Let’s take a look at the United States, historically the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter. Over those three decades, the U.S. population soared by 28% and the economy, as measured by gross domestic product adjusted for inflation, more than doubled.

Under U.N. rules, the United States is still technically a party to the Paris Agreement until Jan. 27. It also remains a member of the U.N. body that convenes nations annually to monitor global progress on tackling climate change.

For decades, scientists have generally thought that rivers emit more carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, than they take in. But a new analysis of every river network in the contiguous United States—including underrepresented rivers in deserts and shrublands—challenges this assumption,

With the US government absent from the COP30 global climate summit, it will be up to others to avert catastrophe.

Trump’s close ideological ally, President Javier Milei of Argentina called human-caused climate change a “socialist hoax,” threatened to quit the Paris Agreement and pulled Argentine negotiators out of last year’s summit in Azerbaijan as part of what he described as a reassessment of climate policy.

With this year’s global climate summit opening in Brazil, we offer a glimpse of how the Trump administration sometimes operates behind closed doors.

Social media users accused Gates of softening his long-standing commitment to mitigating the effects of climate change.

Earth just endured one of its most extreme wildfire years on record — and scientists say human-driven climate change is the cause. A sweeping new analysis, the State of Wildfires 2024–25 report, finds that human-driven global warming dramatically increased the intensity and scale of wildfires across the globe,