As greenhouse gas emissions surround the Earth, they trap the sun’s heat. Because of this, the planet is warming up, and the ...

Feb. 8, 2012 — -- Are we "doping" our atmosphere? What's going on with these record warm temperatures… extreme snowfall… even January tornadoes? Is climate change the cause? Or more appropriately ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Eccles writes about sustainability in the capital markets. In a previous post, I argued that we need a new American ...

The terms ‘global warming’ and ‘climate change’ are often used by people interchangeably but they vary in different aspects that have the same base which is environmental issues. Thus, the environment ...

Below the sparkling, turquoise waters of Florida Bay are plants that don’t always get the credit they deserve. South Florida’s seagrasses filter water, absorb carbon dioxide, house small marine life ...

The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending. Is it? Reading time 8 minutes If a 60-mile-wide (100-kilometer-wide) ...

International collaboration on climate change is fraying. The Trump administration withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement, the 2015 treaty aiming to limit global warming, and has ...

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners inside NPR and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Eleanor Beardsley shares what it's like to report from Paris, which is experiencing extreme heat ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s chief advisers would include one person who calls global warming an “existential” threat and some who don’t accept it as a problem at all. By Lisa Friedman ...

Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. In that dystopian novel, published in 1993 and set in the mid-2020s, the United States still exists but has been warped by global ...