Climate change and land use are having a profound impact on the natural habitats of mammals, birds, and amphibians worldwide.

Negotiators are largely focused on how to curb climate change, but there's another topic on their plates: how to adapt to the ...

In this episode of “Protecting the Planet,” CBS News senior environmental correspondent Ben Tracy explores the connection ...

The ocean is a global life-support system, and climate change causes such as ocean warming, acidification, deoxygenation, and nitrogen-deposition alter the delicate microbial population in oceans. The ...

The latest manifestation of the effects of climate change and global warming is its effect on the human brain.

As United Nations climate talks enter their second week, negotiators who are largely focused on how to curb climate change ...

On a bright day this fall, tractors crisscrossed Gayle Goschie's farm about an hour outside Portland, Oregon. Goschie is in the beer business — a fourth-generation hops farmer. Fall is the off ...

When world leaders gathered in Glasgow last year for the COP26 climate change summit, the Scottish government said its targets to reduce emissions were some of the toughest in the world.

As the world nears the end of what could be the hottest year in recorded history and heads into one predicted to be hotter still, a report underscores the health consequences of the warming climate.

Most people will have noticed that it’s definitely getting hotter in the UK. Multiple and lengthy summer heatwaves, and sometimes February or April heatwaves, are far more common now than in previous ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — With Planet Earth running a fever, U.N. climate talks focused Sunday on the contagious ...