Fires, heat waves, and hurricanes: Why this summer's extreme weather is here to stay.

This summer, the US has had several record-smashing natural disasters: over 110 large fires are burning throughout the country, especially in the West; California...

A pause.

We have stated that if there is a silver lining to the Hurricane Irma cloud it is that we have become closer as a...

US Coast Guard, EPA cleaning up a dozen Texas chemical spills after Harvey.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard and the Environmental Protection Agency are working with Texas state regulators to clean up oil and chemicals...

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Caribbean Opinion Gabrielle Thongs ‘Climate change’ does not adequately capture the chaos brought to these islands by the extreme weather. Poverty will make the recovery even more...

Houston's floodwaters are tainted with toxins, testing shows.

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Caribbean residents fend off looters after Irma.

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VIDEO: McCain urges action on climate change.

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Pope Francis warns “history will judge” climate change deniers.

As Hurricane Irma, a tempest exacerbated by climate change, ravaged the Florida coast on Monday as a tropical storm, Pope Francis doubled down on...

Irma won't “wake up” climate change-denying Republicans. Their whole ideology is on the line.

As one of the most powerful storms ever recorded bore down on the continental United States, with much of Florida under evacuation order, President Donald...

Floridians battered by Irma maintain climate change is no 'big deal.'

Florida On Marco Island, widespread destruction in Irma’s wake is not enough to make believers out of some climate change skeptics 10 dead in Cuba as...

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