Climate change is making giant heat waves crawl slower across the globe, and they are baking more people for a longer time with higher temperatures over larger areas, a new study finds. Since 1979, global…

For decades, the biggest fears about oil centered on its supply. The lesson was first learned half a century ago, when the Arab members of OPEC banned exports to America and other supporters of Israel…

Year-round sales of E-15 will be a boost to Midwestern corn farmers and motorists when the sales start in select states in April 2025, the farmers and their advocates say. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency…

Have you ever been on a long road trip with a group of disagreeing passengers? It can be dysfunctional, unpleasant, and definitely jeopardize the journey. Where to go, how fast or how safe to drive,…

Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency said Tuesday. In one of the first of…

A changing climate may bring many more days per year of extreme wildfire risk to Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The findings from a new study also suggest people in those states should brace for more…

Cities and towns across the Mississippi River basin have always needed to weather the environmental disasters associated with living along a river. The past few years have brought wild fluctuations between flooding and drought, bringing…

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — As native trees in the Pacific Northwest die off due to climate changes, the U.S. Forest Service, Portland, Oregon and citizen groups around Puget Sound are turning to a deceptively simple…

It took nearly three decades, but world leaders this week finally acknowledged the obvious: There is no way to slow climate change without winding down fossil fuels. The agreement reached Wednesday by nearly 200 nations…

Climate change is worsening the planet’s biodiversity crises, making environments more deadly for thousands of species and accelerating the precipitous decline in the number of plants and animals on Earth, according to an international organization…