, the number of extreme weather events in the northern hemisphere have almost doubled, a study is claiming.

A massive earthquake that struck Chile in 2010 caused a series of "icequakes" thousands of miles away in Antarctica.

The waves were recorded in 2012 in the Beaufort Sea, an area north of Alaska.

Two new mysterious craters were found in Siberia, and geologists say they may have been caused by climate change.

New research foretells how the interaction between warming temperatures and air pollution will harm staple crops.

Wyoming's John Barrasso takes umbrage with the purported influence of “Hollywood elites” in crafting new EPA power plant rules.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott led a carbon tax repeal this week, signaling a disturbing trend for international attempts to curb emissions.

The Australian senate on Thursday passed a bill to repeal the carbon tax, scrapping a law introduced in 2012 by the previous government.

A White House climate change task force on Wednesday unveiled a slate of proposals to help localities prepare for global warming effects.

New York ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg, hedge-fund billionaire Tom Steyer and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson funded the report.

A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll on Wednesday found that more than two-thirds of Americans support the Obama administration's proposal to slash emissions from power plants.

Obama's climate change plan offers nearly $1 billion to help communities not just recover from natural disasters, but prepare for them.

Asthma, heat stroke, allergies and infectious diseases are all likely to increase.

President Obama briefed the other heads of the G-7 countries this week on his administration's latest climate action plan.

The Obama administration's new plan to curb carbon emissions from power plants could give a much-needed boost to the economically troubled U.S. nuclear industry.

A Vox post on Thursday morning ignited discussion around the Web about whether the United States--or the world--can do enough to combat the existential threat of global warming.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) introduced a bill on Tuesday that attempts to keep the EPA's latest power plant rules from taking hold.

Human activity adds roughly 7 billion metric tons of carbon to the environment every year.

Ancient buried soils rich in carbon could contribute to global climate change.