Climate change might feel like a distant concept—something that is happening somewhere else, to someone else. But the reality is, it’s happening right here, right now. And the science is clearer than ...

The science of climate change is almost two centuries old. To the best of our knowledge, it began with Joseph Fourier, who first noted in the 1820s that, given Newton's laws of cooling, the Earth ...

The Washington D.C.-born Cornell graduate, who will be 68 on Monday, hosted his science show from 1993 to 1999, but never relinquished his role as the nation’s favorite pop-scientist.

Climate change or global warming? The reasons why there are different terms to describe one phenomenon is a tale that reveals how thinking can change on a topic – and how language was shaped by ...

Climate Central presents a new outreach and education resource for meteorologists, journalists, and others—a climate change presentation, Our Changing Climate.

"By 2001, there were many signs that climate is changing and now we are already seeing the patterns described in the first IPCC report." Simple observation confirms the basic science of climate ...

There may actually be a way to keep the worst of climate change at bay, but it’s going to take a herculean effort, according to a new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.

Climate change is the long-term shift in the Earth's average temperatures and weather conditions. The world has been warming up quickly over the past 100 years or so. As a result, weather patterns ...

There is growing demand for countries to take aggressive action to combat climate change, but less consensus on how to fund it. In a new study, researchers asked more than 10,000 people from the ...

Human activities are causing world temperatures to rise, posing serious threats to people and nature. Things are likely to worsen in the coming decades, but scientists argue urgent action can ...