Residents of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory, are no strangers to tropical cyclones, but climate change is supercharging storms and disrupting education on the islands.

Al Gore’s climate documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” arrived in theaters 20 years ago, in May 2006. The film had a profound effect on the public’s awareness and understanding of climate change, a ...

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Seven of the top 11 highest-volume precipitation events over the past 77 years have occurred just in the past 10 years.

Freshwater flooding has caused over half of all direct hurricane deaths since 2013. The threat will increase as climate change makes hurricanes wetter and potentially slower-moving.

To protect its coral reefs, Indonesia struck a deal with the U.S. to turn $35 million of debt into conservation funds. Nonprofits can also facilitate debt-for-nature deals. Recently, for instance, the ...

Staff and volunteers sort through trash, recycling, and compost bins to minimize what’s sent to the landfill. And Infurna says some fans are so committed that they’ve formed an independent group that ...

Steve Held of Broadus, Montana, comes from a long line of ranchers going back to the late 1800s. Held: “We do love the lifestyle. People who do it for a living have to love it, but it’s not because it ...

C. Mark Eakin is the former head of Coral Reef Watch at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In a new study, he and his colleagues found that a 2014 to 2017 heat wave caused moderate ...

Keeping food out of landfills prevents it from breaking down into methane, a powerful climate-warming gas. And dried produce is lighter than fresh produce, so shipping it is cheaper and uses less ...

A Category 4 hurricane making direct landfall on New York City could cause as much as $500 billion in insured damage.

Transcript: If you use social media, you’ve likely seen heated online arguments, outrageous posts, or conflicting news about climate change. McCharen: “It’s just very preval ...