Climate Change

California is launching a heat wave ranking system, but it’s unclear how well such efforts actually inform people about heat risks

During the first presidential debate, Biden alluded to the Inflation Reduction Act while Trump went on an incoherent rant about “H₂O”

Get a behind-the-scenes look at how researchers live and work on a U.S. icebreaker making its way through the waters of West Antarctica.

Climate-related highway fixes and electric and hydrogen fuel-cell buses are among the projects getting federal help in a new round of funding

Extreme wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity globally, data show for the first time

The Department of Housing and Urban Development long refused to pay cooling costs for public housing, but climate-change-fueled heat waves have underscored the public health need

Beneath the Antarctic ice, scientists find remnants of a giant river system that flowed for thousands of miles

Scientists recently discovered giant viruses infecting algal blooms that dot the Greenland ice sheet

A botched geoengineering experiment to limit the amount of sunlight hitting Earth hasn’t dimmed donors’ enthusiasm for funding the research

Melting glaciers are creating a green energy windfall in Iceland—but for how long?

With a heat dome baking the eastern U.S., emergency departments in New England and the Midwest have seen a spike in heat-related cases

To unravel the effects of melting sea ice, researchers drill the frozen waters around Antarctica and receive a surprise visit from a group of penguins.