The fossil fuel industry is spending millions to salvage its reputation...

The red-ruffed lemur is now found in only one area of Madagascar: a peninsula that is regularly hit by severe storms. (Photo: Mathias Appel/Flickr)

Australian scientists were surprised at how suddenly global warming drove an endangered mammal to extinction. Are there other species that could vanish faster than expected?

YORK, England, July 4 (UPI) — A team of scientists in England have found a better way to capture carbon from power plant emissions.

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Following Temperature Record Announcements, Oil Industry Ads Outpaced Climate-Related Coverage By Almost 5-To-1...

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When Americans fire up their grills on Independence Day, they'll dump up to 882 million pounds of carbon pollution into the atmosphere—the equivalent of burning 2,145 rail cars of coal. And that doesn’t even include the carbon burned just by driving to July 4 celebrations or the pollution that leeches from fireworks displays...

Residents of a village in South Tarawa waded through water during high tides that flooded the region, leaving homes isolated until the waters receded. Credit Josh Haner/The New York Times

Climate change is threatening the livelihoods of the people of tiny Kiribati, and even the island nation’s existence. The government is making plans for the island’s demise...

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Mr. Faulkner, 39, had personally used at least $30 million worth of investor money for his own “lifestyle of decadence and debauchery,”

Hillary Clinton has promised to have a half-billion solar panels installed by 2020. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton, courting young voters and the broader democratic base, has promised to one-up President Obama on climate change, vowing to produce a third of the nation’s electricity from renewable sources by 2027, three years faster than Mr. Obama, while spending billions of dollars to transform the energy economy...

Stephen Hawking believes we must be vigilant to the dangers of artificial intelligence. credit: Getty Images

Leading physicist also worried about Artificial Intelligence in warfare, warning machines' goals may differ from ours...

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India's Sunderbans islands, on the rim of the Bay of Bengal, are threatened by sea level rise caused by global warming...

In this Wednesday, June 29 photo, a man holds an umbrella as water engulfs him during high tide on the Arabian Sea coast, in Mumbai, India. (AP Photo)

NEW DELHI (AP) — Each year as temperatures rise across India, farmers look to the sky and pray for rain...

Miami, Florida is already feeling the impacts of climate change - how will a city deal with the rising seas?

Queensland's coal seam gas industry now has more than 7000 wells. Photo: Saah Moles, Wilderness Society

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On June 24, the independent news website TruthOut broke a doozy of a story: the Obama Administration has secretly approved over 1,500 instances of offshore hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in the Gulf of Mexico, including during the Deepwater Horizon offshore spill disaster...

Super Typhoon Haiyan moves toward the Philippines on Nov. 7, 2013 in the Pacific Ocean. (NOAA via Getty Images)

When it comes to fundamental drivers of climate and weather across the Earth, it is hard to think of a region more important than the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool, an enormous area stretching across the Pacific and Indian oceans on both sides of the equator...

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It's one of the highest-stakes debates in the battle over climate change policy action: how much methane is spewing from oil and gas sites nationwide, and what do we do as a result?

A satellite view of Antarctica is seen in this undated NASA handout photo obtained by Reuters February 6, 2012. Russian scientists are close to drilling in to the prehistoric sub-glacier Lake Vostok, which has been trapped under Antarctic ice for 14 million years. REUTERS/NASA/Handout

WASHINGTON –  Antarctica's ozone hole finally is starting to heal, a new study finds...

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When an expected record-breaking 36 million Americans take their holiday road trips this Fourth of July weekend, they’ll be part of what is quickly becoming our nation’s biggest source of carbon dioxide emissions — transportation...

The amount of area burned has ballooned by 1,200%, with areas such as the northern Rockies and the north-west particularly badly hit. Photograph: Ryan Babroff/AP

High temperatures, drought, wind and beetle infestations have combined to create a number of fires that have caused at least two deaths in California...

Even forests in unexpectedly vulnerable places like Poland are suffering the effects of climate change with millions of dying trees. Credit: Reuters

Mass die-offs in California, the Southwest and Europe are not only tied to global warming by new studies, they will add to it...