You asked Somini Sengupta, our international climate reporter, about the science and the politics. She responded from COP30 ...

A special report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) referred to climate change as “a change in the state of climate defined by changes in the mean and/or the variability ...

Extreme weather is, by definition, rare on our planet. Ferocious storms, searing heatwaves, and biting cold snaps illustrate what the climate is capable of at its worst. However, since Earth’s climate ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Citizens without a physical science background naturally find it hard to know what to believe about the claims put forth by those who believe in a ...

A Feb. 21 letter argued weather is not climate ("Cold weather doesn't disprove climate change"). But climate is defined as "weather averaged over a period of time," so the weather this year, by ...