More than 450 people are suing Japan’s government and seeking damages of 1,000 yen ($6) each, alleging one of the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters isn’t doing enough to combat global warming.

Across the western U.S., wildfires and the dangerous smoke that results have increased in frequency and intensity since the 1990s—that much is clear. Surprisingly less clear are the exact reasons why: While greenhouse gas-related global warming is often cited as a culprit,

An E.P.A. site listing the causes of climate change no longer includes the main one: human activity. The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly removed the fact that human activity is driving climate change from a handful of pages on its website.

Tension between farmers and herders has long been a fact of life in West Africa, but climate change is ramping it up

The idea began in California's Sierra Nevada, a towering spine of rock and ice where rising temperatures and the decline of snowpack are transforming ecosystems, sometimes with catastrophic consequences for wildlife.

With affordability and energy costs looming large as political issues, Gov. Kathy Hochul is less focused on going green.

Climate change might cause more shorter and warmer winters, but that doesn’t mean a white Christmas will become a thing of the past.

A long, warm plume of airborne water snaked its way from the subtropical Pacific Ocean toward the U.S. West Coast at the beginning of this month. As the so-called atmospheric river made its way north,

Former state Rep. Bobby Payne has said that initiatives combatting climate change are “unfitting for our country.”