A seemingly small planetary neighbor may play a larger role in Earth’s climate than previously thought. Mars is only about ...

People quickly normalize extreme weather. Simple visuals highlighting abrupt change could help climate change break through our mental blind spots.

A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...

Climate change is lengthening our days because rising sea levels slow Earth's rotation. Researchers from the University of Vienna and ETH Zurich now show that the current increase in day length—1.33 ...

There is something humbling about realizing that the most urgent climate questions we wrestle with today were, in many ways, already being answered decades ago. Scientists, policymakers, and ordinary ...

Climate change is not a peripheral part of what we’re seeing in Iran—it’s structurally embedded in modern warfare.

A drought has a beginning and an end. What's happening in the West doesn't seem to have an end, so what is it?

An internal government database reviewed by The Washington Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to revise or remove information on African American history, ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – It was meant to cement Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s bold climate action plan into law. But the bill known as the Clear Horizons Act failed on the New Mexico Senate floor ...

The Environmental Protection Agency rejected the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them. By Lisa Friedman ...

When Punxsutawney Phil popped up and saw his shadow on Feb. 2, a collective groan rippled across the Eastern United States, where freezing temperatures, ice and snow have cast a big chill for days.