As climate change leads to record rainfalls, the city’s 120-year-old subway system is more vulnerable to flooding than ever.

Fast moving climate change is no longer a distant backdrop to daily life, it is reshaping the physical world in ways that ...

The jet stream, a warming Arctic, and loads of atmospheric moisture have contributed to an epic storm impacting 230 million people.

After yet another international climate summit ended last fall without binding commitments to phase out fossil fuels, a ...

Researchers say a line has been crossed. For systems like coral reefs and ice sheets, the climate is already past safe.

“[T]he questions posed by the General Assembly represent more than a legal problem: they concern an existential problem of planetary proportions that imperils all forms of life and the very health of ...

Tim Palmer is an emeritus professor of climate science at the University of Oxford, UK, and author of The Primacy of Doubt (2022). What does the science say: hoax, lukewarm inconvenience or ...

This Climate Matters analysis is based on open-access data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). See Methodology for details. More frequent and intense extreme heat — the ...

The Earth’s atmosphere is nothing but freely roaming molecules. Left alone, they would drift and collide, and eventually even out into a mixture that’s dynamic, yet stable and broadly unchanging. The ...

India is the world’s largest producer and consumer of milk. As of 2019, milk production in the country stood at 188 million ...