To understand the urgency of emissions reductions, policymakers and citizens need a full analysis of what is at stake.

Overturning the 2009 decision means billions of extra tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions over the next three decades.

Experts say withdrawing from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is a "strategic blunder" for the US.

While the U.S. sits in self-imposed isolation, the rest of the world, led by China, raced to build renewables and commit to climate action.

The Trump administration has renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, now calling it the National Laboratory of the Rockies, marking an identity shift for the Golden, Colorado institution tha...

Blocking the sun may reduce global heating – but ‘rogue actor’ could cause drought or more hurricanes, report finds

In The White House Effect, now available on Netflix, archival footage is used to show how the US right moved from believing to disputing the climate crisis

Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process

Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%

With the US government absent from the COP30 global climate summit, it will be up to others to avert catastrophe.

An AI analysis shows that climate deniers increasingly use charts, data visuals, and academic design to appear trustworthy. Researchers warn that fact-checking alone can’t counter the power of these d...

This study assesses the frequency with which climate-related disaster events affected counties with US drug production facilities.

As smoke from Manitoba wildfires prompts air quality warnings in four provinces, one expert says increased awareness on the impacts is necessary.

Research from the NIH’s National Cancer Institute, an agency beleaguered by funding cuts and censorship, finds that particulate matter pollution impacts lung cancer at the DNA level.

The White House, which was responsible for the assessments, said the information will be housed within NASA to comply with the law, but gave no further details.

The Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii has measured atmospheric carbon dioxide, which — along with other planet-warming pollution — has led directly to climate change, driving sea level rise, superchargin...

Rapporteur calls for defossilization of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms

Environmentalists are suing to stop the flow of 1,4-dioxane into the drinking water supply, which one local water utility found at concentrations 17 times higher than the EPA’s health advisory goal.

NOAA is a federal agency that provides "daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings and climate monitoring," among many other weather and ocean related things.

Air pollution represents a significant public health concern, contributing to approximately 6.7 million premature deaths annually. Among the various p…

Humidity will soon surge to extreme levels across 40 states. Find out where there will be excessive heat and humidity — and how humidity patterns are changing.

In 2025, around 24 million Americans are estimated to suffer from sleep apnea, and around 90% of these cases are undiagnosed. Now, a groundbreaking new study warns that this is going to rapidly increa...

Researchers listen to “music” made by stars, consider the heart risks of hot, smoggy days, and earn kudos in geoscience, public health, and systems biology.

With 2024 confirmed as the hottest year on record, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a stark warning: the climate crisis is also a health crisis – and it’s already claiming lives.

Extreme weather, rising temperatures and increased air pollution all threaten employee health — but executives and finance teams may not be paying attention.

The 320 climate projects analysed were found to have potential yields of about €1 trillion in projected returns over a decade.

Federally funded research by JHU epidemiologist Jaime Madrigano aims to identify neighborhood characteristics and behavior patterns that increase vulnerability to heat

As devastating wildfires continue to increase throughout North America, the American Lung Association and Canadian Lung Association are collaborating for a second year to raise awareness about the hea...

Young people need high-quality, solutions-focussed online science resources to help them understand climate change and feel inspired to develop solutions.

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Women who live in countries most vulnerable to climate change are at the greatest risk.

More than 25 leading medical, public health, and environmental health organizations released an open letter highlighting the health impacts of climate change.

Georgetown, Guyana 27 May 2025– In a significant step toward strengthening the country’s response to climate change, the Ministry of Health, Guyana, in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organ...

Two major scientific societies say they will try to fill the void from the Trump administration’s dismissal of scientists writing a cornerstone federal report on what climate change is doing to the Un...

President Trump has dismissed hundreds of scientists working on the congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment, raising concerns about whether the void will be filled with pseudoscience

Médecins Sans Frontières Australia (MSF) and Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) have written an open letter to all federal election candidates, calling for climate action to protect human hea...

The climate crisis poses profound risks to women particularly during pregnancy. With rising global temperatures and increasing frequency of extreme weather e...