Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth’s climate has changed throughout history, causing a number of climate change impacts affecting human life and the ecosystem, ...

Bill McKibben is the author of “Here Comes the Sun” and founder of Third Act, an elder-led movement for climate action and democracy protection. I remember distinctly the first time I heard public ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Extreme heat can threaten human health, but it's only one way climate change puts lives at risk. Drew Angerer/Getty Images The U.S ...

How do you spur people to act on behalf of the environment? One tool: Use familiar language like “climate change.” Source: Walton LaVonda, USFWS/Pixnio “Just call it climate change.” That’s the ...

Story by Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison If you’ve been ...

Last year, Lee Zeldin, administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, stated: “We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion.” While in Munich recently, ...

Failure by the world’s financial leaders to support responsible forest finance will allow rampant deforestation to continue and contribute to the disastrous effects of climate change. WWF’s Global ...

Extreme heat can threaten human health, but it’s only one way climate change puts lives at risk. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The U.S. government formally recognized these risks in 2009 when it determined that ...

In the Marshall Islands, where the land averages only 7 feet (2 meters) above sea level, people are acutely aware of climate change. If the world fails to rein in the greenhouse gas emissions driving ...