CLIMATE CHANGE

A top scientist at NASA says we're seeing global temperature rises that are unprecedented in the past millennium.

Australian scientists have discovered a massive 2,320-square-mile reef behind the country’s famous Great Barrier Reef using laser data from the Royal Australian Navy.

Scientists used a phototropic bacterium — bacteria that respond to light stimuli — as a catalyst to generate methane from the greenhouse gas.

A new study published Thursday makes the unconventional claim that “rising biofuel use has been associated with a net increase” in carbon dioxide emissions.

In some regions of the Earth, 180 years of warming has caused the average climate to emerge above the range that was normal prior to the Industrial Revolution, a new study says.

Divers associated with the climate change advocacy group 350.org went underwater marking dead coral reefs, blaming the “reckless behavior of Exxon and fossil fuel companies” for the damage.

As the soil thaws, the bodies of victims of an 1890’s smallpox epidemic are in danger of being exposed — which could unleash the disease once again.

Presidential candidate Jill Stein and vice presidential running mate Ajamu Baraka are set to hold court nationally Wednesday night.

Rising temperatures and changes in humidity caused by climate change will severely affect the future of the Olympics, even limiting the number of viable host cities, according to researchers.

In his weekly address Saturday, the U.S. president pledged to continue his efforts to tackle climate change “in the weeks and months ahead.”

A coalition of over 50 science organizations, representing millions of scientists and engineers, have put forward a list of 20 questions they’d like the U.S. presidential candidates to answer.

Aug. 8 is the “overshoot day” — a day when humanity’s demands on the planet exceed its capacity to regenerate resources.

A new study indicates that Greenland ice sheet melting my uncover an abandoned nuclear military base.

The U.S. abandoned a military base in Greenland in 1967, assuming its toxic and radioactive wastes would stay buried under snow forever.

The year was the warmest on record, surpassing 2014 by 0.1 degrees Fahrenheit, according to an annual NOAA report that summarizes global climate behavior.

Some fish have begun to adapt to the increasing acidification of oceans by permanently setting their body defenses at night-time levels.

Scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago have filed for a provisional patent for a solar cell that converts carbon dioxide into a usable fuel.

A team of researchers at the University of Arizona in Tucson found that trees may do more harm than good in fighting climate change.

Energy companies, including Shell, BP and Chevron, have been asked to respond to allegations that their carbon emissions violated the rights of millions of people in the Philippines.

Many U.S. military bases along the U.S. East Coast and Gulf of Mexico are at risk of permanently losing land to the ocean in the decades ahead.

Here's a glimpse of the environmental issues a handful of countries are grappling with as 2016 shapes up to be the hottest year on record.