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 ...

The essence of the Paris climate agreement was distilled into a single number. The almost 200 countries that signed the pact in 2016 agreed they would try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees ...

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 ...

It’s hard to have meaningful conversations around climate when it’s hard to even define “climate.” When I use the term “climate,” to me it’s everything living on Earth and how it’s interconnected — ...

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 ...

Since the Industrial Revolution, the United States has warmed by roughly 2°F. As temperatures rise, climate change is ...

Ocean heating leads to intense marine heatwaves that can be extremely harmful for marine ecosystems, especially on ocean surfaces. A study from the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA ...