You asked Somini Sengupta, our international climate reporter, about the science and the politics. She responded from COP30 ...

The essence of the Paris climate agreement was distilled into a single number. The almost 200 countries that signed the pact in 2016 agreed they would try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees ...

A special report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) referred to climate change as “a change in the state of climate defined by changes in the mean and/or the variability ...

Extreme weather is, by definition, rare on our planet. Ferocious storms, searing heatwaves, and biting cold snaps illustrate what the climate is capable of at its worst. However, since Earth’s climate ...

It’s hard to have meaningful conversations around climate when it’s hard to even define “climate.” When I use the term “climate,” to me it’s everything living on Earth and how it’s interconnected — ...

More than half of adults see climate change as a major threat to the country's well-being, but most states don’t require children to learn about it in school. New Jersey, Oregon, Connecticut and ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Citizens without a physical science background naturally find it hard to know what to believe about the claims put forth by those who believe in a ...

A Feb. 21 letter argued weather is not climate ("Cold weather doesn't disprove climate change"). But climate is defined as "weather averaged over a period of time," so the weather this year, by ...

We all know it’s hot — and getting hotter. According to NOAA and NASA, the 10 warmest years globally since 1850 have all occurred in the past decade. In less than 200 years, when the Industrial ...