To nobody’s surprise, all of the surface datasets showed 2016 to be the warmest year on record...

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Polls reveal clear majority of Americans back action to tackle climate change, despite new administration's promise to tear up climate policies...

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On the day that the Inside EPA report came out, an email from O’Brien popped up on my phone with “Red Fucking Alert” in the subject line. “We’re archiving everything we can,” he wrote...

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt sat down before the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee for his confirmation hearing as a nominee to run the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Senator John Barrasso, the Wyoming Republican who newly chairs the committee, opened the hearing with a number of compliments for Pruitt. Just after, the ranking Democrat, Tom Carper of Delaware, used his introductory remarks to say that he's never opposed an EPA nominee before, from either party, and strongly indicated that Pruitt wouldn't get his vote...

The politics of climate change … former US vice-president Al Gore in An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. Photograph: Courtesy of Sundance Institute

Politics looks set to overshadow Utah film festival’s 2017 edition, with a march by women film-makers, a documentary on Donald Trump’s presidential victory, and a slew of films on climate change. Then there’s Jack Black’s skit on polka...

In this Nov. 17, 2014 file photo, boat slips sit on the dry lake bed at Brown's Marina at Folsom Lake, near Folsom Calif. Global warming worsened the record drought in California. Rich Pedroncelli, Associated Press

Water will be central to how we, and the environment, adapt to climate change, says University of California professor Roger Bales, who studies climate adaptation and water security...

Weather stations in the U.S. that are having a warmer than normal, colder than normal and record hot year.

2016 was the hottest year in 137 years of record keeping and the third year in a row to take the number one slot, a mark of how much the world has warmed over the last century because of human activities, U.S. government scientists announced Wednesday...

The Petra Nova facility in Texas will capture more than 1 million tons of CO2 annually. NRG Energy

With carbon dioxide emissions continuing to rise, an increasing number of experts believe major technological breakthroughs —such as CO2 air capture — will be necessary to slow global warming. But without the societal will to decarbonize, even the best technologies won’t be enough...

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2016 was the second-warmest year on record in the U.S., according to NOAA’s latest annual national weather and climate report. The average nationwide temperature came in at 54.9 degrees Fahrenheit – 2.9 degrees warmer than the long-term average...

An aerial view of Lennox Island, off the coast of Prince Edward Island in eastern Canada. ‘We’re losing our island,’ said one resident. Photograph: The government of Prince Edward Island

Rising sea levels mean that Lennox Island has lost more than 400 acres in just a few generations. Now its First Nations community wonders if it has a future...

A worker holds onto an ancient tree while taking research samples on the Tibetan Plateau, June 23, 2015. Duan Jianping for Sixth Tone

A new study shows that temperatures have been rising since the industrial revolution...

Barack Obama has transferred a second $500m instalment to the Green Climate Fund just three days before he leaves office. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

New instalment leaves $2bn owing, with Donald Trump expected to cease any further payments...

The Totten glacier is under threat from warming ocean temperatures, scientists say, and a team has left for the Antarctic region on a research voyage. Photograph: Department of Environment/AAP

Global research group will trace Totten glacier’s history back to last ice age, in hope of predicting future melting patterns...

Billy Barr at his home below Gothic Mountain Morgan Heim / Day’s Edge Production

Billy Barr moved to the Rocky Mountains four decades ago, got bored one winter, and decided to keep a notebook that has become the stuff of legend...

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COUNTRIES across the globe are burdened with disease and in the world’s death capitals, there could be 70,000 premature deaths a year by 2030...

Halley VI research station, situated on the Brunt ice shelf. Photograph: British Antarctica Station

Scientists to be removed from Halley VI Research Station amid fears facility could slide into encroaching ice fissure...

50 year-old Munjiah holds her chest X-Ray, showing specks in her lungs at her home near the Cilacap coal-fired power station in Central Java. Photo by Kemal Jufri/Indonesia.

Approximately 50,000 lives a year could saved by 2030 if no new coal-fired power plants are built in Southeast Asia, South Korea, Japan or Taiwan, a new study finds...

America’s national parks are facing multiple threats, despite being central to the frontier nation’s sense of itself...