Rising levels of carbon pollution have been causing summers to heat up for decades. The season has warmed since 1970 in 97% of 242 U.S. cities analyzed by Climate Central. And summers will only become ...

Climate change also alters nitrogen in soils and plants, shaping food quality, water safety, and pollution risks worldwide.

Dean Colony of Colony Acres Family Farm in North Liberty checks on his pumpkin crop July 9. Colony grows around 40 varieties of the fall-harvest gourds. Colony checks on the health of the plants as ...

The study of climate change refugia — places that are buffered from the worst effects of global warming — has grown rapidly ...

The U.S. has had a fairly chilly December so far, but things are heating up for the holidays. Christmas is expected to be exceptionally warm across a majority of the United States, particularly the ...

The tall, slender beech trees with their dark green, dense crowns – the very symbol of the temperate forests in Europe – may have disappear from many landscapes by the turn of the next century. Today, ...

A new study found that more than half of the world’s straddling stocks will shift across the maritime borders between exclusive economic zones (EEZs) and the high seas by 2050. Most of these shifts ...

The EPA has proposed scrapping the Endangerment Finding — the legal foundation for regulating greenhouse gases. If finalized, this move would dismantle decades of climate protections, igniting a ...

Bill Gates is changing how he talks about climate change. The Microsoft co-founder, who has poured billions into fighting global warming, now says it’s time to dial back the panic and focus on lifting ...

A few years ago, Holly Jones started studying the micro-climate and the topography on her family farm in Crawfordsville, Iowa, about 40 miles south of Iowa City. Jones said learning more about the ...