A slowly winding case before the European Court of Human Rights could result in the first individual recognized as a climate change victim.

Less than half of Americans believe the Earth is warming as a direct result of human activity, new data from Pew Research shows, and 12% of Americans don't believe the Earth is warming at all. A man ...

A new study by IIASA researchers offers a pioneering way to understand how climate change affects people's lives over the long term. Using a global model and the Years of Good Life (YoGL) metric, the ...

A new report from the National Academies provides a comprehensive assessment of the current capabilities of extreme event ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an attorney who writes about sustainability law and policy. At the request of the United Nations General Assembly, the ...

Climate change is no longer a distant environmental concern it’s a present day health crisis. Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and shifting ecosystems are altering the conditions we live ...

The Clock Is Ticking for New Mexico to Cut Rio Grande Water Use A Texas-Sized Water Crisis Trump Lashes Out at National Academies of Sciences Over Climate Guide For Judges By 2050, the combined ...

One of the scientific literature’s most consistent conclusions is that the majority of climate-related displacements happen inside national borders. People who move for climate reasons usually go from ...

Human societies are already experiencing wide-ranging consequences of a warming planet. Rising average temperatures, more frequent and intense heatwaves, shifting precipitation patterns and ...

When former Vice President Al Gore launched the movie An Inconvenient Truth in 2006 to explain the science behind climate change to the American public, surveys showed that many Americans didn’t ...

Climate adaptation isn’t surrender. It’s survival.