Half the coral has disappeared from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef over the past 27 years, much of it due to factors influenced by human activity, according to scientists at the Au...

Sea ice’s reckoning has come: As predicted a couple of weeks ago , the level of ice in the Arctic Ocean has dropped to its lowest level...

For centuries, the Guna (a.k.a. Kuna) Indians have successfully defended their territory on Panama’s Caribbean coast...

As a top U.S...

What do climate change, ultraviolet radiation and ozone have in common? Thunderstorms. Maybe. Scientists are positing a possible link between the three based on a new study...

Greenland nearly melted earlier this month, when over the course of just a few days, 97 percent of the surface area of its entire ice cover defrosted to at least some degree, scien...

Among indigenous cultures being affected by climate change, coastal communities are in the lead...

The United States East Coast are directly in the path of rising oceans due to climate change, with New York and Boston straight in the water’s pathway, the U.S...

LINCOLN, Neb.—Native peoples are no stranger to forced relocation. It is a bitter chapter in the history of North American tribal peoples...

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...