The alarming conclusions of yesterday's IPCC report are neither abstract nor distant concerns for the residents of Makoko, a flood-prone shanty-town in the coastal lagoon of Lagos, Nigeria, Reuters reports. The community
A powerful nor’easter hammered New England over the weekend with record snowfall and hurricane-force winds that left more than 100,000 electricity customers without power. The storm rapidly intensified off the coast of
A panel of appellate court judges heard arguments on Tuesday in Baltimore's lawsuit against BP, Chevron, Exxon, Shell, and other Big Oil firms who failed to warn consumers about the dangers of
The tsunami triggered by an underwater volcanic eruption left destruction across the South Pacific island nation of Tonga that illustrates even greater danger from the impacts of climate change, Reuters reports. Climate
The nations most vulnerable to the ravages of the climate crisis are calling for increased commitments by wealthy nations to help them adapt to, and repair damages caused by climate impacts, following
Far away from COP26 negotiating rooms, Hosneara Begum walks over a mile and a half (about 2KM) every day to collect fresh water as saline contamination — worsened by climate-fueled sea level
Indigenous groups from around the world are preparing to travel to Glasgow for COP26 to call for climate action and demand a greater say in negotiations, the Arizona Republic reports. However, despite
Africa's GDP could shrink as much as 30% without swift action to adapt to the impacts of climate change, according to Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. “An investment of $800 million in developing
The climate migration is well underway, and it is the poorest and most vulnerable who do not have the resources or capacity to leave their homes. Climate stressors, like wildfires, heavy flooding,
As many as 216 million people could be forced from their homes by the impacts of climate change in the next 30 years, a new report from the World Bank finds. The
Historically excluded racial and ethnic groups, along with low-income and less educated populations will likely face greater harm from the impacts of climate change, an EPA report detailed Thursday. The study comes
Tropical depression Grace is expected to pass over Haiti on Monday and Tuesday, just days after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake left nearly 1,300 dead and 5,700 injured, threatening to cause flooding and
Climate change could destabilize North Korea and, according to a joint report by the Council on Strategic Risks and the Woodwell Climate Research Center, that could be bad. While elites in North
As hope fades additional survivors will be rescued and scores are feared dead in the rubble of the Champlain Towers condo building that collapsed near Miami Beach on Thursday, impacts due to
The ice shelf that holds Antarctica's massive Pine Island Glacier from collapsing into the Southern Ocean is breaking up faster than before as climate change weakens the natural barriers to glacial melting,
Human-caused climate change was responsible for $8 billion of the damage inflicted by Superstorm Sandy in 2012, new research published Tuesday in Nature found. The additional flooding attributed to melting glaciers and
Some 40 percent of all people on Earth live within 60 miles of the coast. That statistic, perhaps more than any other fact or figure, testifies to how much human civilization depends
Germany's highest court ruled Thursday that the country's 2019 climate law unconstitutionally saddles young people with the burden of fighting climate change by "irreversibly offload[ing] major emission reductions burdens onto periods after
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Growing up in Bangladesh’s sprawling capital of Dhaka, Farzana Faruk Jhumu learned about the
People forced from their homes by the impacts of climate change have no legal definition under international (or American) refugee law, but the Biden administration may seek to change that, the AP