Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly everything other than the sun and an ...

All nations of the world had homework this year: submit new-and-improved plans to fight climate change. But the plans they handed in “have barely moved the needle” on reducing Earth’s future warming, ...

This is the first episode of Nature Quest, a monthly Short Wave segment that answers listener questions about your local environment. Every month, we'll be bringing you a question from a fellow ...

FILE - A sign is displayed on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif., on Sept. 24, 2019. Google fell far short of its ambitious goals to address climate change by cleaning up its ...

For decades, economists have focused on how climate change will impact the future. New research from Derek Lemoine, APS ...

Money is one of the biggest obstacles to dealing with climate change — especially in poor countries hit hardest by disasters. Not enough is being spent to cut the pollution that's heating the planet ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Alice C. Hill is the is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. Mia Beams ...

Flooding worsened by climate change is forcing a community in South Sudan to work constantly to keep water from encroaching ...

The United Nations Environment Programme on Dec. 10 announced its five “2025 Champions of the Earth,” the U.N.’s highest ...