Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability is the second in a series of four reports prepared by hundreds of the world's top climate scientists through the IPCC.

For real estate owners and developers, being underwater has long been metaphoric shorthand for stressful times, when property debt exceeds property value, or expenses exceed income. But the term ...

The effects of climate change are worse than we thought, an unflinching new UN report finds By Dharna Noor Globe Staff,Updated February 28, 2022, 6:14 a.m.

One of the cruel ironies of climate change is that its impacts tend to fall hardest on the countries least equipped to manage them. When drought or sea level rise strike the United States ...

Unmitigated climate change has already cost the U.S. economy $1 trillion, said economist Marshall Burke, an assistant professor of earth system science at Stanford University, and that cost will ...

"An estimated 17–19% of stillbirths are potentially attributable to chronic exposure to extreme hot and cold temperatures during pregnancy," the authors note. "Climate change can have a ...

As the planet continues to deal with the effects of climate change, the American Psychological Association says more people are dealing with eco-anxiety, "a chronic fear of environmental doom." ...

Individuals living in southeastern Colorado are more vulnerable to potential health effects from climate change than residents in other parts of the state, in part, because of the region’s ...

Humans must drastically alter food production in order to prevent the most catastrophic effects of global warming, according to a U.N. report. If the world doesn't address climate change, there ...

“The health effects of climate change are happening whether or not we fund the science to understand them,” said Dr. Darrow, who is finishing up an N.I.H.-funded project on extreme heat.