When weather catastrophes hit, the big-ticket damages tend to come not from heat waves but from floods, hurricanes, and wildfires. Natural disasters caused billions of dollars…

The rewards of being right about climate change are bittersweet. James Hansen should know this better than most — he warned of this whole thing…

Sea-level rise may be the most predictable outcome of climate change. Expanding warmer waters and melting land ice both contribute to flooding – and scientists…

Damages from extreme events like floods are even more relevant than the mean sea level itself when it comes to the costs of climate impacts…

Just a few more decades of ocean warming would be enough to destabilise the relatively small region of ice by the Amundsen Sea − starting…

'What we call the eternal ice of Antarctica unfortunately turns out not to be eternal at all,' says lead author of new study A new…

As a historic heat wave ravages the Middle East and glaciers continue rapidly melting into the sea, a "thought-experiment" devised by German researchers has demonstrated—yet…

Scientists show that devastating increases in extreme rainfall over the last 30 years fit in with global temperature rise caused by greenhouse gases. LONDON, 13…

Leave it to  Pope Francis, a  Jesuit trained as a chemist, who has only one lung, to breath new life into a tired global environmental…

If you think your doctor is hard to understand, try talking to a climate scientist. In late 2014, the World Bank published a remarkable document…

The Gulf Stream is the weakest it's been in the last 1,000 years. And as glacier melt in the Arctic continues to accelerate, the foot…

The North Atlantic between Newfoundland and Ireland is practically the only region of the world that has defied global warming and even cooled. Last winter…