Climate Change

Beneath the Arctic lie billions of barrels of oil. But as the international energy race intensifies, we wonder, how did all that oil get there in the first place?

Following the hottest June ever recorded, July 2019 may have been the single warmest month in history.

The worst day of melting was July 31, when 11 billion tons of melted ice disappeared into the ocean.

Heavy rainfall in December buried plants under a heavy layer of ice.

Heat that shattered records in Europe this week is on the move.

A new study shows that the ice at the bottoms of submerged glaciers could be melting 100 times faster than anyone thought.

From the 800s to the 1400s, about a dozen megadroughts struck the American Southwest, and all lasted longer than a decade.

The global climate is changing more now than at any point in the plast 2,000 years. The Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period were nothing like this.

Wildfires burning large swaths of Russia are generating so much smoke, they're visible from space, new images from NASA's Earth Observatory reveal.

"We know what's happening and what needs to be done," the haunting letter to the future reads. "Only you know if we did it."

Tons of snow made from seawater could stabilize failing ice.

Do you feel hot? Because it's been really, really hot.

Hot water is killing Florida's coral reefs. But it's not the only factor bleaching them white.

More than 80% of California's iconic Joshua trees are likely to die at the hands of drought and fire over the next 50 years — but there's still time to save them from extinction.

Greenland's ice sheet is sliding way more than previously thought, making it more vulnerable to a warming climate, according to a new study.

Was the planet ever as hot as it is today, when every month the globe seems to be breaking one high-temperature record after another?

Trump administration officials are removing references to climate change from U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) press releases, according to a ClimateWire report.

Want to help save the world from climate change? Then grab some seeds, or some seedlings, and start planting trees like there's no tomorrow.

For the first time in recorded history, Anchorage, Alaska, reached 90 degrees F (32 degrees Celsius).