The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

Before species go extinct, their populations often shrink and become isolated. Healthy populations tend to have a large gene pool with many genetic variants circulating. But the path to extinction erodes genetic diversity, because a species’ gene pool shrinks as the population declines. Losing genetic diversity limits the ability of…

Ocean warming has more than quadrupled in recent decades and is likely to accelerate even faster if humanity fails to address climate change, scientists find.

Climate change and recent troubles with counterfeit seeds have challenged Kenya's agriculture efforts to improve food security

The care economy is an important but unrecognised sector for climate change adaptation. I use the term “care economy” to encompass the work of caring for people that is paid and unpaid, largely undertaken by women. This work takes place in a range of places. This includes private and public…

The hot, dry and windy weather that stoked this month’s destructive blazes will worsen without a transition away from atmosphere-warming fossil fuels, researchers say

A quick scientific study finds that human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires

Hot, dry conditions, a lack of rain and a longer fire-risk season are all more likely in today’s hotter climate

Analysis found the hot, dry and windy conditions that drove the fires were 35% more likely due to 1.3C of warming.

The U.S. secretary of commerce oversees the smallest but arguably most complex of all Cabinet-level departments.