As the Rio+20 United Nations sustainable development summit opened in Rio de Janeiro on June 20, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that progress against environment...

If you like scary, suspense-filled stories and will get the chance to read only one book this fall … may we suggest the spine-tingling Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwest...

Wildfires such as those raging in Colorado and New Mexico will be more frequent over the next 30 years thanks to climate change, researchers say in a new report...

Although human hunting played a part in the demise of the woolly mammoth about 10,000 years ago, homo sapiens were but bit players in a global drama involving climate change, comet...

The United States space agency NASA has turned its gaze inward—under the Arctic Ocean, to be exact—and discovered a veritable rainforest of phytoplankton bloom beneath the ice...

Irreversible damage to the planet is imminent if humans do not curb population, urbanization and consumption, the United Nations warned in a report released two weeks before the Ri...

Canada is one of the world’s most gluttonous consumers of climate-changing fossil fuels, the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) said on Tuesday, with an ecological footprint per avera...

A new study released at this week’s International Polar Year Conference finds the energy dynamics of the Arctic Ocean changing drastically, and in ways not foreseen by previous cli...

Mother Earth is in for a destructive ride into the future, according to the full report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released this week called "Managing the R...