The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

Manatees were celebrated across the country on Wednesday. The marine mammals are threatened by increasing climate change impacts

The reason for the switch remains unclear as climate change continues to increase the frequency and severity of extreme weather events

Australia is grappling with a housing crisis – and climate change is only making things worse. We speak to researchers who are making sense of these challenges and working towards solutions.

Hundreds of animals, from tiny ants to mighty hippos, are shaping the Earth’s surface as powerfully as floods and storms. These animals effectively act as landscape engineers, reorganising soils and sediments. Yet their combined global impact has never been explored, until now.

Wealthy nations fuelled their industrial growth and urbanisation by burning fossil fuels. This was the biggest cause of climate change, which now affects every country in the world, even developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa which are responsible for less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Wealthy nations owe a…

By the standards of pre-election budgets, this one is surprisingly modest. There are only a handful of new revenue and spending initiatives. The Budget Paper 2 book, which contains new measures, is a slim document.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a petition filed by young climate activists who argued that the federal government's role in climate change violated their constitutional rights

The Greenland ice sheet makes up 80 percent of the world’s largest island. And, it’s melting thanks to human-caused climate change

Around the globe, hotter temperatures stoked by climate change are increasing the odds of both severe drought and heavier precipitation that can wreak havoc on people and the environment