This image obtained Nov. 16, 2015 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows the satellite sea surface temperature departure for the month of October 2015, where orange-red colors are above normal temperatures and are indicative of El Niño. (AFP photo/Handout/NOAA)

It may have been the most controversial climate change study in years...

As global temperatures rise Newtok village, which is being relocated to Nelson Island, is being threatened by the melting of permafrost, greater ice and snow melt and larger storms from the Bering Sea. Credit: Andrew Burton Getty Images

Spending money to adapt will likely be a good investment in Alaska and other states facing sea-level rise and shifting precipitation patterns...

Video: Two scientists trek to remote Petermann glacier in northern Greenland to find out how quickly it is melting and what that means for global sea level rise. (Whitney Shefte/The Washington Post)

A crack in the Larsen C ice shelf as photographed Nov. 10. (John Sonntag/NASA)

An enormous rift in one of Antarctica’s largest ice shelves grew dramatically over the past month, and a chunk nearly the size of Delaware could break away as soon as later this winter, British scientists reported this week...

A visualization of Arctic sea ice during March of 2016. The red line marks the long-term average extent of ice. On this date, sea ice reached a record low wintertime maximum extent. It was the second straight year that a record low was set in winter — a highly unusual event. (Source: NASA Goddard’s Scientific Visualization Studio/C. Starr)

The extent of sea ice globally took major hits during 2016, according to an analysis released yesterday by the National Snow and Ice Data Center...

That’s Not A Photoshopped Sky, Folks - super cell clouds are a type of extreme weather seen in the US, increasingly likely under continued climate change. You don’t want to be under it when it breaks. Welcome to 2017...

Global warming is replicating conditions that triggered an abrupt sea level rise of several meters in the ocean around Antarctica some 15,000 years ago, warns a study...

This year will be an important one for the Earth's future. Here are eight things to watch...

Am image of the crack in the Larsen C ice shelf, taken in November. Photograph: IceBridge/Nasa

Predicted to be one of the largest break-offs ever recorded, separation of iceberg could trigger breakup of most northern major ice shelf, Larsen C...

A new study finds that global warming will probably cause droughts to set in quicker and be more intense. Photograph: David Gray/REUTERS

Lower water supplies, caused by rising temperatures, is increasing risk of political tensions, Chinese researchers warn...

The world’s coral reefs are endangered by global warming. Greg Goebel/Creative Commons

Climate change is having a damaging and long-lasting impact on the health of the ocean’s coral reefs, a new study has found...

Burek at her home near Anchorage. Photo: Joshua Corbett

When a creature mysteriously turns up dead in Alaska—be it a sea otter, polar bear, or humpback whale—veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek gets the call. Her necropsies reveal cause of death and causes for concern as climate change frees up new pathogens and other dangers in a vast, thawing north...

A new model simulation of the Gulf Stream System shows a breakdown of the gigantic overturning circulating in the Atlantic after a CO₂ doubling...

Ed King started 2017 by asking if China would flex its muscles on climate as US leadership waned. He didn’t have to wait long for a sign, as the country published its five-year plan for energy on Thursday...

In this visualization of the Earth's oceans, distinctive white lines trace the flow of surface currents around the world. (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)

Intense future climate change could have a far different impact on the world than current models predict, suggests a thought-provoking new study just out in the journal Science Advances...

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When Hurricane Matthew hit the South Carolina coast on Oct. 8, the storm was weaker than when it struck Haiti a few days earlier. Credit Sean Rayford for The New York Times

In October, Hurricane Matthew roared through the Caribbean as a near-worst-case Category 4 storm, with high winds that devastated Haiti and other countries. But when it made landfall in the United States a few days later, Matthew limped into South Carolina as a Category 1, bringing torrential rains and flooding but little else...

Australia’s extreme weather in 2016 was driven by humankind’s burning of fossil fuels as well as a strong El Niño. Photograph: Tracey Nearmy/AAP

Bureau of Meteorology’s annual climate statement cites unprecedented bushfires in regions that don’t usually burn and worst coral bleaching on record...

A more common scene in the future? (photo: Kystdirektoratet)

“Once-in-a-century” already becoming far more frequent...

House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas. Photograph: Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Im

Thomas Karl and colleagues were harassed by Republicans for publishing inconvenient science. A new study proves them right...