Since the Industrial Revolution—an event made possible by the use of fossil fuels in everything from power plants to transportation—Earth has gotten hotter. 2024 was the hottest year on record and the ...

A study says the coloring of microplastics can make a big difference in how much they heat up the Earth.

A new study finds that climate change is creating environments where humans have never successfully cultivated rice before.

Despite rapid progress in clean energy and electric vehicles, the world is still warming faster than ever. The good news is that we already have powerful ways to reduce the warming rate – if ...

Health problems tied to climate change are all getting worse, according to two reports published Wednesday. The annual reports commissioned by the medical journal Lancet tracked 44 global health ...

Few things in human history have mattered as much as rice. Not wheat, not corn, not any other crop comes close to what a ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Al Gore, where are you? We need a little help understanding why we need a cap and trade system to ...

Are you sitting down? Because there’s some news that might shock you. A recent study published in the journal Nature Climate Change has found that the richest 10 percent of the world population are ...

All of you deniers and flat-earthers who are exploiting the glacial temperatures and bizarre snowfall to mock global warming fears are missing the point: Weather isn’t the same as climate. Shoddy ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics are so small and lightweight they can be swept into the air, where they may be helping to heat up the planet, new research finds ...

There's a consensus among leading scientists that global warming is caused by human activity. What–if anything–should we do about it? JEFFREY BALL: Global warming is fundamentally harder than past ...