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Western Europe recorded more than 10,000 excess deaths during an unprecedented June heat wave, an analysis finds. Last month was the hottest June on record in Western Europe, measuring 5.5…

July 13, 2026, 5:13 a.m. ET Georgia is experiencing sweltering heat with advisories across the southern part of the state. A northward shift in the jet stream has created a…

Marine animals shrink far more sharply during the planet’s hottest climate crises than during disasters of any other kind, according to a new study. The pattern extends back nearly half…

Pushing harder for climate action in one part of the world can quietly weaken it somewhere else, according to a new study. Using a model that splits the globe into…

George Monbiot suggests that we can solve climate change without carbon capture and storage (The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back, 8 July). Physics…

The rapid melting of the Swiss glaciers has reached worrying levels in the last weeks of June. This phenomenon has intensified under the repeated heatwaves that have affected Europe, generating…

Europe is discovering what Israel has long known: extreme heat is no longer an occasional emergency. It is becoming part of the continent’s new normal. The recent heat dome that…

July 12, 2026, 6:02 a.m. ET Get ready to pay more for your water. A lot more. In some parts of the U.S., mainly in the West, hotter, drier weather…

A new Stanford led study has provided the strongest evidence yet for why some marine animals survived Earth’s largest mass extinction while many others disappeared forever. The findings not only…

Image by Tuan Vy via Pexels Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) developed a new way of heating and cooling that used electrically…

Some people – and media organisations – still have difficulty connecting the heatwaves currently gripping much of the world and human-caused climate chaos. Others are in outright denial. So how…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The July 4 holiday weekend wasn’t just a scorcher — it was so…

Ever since the landmark Paris ’15 UN climate agreement wherein 195 nations agreed to cut fossil fuel CO2 emissions via NDCs 30% to 60% by 2030, the opposite has happened….

As governments convene in Bonn, Germany this week for the latest round of United Nations climate negotiations, a clear shift is underway. The era of setting long-term pledges is giving…

Ecologists and climate researchers have sometimes called it “natural geoengineering.” The idea is elegant in its simplicity: A forest can store anywhere from 10 to 1,000 tons of carbon per hectare…

H​​​ealthy Climate Communities is a nonprofit organization that promotes education on climate change, climate resilience and aloha ʻāina through field trips to its native forestry site and workshops in schools…

Stony Brook University researchers are using satellite images of Adélie penguin colonies and their guano to determine what they eat and how changes in sea ice are affecting the Antarctic’s…

It’s barely the middle of summer in the northern hemisphere, and heatwaves are once again breaking temperature records.  In the United States, dozens of cities sweltered through their hottest Fourth…

UNFCCC plenary room at the June climate meetings during the research dialogues, setting the scene for two weeks of negotiations. Jim Skea, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,…

As successive heatwaves hit Europe, air-conditioning (AC) has emerged as a new front in the international “culture war” over climate action. France, Germany and the UK have experienced record-breaking heat…

When Rebecca Lindsey was fired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) last February, the first thing she did was stew. Then she worried about what was going to…

France is not prepared for the pace and scale of climate change, the country’s climate watchdog warned in a report that calls for a significant acceleration of both emissions reduction…

This report is based on findings from a nationally representative survey – Climate Change in the American Mind – conducted jointly by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the…

The Trump administration has tapped a climate science critic — who describes himself as a “professor in exile” — to lead the nation’s climate change office, according to a new…

3 min read The Paris Climate Accords in 2015 set an ambitious (and necessary) goal of keeping global temperatures at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temps. But a study says…

Climate change will be at the center of a community conversation in Peekskill. On July 12, city residents will have the opportunity to attend The Real Crisis of Climate Change,…

Western Europe experienced its warmest June on record last month, according to data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), following an extreme heatwave that broke temperature records,…

Cracked and parched farmland reflects worsening dry conditions amid an El Niño alert raised by the weather bureau. — PHILIPPINE STAR/RYAN BALDEMOR Climate experts warned that a strong El Niño…

The New Zealand government has proposed legislation to limit the ability of individuals to sue companies for the impacts of climate change. Similar proposals in the U.S. may be the…

A new mathematical model suggests that social norms may be just as important as economics in determining how the world responds to climate change. The research shows that efforts to…