The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Hundreds of miles from the U.N. conference on climate change that wrapped this weekend in Belém, Brazil, scientists are ...

Discover how satellites gather critical weather data to help scientists predict the future of our planet’s climate. This video explains how space-based observations track storms, temperatures, and ...

Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds. One of the most ambitious projects humankind has ever undertaken has now ...

HOUSTON — The Texas Hill Country is still reeling after deadly flooding left behind a trail of destruction and heartbreak. Lives were lost and forever changed by a single storm. Scientists are now ...

Recent studies have indicated a potential transformation of the Sahara Desert into a wetter and greener region due to rising global temperatures. This outlook is based on analyses of historical ...

The lush greenery of the Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the planet,” but really land plants are just half of the equation. The other lung dwells in the sea. Single-celled ...

The Commerce Department has indefinitely suspended work on a tool to help communities predict how rising global temperatures will alter the frequency of extreme rainfall, according to three current ...

The chytrid fungus disease is responsible for global amphibian population declines, such as the endangered limosa harlequin frog shown above. Brian Gratwicke, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and ...

Hundreds of miles from the U.N. conference on climate change that wrapped this weekend in Belém, Brazil, scientists are conducting a first-of-its-kind experiment that could help future policymakers ...