Changing Climate

The Republican-controlled Senate has confirmed Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said Tuesday that they’ve moved their “Doomsday Clock” to 89 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been.

Even for homeowners outside of California, worsening extreme weather means higher insurance rates.

Less than a year since it launched, Extreme Weather Survivors keeps gaining new members as the U.S. faces more frequent disasters. The network provides support for survivors, but it also delivers unified support for climate action. National climate reporter Chase Cain introduces us to a couple who lost their home in the Eaton Fire.

The building industry is “by far” the largest emitter of greenhouse gases of any sector, according to the U.N.

Greenland, a vast but sparsely populated Arctic island, has been transformed by the climate crisis in recent decades.

During the period, costs for policies across all categories rose 8.7% faster than the rate of inflation.

In the wake of the Los Angeles-area wildfires, some U.S. residents seek safety from climate-related calamities.

The Supreme Court is declining to hear an appeal from oil and gas companies trying to block lawsuits seeking to hold the industry liable for billions of dollars in damage linked to climate change.

Many factors come together to cause massive, devastating fires. Two of those factors have especially clear links to climate change.

Although wildfires occur naturally, climate change amplifies their intensity and how quickly they can spread. Meteorologist Chase Cain explains two of the strongest links between climate change and the wildfire emergency in Southern California.

Global temperatures in 2024 soared to yet another record level, but this time it was such a big jump that Earth temporarily passed a major symbolic climate threshold.

The combination of high winds and dry conditions has created an incredibly daunting challenge for Los Angeles area firefighters.

The administration said it has submitted an application to withdraw about 264,000 acres of federal lands in the area from such leasing.

The Amazon rainforest staggered through another difficult year in 2024. A second year of record drought contributed to wildfires that worsened deforestation across the massive forest, which spans Brazil, Peru, Colombia and other Latin American nations and is a critical counterweight to climate change. There were some bright spots. Both Brazil and C...

Scientists say human-caused climate change added an average of 41 days of dangerous heat worldwide in 2024. The analysis from World Weather Attribution and Climate Central comes after a year likely to be the world’s hottest on record. The heat scorched everywhere from cities in North America to West Africa to the Acropolis in Greece and even ...