A team of researchers at the University of Arizona in Tucson found that trees may do more harm than good in fighting climate change.
Energy companies, including Shell, BP and Chevron, have been asked to respond to allegations that their carbon emissions violated the rights of millions of people in the Philippines.
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.
Here's a glimpse of the environmental issues a handful of countries are grappling with as 2016 shapes up to be the hottest year on record.
Cloning 300-foot-tall trees can help fight climate change, a group of arborists believe.
The average temperature for every month in 2016, except March, was higher than in any year since reliable record-keeping began, according to NASA.
Between 2011 and 2013, about 60 miles of the underwater forests are believed to have been wiped out by a marine heat wave.
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.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will host the presidents of the U.S. and Mexico in Ottawa for the first summit of North American leaders since 2014.
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.
Nearly 400 scientists have signed a letter asking President Barack Obama to leave the Arctic Ocean out of a proposed oil and federal gas leasing program.
Respondents in nine of 10 European countries surveyed said they saw the militant group as the greatest danger, ahead of climate change and economic instability.
This year’s coral bleaching, the worst in the reef’s history, has adversely affected over 90 percent of the 1,400 mile structure, according to recent surveys.
The experiment could be the much-awaited breakthrough for scientists working to perfect carbon capture and sequestration techniques.
The 3-year-long campaign will help scientists ascertain how environmental forces affect coral reefs around the world, using state-of-the-art PRISM technology.
Last month, Arctic sea ice spread over an area of 4.63 million square miles — 537,000 square miles below the 1981-2010 average.
Scientists may be able to use Mars as a parallel to learn more about Earth and the possibility of sending people to the red planet.
Obama used the opportunity to talk about the importance of free speech and using art as self-expression during his trip to the country.