Climate

Flood risk in the United States may be moving in an unexpected direction: away from the nation’s biggest rivers and...

For nearly two centuries, the rain falling on Genoa has been doing more than filling streets, rivers and reservoirs. It...

Himachal Pradesh, the mountainous Indian state where steep valleys, fragile slopes and rapidly changing weather converge, is emerging as a...

Copper is everywhere in modern life, from power grids and electric vehicles to renewable-energy technologies, data centers and household electronics....

Climate change is reshaping freshwater ecosystems in a way that may be faster, more abrupt and more disruptive than long-term...

Climate science has long had a language problem: researchers may describe the same danger using different terms, while policymakers, businesses...

Plants are widely regarded as important allies in a warming world because rising atmospheric carbon dioxide can allow them to...

Cities around the world are declaring ambitions to reach net-zero emissions, but a new study suggests that the most important...

A powerful ocean circulation system that helps regulate climate may be unable to keep pace with rapidly changing conditions, even...

Heat extremes are no longer confined to the hottest days on the calendar. A new global assessment warns that climate...