This image released by NASA’s Earth Observatory Team from data collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), an instrument on NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites, shows the land surface temperature as observed by MODIS in Asia between April 15 to April 23, 2016. Yellow shows the warmest temperatures. Photograph: AP

Earth’s record hottest 12 consecutive months were set in each month ending in September 2015 through May 2016...

A map from the National Weather Service shows the intensity of the rains that brought floods to the region. National Weather Service graphic

Heavy rainstorms like those that caused last week’s devasting flooding across a 12-county region of West Virginia are almost certainly made more frequent and more intense by global warming that is fueled by the buildup of greenhouse gas emissions, some of the nation’s top climate science experts say...

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While the world panics about the Great Barrier Reef, an even larger and more valuable habitat is collapsing under our noses...

Linda Balas looks at the remains of a vacation home in Wimberley, Tex., in 2015, where eight of her friends from Corpus Christi were swept away in a flood. The United States has endured eight weather-related billion-dollar disasters so far in 2016. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Last month was the hottest June on record for the Lower 48...

CNN recently dedicated five times more air time to fossil fuel advertising than it did to climate coverage...

For decades, solar power was so expensive, few could afford it. That's now changing...

The giant kelp forests are part of the Great Southern Reef – a global biodiversity hotspot, with up to 30% of species endemic. Photograph: Thomas Schmitt/Getty Images

About 90% of forests off the western coast were wiped out between 2011 and 2013, posing a threat to biodiversity and the marine economy, say scientists...

An area of Arctic sea ice about twice the size of Texas has vanished over the last 30 years, and the rate of that retreat has accelerated. Photograph: NASA/Reuters

From mid-June onwards, ice cover disappeared at an average rate of 29,000 miles a day, about 70% faster than the typical rate of ice loss, experts say...

How temperatures across the contiguous U.S. compared to normal during June 2016.
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Thanks in part to the epic heat wave that sent temperatures skyrocketing in the Southwest, last month was the hottest June on record for the contiguous U.S., the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday...

The garden at Masindray primary school, in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Weather patterns on the island are becoming more unusal and extreme. All photographs: Kate Holt/WaterAid

Severe droughts and floods have had a devastating impact on the island’s rural poor, who are reliant on small-scale farming or fishing...

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New York City is in trouble...

A villager in Chandipur holds a can of contaminated tube-well water. Many such wells in Bangladesh are now drying up altogether. Photograph: Pavel Rahman/AP

For centuries, the region has been shaped by its struggles with water. But where floods and cyclones once threatened, the menace now is a lack of water...

Lake Poopó, credit: Josh Haner

LLAPALLAPANI, Bolivia — The water receded and the fish died. They surfaced by the tens of thousands, belly-up, and the stench drifted in the air for weeks...

This NOAA/NASA image shows Earth using near-infrared and shortwave infrared energy instead of the standard red, green, and blue light that the human eye has evolved to detect. By using infrared energy rather than visible light, the colors indicate differences in temperature rather than what they look like. For example, instead of appearing just white, clouds are shades of yellow, orange, and red depending on their elevation. Photograph: HANDOUT/AFP/Getty Images

When comparing apples to apples, a new study finds energy budget climate sensitivity estimates consistent with climate models...

A pile of dung cakes. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Americans used a lot of energy in 2015 - 97.7 quadrillion British thermal units (BTUs) of it to be specific, according to a recent report from the EIA.  For reference, one quadrillion BTUs is equivalent to 45 million tons of coal, 1 trillion cubic feet of gas, or 170 million barrels of crude oil.” 

The sun rises behind cartons of water at a California water station. (David McNew / Getty Images)

The summer of 2016 is barely two weeks old, but this year is already on track to break high temperature records in the United States. On June 20, cities across the Southwest and into Nevada reached all-time triple-digit highs. Meanwhile, every single state experienced spring temperatures above average, with some in the Northwest reaching record highs...

File photo: Redwood trees in San Mateo County. (Kirstina Sangsahachart/Bay Area News Group archives)

California redwoods store more carbon than any other forests in the world, study finds...

A landslide on the Lamplugh Glacier, in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, on June 28 caused seismic tremors about as strong as a small earthquake. Credit Paul Swanstrom/Mountain Flying Service

An enormous landslide that spread rocky debris more than six miles across a glacier in southeastern Alaska last week was not the first to occur in the area, and certainly will not be the last...

Mine pollution will poison the Sepik River and staple Sago

Chinese government’s massive open-pit mine in the rainy Papua New Guinea highlands, with its tons of toxic tailings full of sulphides and heavy metals, is to be poised above the Sepik River and its primary rainforests, intact local cultures, and the South Pacific Ocean. Apparently Papua New Guinea’s urban elites have learned little from decades of foreign industrial mining (and logging) causing conflict and despair, environmental damage, and social and economic decline...

Guardian US survey reveals anger of voters as election year debate fails to deal with concerns over the gathering global disaster..