Climate Change

The UN's final IPCC report warns that drastic action must be taken immediately, but staving off disaster is within humanity's grasp.

Antarctica's sea ice recently shrank to its lowest extent since satellite records began more than 40 years ago.

Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, known as the Doomsday Glacier for the role its melt could play in global sea level rise, is melting more slowly than previously estimated, new research finds. But the glacier is still in trouble.

What animal species will survive projected future droughts, rising temperatures and habitat loss?

Earth's climate is warming dramatically, and the signs are all around us, from vanishing glaciers to zombie viruses awakening in melting permafrost.

Scientists are getting a better handle on how fast Greenland's ice is flowing out to sea. Old models that used Antarctica as a baseline were way off the mark.

Although models accurately predicted the evolution of the Arctic storm, scientists were surprised to see just how much sea ice thickness decreased in the storm's aftermath.

Researchers have isolated viable microbes from melting permafrost after tens of thousands of years. But don't worry; they infect only amoebas.

Sea levels are expected to rise around the contiguous U.S. faster than previously thought, a new NASA study finds.

Staving off the worst impacts of climate change means preventing global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. But CO2 emissions are so high that we are slated to cross that line within a decade.

A United Nations report warns of imperiled glaciers at iconic World Heritage sites — but climate action could save most of them.

The rapid decline of the British-Irish Ice Sheet thousands of years ago may hold lessons for how melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica will influence sea-level rise in the future.

As the planet warms due to climate change, North American migratory birds are shrinking.

Recent studies have linked climate change to environmental conditions that fuel hurricane season.

The subterranean structures could provide clues about how modern ice sheets will react to climate change.

A new study that reassesed decades of work of climate "tipping points" has revealed they are more numerous and closer to being triggered than researchers initially feared.

New satellite images capture the extensive flooding in Pakistan.

An unexploded WWII-era bomb was discovered in Italy's River Po as extreme drought lowers water levels across Europe.

Cameras on drones recently captured aerial images of nomad jellyfish as they swarmed by the thousands in coastal waters near Israel.

Polar bears are flocking to open landfills in the Arctic as climate change diminishes sea ice, a new study suggests.