Global Warming

The heat has arrived. As predicted, a potent heat wave settled over Europe this week, bringing abnormally high June temperatures to vast swathes of France, Spain, Germany and beyond home to hundreds of millions. Already, the highest ever recorded June temper…

OSAKA (Reuters) - World leaders are descending on Osaka, west Japan, for a summit on Friday and Saturday of the Group of 20 (G20) big economies. Here are five issues likely to dominate the meeting, hosted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. TRUMP-XI TR…

Ten Democratic presidential contenders will take the debate stage in Miami on Wednesday night. Some of them may have noticed that the weather in town is unusually hot. Normally, temperatures in Miami around June's end max out at around 90 degrees Fahrenheit,…

WASHINGTON — Nearly 70 percent of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, want the United States to take "aggressive" action to combat climate change — but only a third would support an extra tax of $100 a year to help, according to a Reuters/Ipsos po…

LONDON (Reuters) - Investors managing more than $34 trillion in assets, nearly half the world’s invested capital, are demanding urgent action from governments on climate change, piling pressure on leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies meeting this week.…

Last years climate change-fueled European heat wave shrunk mountains and and revealed ancient history. So its with great trepidation that Europe is bracing for another scorching heat wave to descend this week. Monthly records could fall in many locations, wi…

This Friday marks the summer solsticethe longest day of the year, the kickoff to the hottest season, and a ritual holiday for countless past and present cultures. For Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading, the solstice also provides …

Like Beyoncé, Greenland is constantly making news.  And for good reason. The Arctic landmass holds an ice sheet that's two and a half times the size of sprawling Texas and it's melting at rates that are unprecedented in at least centuries, if not thousands o…

During the height of the Cold War, U.S. spy satellites collected secret images as they circled the Earth. Today, those images are helping scientists track the effects of climate change. A new analysis of declassified spy imagery, published yesterday in Scien…

Metal canisters filled with top-secret satellite photos plummeted from space and then parachuted over the Pacific Ocean during the '70s and '80s. A U.S. Air Force plane would swoop down on cue and snag the classified material, ferrying the images safely back …