The Latest Breaking News on Climate change

Earth’s climate is changing rapidly. In some areas, escalating temperatures are increasing the frequency and likelihood of wildfires and drought. In others, they are making downpours and storms more intense or accelerating the pace of glacial melting.

Monsoon is India's lifeblood, bringing 70% of the rain needed to water farms and recharge reservoirs. Climate change is causing erratic monsoons, with delayed onset, prolonged dry spells and intense rains. To improve forecasts, models need to be improved and more data needs to be assimilated. Disaster management is also…

July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, the European Union's climate observatory confirmed Tuesday.

August 2003 saw nearly 15,000 people in France die from heat, more than any summer before or since. Twenty years on, the country is better prepared – but temperatures are rising. RFI looks at what the 2003 disaster can teach France about protecting the vulnerable from heatwaves.

Record low sea ice levels, the collapse of ice shelves, and surface temperatures 38.5C above average cited as concerns in new review

A new study concludes that Antarctica is already being and will continue to be affected by more frequent and severe extreme weather events, a known byproduct of human-caused climate change

Right now, people in coastal China are fleeing successive typhoons. Parts of the Philippines are awash.

Order was issued against the city of Sacramento after advocates called out the municipality for violating its own order

The price of electricity briefly spiked over 800% in Texas during the weekend as the South continues to be battered by this summer's extreme heat wave