Climate

The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert, but parts of it could be made green if massive solar and wind farms set up shop there, a new study finds.

Ancient pollen fossils could help predict how climate change will impact global vegetation.

In a viral exchange, the Flat Earth Society confirmed it's not on board with rejecting anthropogenic climate change.

Thanks to climate change, extra heat has penetrated deep into the ocean. And underwater currents have pulled it north, where it's hiding under the Arctic ice.

Florida's got more than one problem bloom in its waters, and they're threatening to mix.

Old stones bearing ominous messages about dry years have resurfaced from within a river in Central Europe, according to an Associated Press report.

There's a chunk of hard ice north of Greenland that isn't there anymore.

New lakes formed in the melting Arctic could rapidly tap into deep reservoirs of ancient carbon.

The Mendocino Complex Fire, the largest blaze in California's history, releases clouds of smoke in new photos from NASA, and fires blazing over Canada are visible from a million miles away in space.

July 2018 was the hottest month on record in the state of California.

More than a century ago, scientists already knew that burning coal would cause global warming.

Plastics aren't just messing up the environment by clogging the oceans and piling up in landfills.

It's frightening how easy it would be to turn Earth into a steaming hothouse, experts say.

Flesh-eating bacteria will become more prevalent with climate change.

The hottest place in the U.S., Death Valley, was not left out of this year's record-breaking heat wave.

Could our current climate crisis have been averted?

And even those patches of pristine ocean are unprotected.

These exhausted flyers are running out of time.

A new paper argues that the apparent "pause" in climate change of the last decade might have resulted from a hidden global heat sink.