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Conservative pundits and right-wing Christian media figures have rejected the scientific consensus that human activity is fueling the warming climate and exacerbating extreme weather events, instead claiming that God controls the weather and attributing natural disasters to “demonic attack,” biblical prophecy, or a supposed...

At least 110 people have been injured after tennis ball-sized hail rained down on a region of northern Italy overnight Wednesday.

Scientists say the average temperature on Earth was 62.9 degrees Fahrenheit on July 4, the highest since at least 1979 and a sign of the worsening climate crisis.

Renewables and storage are saving Texans money as temperatures soar and coal and natural gas power plants fail.

This headline from the Washington Post is unlike anything we have ever seen before from a mainstream news publication. America is an inferno with heat waves in the South, smoke in the North Their alternative headline, depending on when you click on the...

Chris Gloninger, a TV news meteorologist in Iowa, got harrassing emails and a death threat over his coverage of climate change. Now he's leaving the industry to tackle climate change head-on.

Newly-discovered Shell documents dating back decades could help strengthen lawsuits aiming to hold the oil major to account for climate damages, climate attorneys say. Among the files, reported for the first time today by DeSmog and Follow The Money, and published on Climate Files, there is a 1970 industry journal article where...

The White House is cobbling together a program under existing powers to bring young people into low-carbon energy and climate resilience jobs.

Missing winter sea-ice signals changes in Antarctica that could be "absolute disaster for the world", scientists say.

Vast numbers of emperor penguin chicks drown as sea-ice melts and collapses underneath them.

PM becomes ‘dangerous radical’, in words of UN chief, by backing fossil fuels incompatible with net zero goals

Former head of Tel Aviv University Environmental Studies School: 'Something strange has been happening over the past few months, and it's scary'

Antarctic sea ice has usually been able to recover in winter. But this time it's different, with levels taking a sharp downward turn at a time of year when sea ice usually forms reliably — and experts are worried.

A modest proposal for naming climate-related events. Heat Domes Instead of naming a heat dome that's likely to kill large numbers of people, why not name the...

Opinion essay by the author who wrote The Uninhabitable Earth

The degrowth movement makes a comeback.

Simultaneous harvest failures across crop-producing regions are major threats to global food security. A strongly meandering jet can trigger these, however, climate and crop models underestimate effects with consequences for climate risk assessments.

[…] The tens of billions of chickens, pigs, cows, and other animals we raise and slaughter for food annually account for around 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from cow burps, animal manure, and the fertilizer used to grow the corn and soy they eat. More than one-third of the Earth’s habitable land...