A new study found that the proportion of people being diagnosed with lung cancer who have never smoked is increasing, and air pollution may be a leading cause.

The data is in and 2024 exceeded climate guardrails meant to limit the chance of catastrophic impacts.

Mount Tambora in Indonesia 1815 was the planet’s last massive eruption and it ushered in global disaster. Scientists warn the world may be due another and it is not prepared

NASA has announced that the world as we know it may be facing significant existential threats, lining up with physicist Stephen Hawking's prediction.

The axis of Planet Earth has tilted by 31.5 inches (nearly 80cm) and humans are to blame for this, according to a new study.

Mapping in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas off Alaska has uncovered a 1,640-foot-tall structure on the seafloor, but scientists say it's too early to determine the nature of the discovery.

President-elect Donald Trump’s victory is roiling the opening day of the global climate talks.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Authorities in India's capital and surrounding areas handed out fines to the owners of thousands of vehicles and construction sites for infringing pollution rules, in a bid to counter a slump in air quality during the last three weeks. New Delhi is the world's most polluted major city, Swiss group IQAir said in its live rankings. Almost 60,000 vehicles and more than 7,500

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County is taking on Pepsi and Coke for their role in plastic pollution. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, the county alleged PepsiCo and Coca-Cola companies have misled the public about the recyclability of their plastic bottles and downplayed the negative environmental and health impacts of plastic disposal. “Coke and Pe...

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Failing to curb emissions of nitrous oxide will make it impossible to meet the main goal of the Paris climate agreement to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to the first major global assessment of the pollutant released on Thursday. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT Nitrous oxide is the third most prevalent greenhouse gas and the worst

Global warming during the Last Interglacial period caused so much Arctic ice to melt that Atlantic currents collapsed — and scientists say these are the conditions we could be heading toward.

The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it's happening right now.

Hurricane Kristy is forecast to continue strengthening Wednesday as it remains away from land, according to the National Hurricane Center.

“Climate change comes with irreversible consequences.”

The Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg has told the US cable host its biggest threat is not the climate crisis, but do his claims stack up?

More than 15 million people are under fire weather alerts in California -- from Redding to Sacramento to San Francisco to Burbank -- due to dry and windy conditions.

According to the National Hurricane Center, Oscar is now expected to possibly bring hurricane conditions to portions of the southeastern Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands and Cuba during the next 36 hours.

Insufficient rainfall in 2023-2024 has taken a toll on the region’s rivers and groundwater and upended daily life in several countries.

The mass bleaching that started in February 2023 is now the most extensive on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told Reuters this week.