Unprecedented wildfires in Canada and parts of Amazonia last year were at least three times more likely due to climate change and contributed to high levels of CO2 emissions from burning globally, ...

From sea levels to heat to greenhouse gas emissions, the Earth again “shattered” record highs in 2023, according to a closely watched scientific assessment of global climate trends released Thursday. ...

CLIMATEWIRE | Wildfires burned 1.5 million square miles of land around the world from March 2023 through February 2024, spewing 8.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. And ...

Matthew M. Wielicki will now oversee the nation's flagship report on the climate.

Matthew M. Wielicki has criticized the scientific consensus on global warming as alarmist. Now he’ll oversee a major federal ...

Vanishing glaciers. Newly ice-free stretches in the Arctic. Record droughts punctuated by record deluges. A hurricane, supercharged by hot Pacific water, that lasted six weeks. And across the globe, ...

Violent weather exacerbated by climate change fueled hunger and food insecurity across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, according to a new United Nations report. Extreme weather drove up crop ...

“All systems are flashing red,” Clea Schumer, a researcher at the World Resources Institute, one of the organizations involved in the report, said last week on a call with reporters. “There’s no doubt ...

A new United Nation’s report examines the costs and impacts of climate change, making drastic proposals to create new obligations and financial liabilities for countries and businesses in the name of ...