Climate

‘Exceptionally large floods’ swept through Guizhou’s Rongjiang county, forcing some 80,000 people to flee their homes. At least six people have died and more than 80,000 people were evacuated from …

Mark Poynting Climate reporter, BBC News Getty Images More people are buying electric cars and installing heat pumps than ever before, but those numbers need to increase even further, according …

Europe risks choosing militarism over social and environmental security, economists have warned, as the head of Nato said all 32 members had agreed to increase weapons spending. Analyses drafted in …

Heat makes it harder to sleep. In Baghdad, some neighbors set up mattresses on their roof to find a cool sleeping spot. A new study finds the risk of sleep …

Sadiq KhanAnne Hidalgo As mayors of two of the world’s great cities, we see every day how the climate emergency is already reshaping people’s lives, affecting the people and places …

Monday The best descriptions of summer heat, in my view, come from Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding, a novel in which, “the world seemed to die each afternoon …

The new report concludes that not only will the expansion of ethanol increase greenhouse gas emissions, but it has also failed to provide the social and financial benefits to Midwestern …

A plowed field near Brawley, Calif. In recent years, drought, climate change and overuse of the Colorado River have led some farmers to fallow their fields. The federal website climate.gov …

As climate disasters become more frequent and severe, more institutions are investing in programs to address environmental changes and prepare students to engage in green careers. Clark University plans to …

The biggest temperature increases were recorded in the Middle East, West Asia, northeast Russia, and north Canada. This year, the world experienced its second-warmest month of May since records began, …