Climate

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.

Residents of a small town on Greenland's western coast were evacuated after a giant iceberg parked itself nearby.

An entire year has passed since a Delaware-size iceberg broke away, in dramatic fashion, from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. But it hasn't traveled far.

A region in the Arctic Ocean is undergoing a historic identity crisis.

A new study confirms that the gloomy octopus has expanded its population range to the south, and it's doing great thanks to climate change.

The ground under Antarctica's ice is on the move, rising more rapidly than ever recorded.

Trillions of tons of ice melted away from Antarctica during the past 25 years.