Boston's recent snowstorms have been part of a U.S. trend of cold winters in the East, record warm in the West. Credit: Getty Images

Weather dichotomy, which leaves two halves of the U.S. in opposite extremes, is a trend tied to climate change, new study says...

Himalayan ice cap from space. credit: NASA

One of the worlds largest ice avalanches ever recorded has flummoxed glaciologists. The slide contained about 100 million cubic metres of ice and rocks as it roared down a narrow valley killing nine herders and hundreds of sheep and yaks...

Kukumoni Munda, a resident of Koyra number 6, a coastal hamlet bordering the Sundarbans in southwestern Bangladesh, walks more than half a mile each day to fetch saline drinking water from a pond. "Fresh water costs 10 taka a day. I cannot afford it," she says. Image by Nikita Sampath. Bangladesh, 2016

In Koyra number 6, a coastal hamlet bordering the Sundarbans in southwestern Bangladesh, a group of men unload barrels of water from their trawlers—50 drums holding 30 liters each. They announce their arrival by yelling. And word spreads. This is how this village gets their daily drink of water, from a town 15 kilometers (approx. 9 miles) away...

The Mauna Loa Observatory atmospheric research facility has been measuring atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide since the 1950s. CREDIT: AP Photo/Chris Stewart

There’s no going back from this one...

During the first Clinton-Trump presidential debate on Sept. 26, Hillary Clinton accused Trump of believing that "climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese," and Trump interrupted to object. (The Washington Post)

Those who closely follow the problem of climate change are used to being disappointed by U.S. political campaigns and elections. After all, here is this massive global problem that, it seems, continually fails to gain major traction. Much of the country still denies it, non-science journalists seem afraid of it, and candidates have often not wanted to touch it. It notoriously did not come up in any of the 2012 presidential debates...

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Dean Scott, the senior climate change reporter for Bloomberg, moderated a panel discussion this weekend at the 2016 conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists. The topic at hand was the upcoming U.S. elections and what it means for climate change policy, particularly if Donald Trump wins the presidency...

Researchers use tools such as ocean sediment cores, seen here at a German storage facility, to help reconstruct past climates. Carmen Jaspersen/picture-alliance/dpa/AP

Suggests greenhouse gases may warm planet more than previously thought...

A man is silhouetted against the arctic sea smoke rising off Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois January 6, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Young

Fears that the coming winter will be as brutal as the polar vortex of two years ago has started a scramble in markets for natural gas, driving the primary U.S. heating fuel's price to 16-month highs...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, stands with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton before the first presidential debate at Hofstra University, Monday, Sept. 26, 2016. Image: Evan vucci/AP

After being totally ignored during the 2012 presidential debates, climate change was finally addressed on Monday night when Republican nominee Donald Trump squared off in his first debate against Democrat Hillary Clinton...

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Myron Ebell has long decried global warming “alarmism”...

A Caspian tern flies over the Sonny Bono Salton Sea national wildlife refuge near Calipatria, California. Photograph: David McNew/Getty Images

Researchers on north-west coast of Alaska startled to discover Caspian terns 1,000 miles farther north than species had been previously recorded...

A store on Tonle Sap in Cambodia. (Photo: Erica Gies)

Dams, overfishing, and pollution threaten Cambodia's Tonle Sap, the largest lake in Southeast Asia and one of the world's most productive fisheries...

The Madhouse Effect cover. Photograph: Columbia University Press

A new book by Mann and Toles explores climate science and denial with clarity and humor...

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Their discussion will be followed by the debut screening of DiCaprio’s National Geographic documentary Before the Flood...

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Big data gives environmental and resource managers an invaluable tool to increase efficiencies and better manage risk...

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The numbers on global warming are even scarier than we thought...

Scientists agree human activity like burning coal for power has changed the climate. (REUTERS/Jim Urquhart/File)

That's why we and 373 other scientists have written a letter about what's at risk...

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And possibly the hottest in “thousands of years”...

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Donald Trump believes climate science is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese to rob America blind, and he vows to try to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord immediately upon being elected president...