The UN organization faces perhaps the most serious crisis in its nearly 40-year history — but it is too precious to lose.

A United Nations climate fund has provisionally set aside $20 million to help Nepal recover from catastrophic flooding that ...

A newborn was safely surrendered to the Safe Haven Baby Box at Knoxville Fire Station 17 — the third surrender since ...

The U.S. was the only major economy that failed last year to reduce its carbon pollution or at least slow the growth in how much carbon dioxide is spewed by burning fossil fuels.

Humanity is losing more ground in its fight against climate change. If all the countries do what they promise to do in the ...

Climate change is often regarded as a problem for future generations, but it is already harming the health of New Jersey residents. As extreme heat, flooding and poor air quality become more common, ...

Researchers from Wits Planetary Health Research (Wits PHR), University of the Witwatersrand, and international partner institutions are calling on the World Health Organization (WHO) and its member ...

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Wildfires, floods and other extreme weather events are no longer the only ways climate change affects children around the world. Increasingly, it also affects their diets. Droughts reduce agricultural ...

In 2006 former vice president Al Gore sounded the alarm on climate change in the documentary An Inconvenient Truth. In the film, he implored the world to wake up and take urgent action to reduce ...

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