New research spotlights the challenge of growing food on a warming planet. Two recent studies — one historical and the other forward-looking — examine how rising temperatures have made and could continue to make agricultural production less efficient ...

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) asteroid slammed into Earth tomorrow, it would render the ...

Eight pairs of eyes scanned the desert brush through binoculars for signs of life. Without notice, a flash of bright yellow quickly materialized, seizing attention — and raising eyebrows. This mixed-age group of voracious birders had stumbled upon something people don’t ever see at Clark County Wetlands Park: a Cape May warbler,

Here in Arizona, 2025 was our second hottest year on record — with 122 days above 100 degrees and higher nighttime and winter temperatures as well.

Trillions of dollars spent to fight climate change are being wasted worrying about meaningless, metric: global mean surface temperature

On Wednesday night, President Trump announced that the U.S. would be withdrawing from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a landmark global treaty that sets a legal framework for international negotiations to address climate change.

Rising levels of carbon pollution have been causing summers to heat up for decades. The season has warmed since 1970 in 97% of 242 U.S. cities analyzed by Climate Central. And summers will only become hotter as heat-trapping pollution continues — meaning ...

The International Court of Justice issued a landmark advisory opinion in July 2025 declaring that all countries have a legal obligation to protect and prevent harm to the climate. The court, created as part of the United Nations in 1945, affirmed that ...

This story is a collaboration between Vox and Grist and builds on Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis, a project by Vox, Grist, and The 19th that examines how climate change impacts reproductive health — from menstruation to conception to ...

Cities can adapt to climate change without starting over by pairing rebuilding decisions with cleaner, more resilient design.