CLIMATE

This year’s vernal equinox occurs Wednesday, at exactly 11:02 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), or 7:02 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

Even if you live more than 1,000 miles away from the nearest metropolis, you could still be feeling the heat.

Last year was also the 36th consecutive year to register a global temperature above the 20th-century average.

Eastern European tree samples confirm that the recent warming in the region is outpacing any natural climate variations seen since the Middle Ages.

2012 saw a record-breaking loss of Arctic sea ice, the fury of Hurricane Sandy, and discoveries that illustrate Earth's fragile beauty.

The mysterious absence of climate change rhetoric during the 2012 presidential election may have been a serious omission after the results of a newly released poll from Rasmussen Reports found that an increasing number of American voters think global warming is a “serious problem.”

A heckler interrupted a Mitt Romney rally in Virginia earlier this week, asking the presidential candidate to address climate change.

Rivers and water systems along the East Coast have been hit hard by Sandy, with historically high storm surges and widespread flooding bringing a wave of pollution in their wake.

Hurricane Sandy prompted the mayor of New York City to get off the fence, endorse Obama and praise strides made on climate efforts.

So said Jill Stein, the Green Party's presidential candidate, who was arrested Wednesday at a protest in Texas against the Keystone XL pipeline.

Hurricane Sandy has severely damaged crops in Haiti, adding stress to the country's already insecure food supplies.

Global hunger levels have generally been decreasing, though they remain high in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and could get worse amid increasing scarcity of natural resources.

As climate change warms the world's oceans and Arctic sea ice recedes to its lowest -ever recorded levels, China has taken advantage of it -- and may soon reap commercial benefits

What do conspiracy theorists and free market ideologues have in common? They both deny climate change, according to a recent psychological study conducted b y the University of Western Australia.

Ground squirrels living near the Rocky Mountains are waking up from hibernation later as snowstorms keep falling later in spring, researchers found in a new study.

Monsoon rains will not be enough to save the country from its first drought in three years, the weather office said on Thursday as it forecast that the El Nino weather pattern should reduce rains again in the second half of the June to September season.

A study led by a former climate change skeptic concludes that man-made greenhouse emissions have contributed to the planet's rising temperature.

This year, Greenland's vast ice sheet is melting earlier and over a wider range than usual. That's just one sign that this year is shaping up to be a real scorcher.

Previous studies have pegged polar bear origin at around 600,000 years ago, but they've actually existed as a distinct species as early as 5 million years ago, according to a new paper.

President Obama's weekend statement on India , raising concerns over the invest climate in the country, has evoked sharp criticisms making it further hard for the Indian Prime Minister to go ahead with reforms.

A federal court has defended the Obama administration's unprecedented push to limit greenhouse gas emissions, laying down a marker in the debate over the limits of environmental regulation.