Climate

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.

A new paper proposes sucking carbon dioxide out of the air and turning it into gasoline. Can this really stop climate change?

Antarctica's iceberg B-15 will finally melt in the South Atlantic Ocean. Farewell, friend. It's been a crazy, 18-year ride.

The EPA must release evidence for Pruitt's claims that carbon dioxide is not a significant contributor to climate change, a federal court ruled.

Climate change probably killed off any aliens that might have existed, one study claims.

Scientists have found huge valleys linking the smaller West Antarctic Ice Sheet to the massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet, hidden deep under the ice.