(Special to The Root) — Chances are, if you are a person of color, climate change isn’t at the top of your list of concerns. President Barack Obama’s remarks on the issue in his State of the Union ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On March 10, around 9:20 pm, Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, an environmental health ...

A warmer atmosphere has the potential to hold more moisture, which can contribute to heavier precipitation in any season, scientists say.

This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on public opinion of climate change and its effects in nine middle-income countries. Opinions surrounding climate change are examined in the context of ...

From heat waves to soil nutrients, climate change is impacting our gut health. Editor at Large If you’re like a lot of people, you’re finding it harder and harder to stomach climate change—literally.

Fabian Lenhard receives funding from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. As headlines about heatwaves, floods and wildfires become more frequent, many people report a growing sense of worry ...

Research conducted by researchers at the University of Gothenburg shows that people tend to rate their own risk of being affected by climate change as lower than that of others. This perception may ...

Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and retains heat at ...

ST. LOUIS — With all of the flooding throughout the country over the last few months, climate change always comes into the forefront when it comes to conversations about why we're having all this ...

An estimated 1.2 billion people could be forced to migrate by 2050 due to extreme weather and natural disasters related to climate change. The hardships of relocating and sharing limited survival ...

Megha Majumdar’s acclaimed novel A Guardian and a Thief explores a near-future where scarcity forces hard choices ...