The main causes of climate change — particularly the rapid global warming observed since the pre-industrial period — are almost entirely driven by human activities that increase greenhouse gas ...

Learn how climate change occurs and why humans are causing it. CFR Education aims to build global affairs literacy by providing free, nonpartisan resources and programming to help high school and ...

Climate-driven extreme river discharge is projected to prolong and intensify coastal hypoxia, with stronger stratification and spatially uneven oxygen loss, suggests a study using an event-based ...

Imagine a snowball rolling down a hill. As it rolls, it picks up more and more snow, getting larger and heavier. The bigger it gets, the faster it rolls and the more snow it collects. Something ...

Extreme heat worsens underlying medical conditions such as respiratory and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, dementia and ...

The Treasury secretary said it is “difficult to deconstruct” the reasons for global warming, which he described as a belief of the “elite.” By Alan Rappeport and Lisa Friedman Alan Rappeport covers ...

More than 80 million people are under an Extreme Heat Warning or Heat Advisory through this week, according to the National Weather Service. Forecasters at the service's Weather Prediction Center ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has removed several mentions of human activity on a webpage related to the causes of climate change. Last week, the EPA quietly updated a page on its site ...

Investing more in the military is not a solution to climate change and may cost us our security, warn experts in The BMJ's climate issue. In the first article, Neta Crawford at the University of St ...

As environmental forces make fishing and harvesting more costly, the price of once-everyday fish has ballooned.