Sarah Kaplan

Clam shells could help scientists understand the Atlantic Ocean’s sensitive circulation system — and predict when that crucial system might catastrophically collapse.

Most of the growth comes from people burning coal, oil and gas, the report said.

Weeks after being swept away in floodwaters, a North Carolina grandmother is among an untold number of victims who remain unaccounted for after Hurricane Helene.

Of more than 500 hurricanes that have hit the United States, the average storm led to up to 11,000 excess deaths, hundreds of times higher than official estimates.

As climate warms the atmosphere and spurs greater precipitation, mountain communities like Asheville, N.C., face growing danger of floods.

An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the consequences of human-caused warming.

Emissions of methane — a powerful greenhouse gas — are rising at the fastest rate in recorded history, scientists said Tuesday, defying global pledges to limit it.

Amid an onslaught of lethal heat, surging disease and record-breaking storms, global temperatures this summer climbed to the highest levels on record, according to Europe’s top climate agency.

There is a secret landscape beneath every field of wildflowers. A place inhabited by beings just as varied and beautiful as the blossoms above. This is the world of seeds.

Americans disproportionately move to fire- and flood-prone counties, but high insurance costs and climate change awareness may be shifting migration trends, per new data.