The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

G-20 wrangling over climate change issues threatens to derail consensus ahead of leaders' summit; negotiations to continue in India.

The U.S. government’s most ambitious plan ever to slash planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles faces skepticism about how realistic it is and whether it goes far enough

A beloved bookstore in Vermont’s small capital city moved across the street to a new spot farther from the Winooski River after an ice jam sent river water into the store in 1992

Renewable energy use reaches a level ‘not seen in decades’ thanks to historic rainfall but scientists caution the trend may not be embedded

“After 1970, there is a consistently higher rate of large wave events,” said Peter Bromirski of the UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Temperatures in parts of Chile and northern Argentina have soared to 10°C-20°C above average over the last few days. Towns in the Andes mountains have reached 38°C or more, while Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, saw temperatures above 30°C – breaking its previous August record by more than 5°C. Temperatures peaked…

From holistic, philosophical texts to practical solutions

Tiny bark beetles have been causing havoc in Germany's Harz mountains, eating away at trees and killing off swaths of the spruce population by hampering their ability to take in nutrients

For more than 2,000 years, Hinduism, Buddhism and the shamanic Himalayan religion of Bon have venerated Shaligrams – ancient fossils of ammonites, a class of extinct sea creatures related to modern squids.