As climate change leads to a seemingly endless stream of weather disasters around the world, countries are struggling to adapt to the new reality. Preparing to better withstand hurricanes, floods, ...

Fossils are puzzles from the past. They also give us clues to the future. “We have to go back to the geologic past and study ancient climate warming events and see how organizations responded to those ...

What would be the price tag for shielding the Earth from global warming using a chemical cloud? It might be just $1 billion to $3 billion, making a sun-reflecting project much cheaper than combating ...

Choosing Google’s Mountain View, Calif. campus as the venue for another big federal cleantech announcement, Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu launched a $151 million round of government grants ...

Global warming, a topic that’s simultaneously about science and politics. The media loves to spin a nice, tidy solution: stop burning fossil fuels, cut CO2, and voilà — problem solved! Except, there’s ...

For decades, Earth’s forests, wetlands and soils quietly mopped up a huge share of the carbon pollution from cars, power plants and factories. Now that natural brake on global warming is faltering ...

Human-caused global warming has been increasing faster and faster since the 1970s. Global average temperature compared with the middle of the 20th century 2010 to present +1.0°C 1970 to The world is ...