The Environmental Protection Agency is significantly underestimating the amount of methane that natural gas drilling operations emit, according to a new study published this week in the Proceedings

The World Bank is still failing to take climate change into account as it makes decisions about the projects it finances, according to a new report from the nonprofit World Resources Institute.

The death toll from the landslide that hit the Washington town of Oso rose to 33 on Monday, according to the Snohomish County medical examiner's office, which said all but three have been identifie

Warming temperatures, scientists say, can tip places into drought conditions by increasing evaporation and sapping soil of its moisture.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations task force, released a report last week that was seven years in the making.

A decade before a colossal landslide buried a Washington community, county officials considered buying up people's homes there to protect them from such a disaster.

Today the Pew Charitable Trust released its annual ranking of how countries are faring against one another in the clean energy race, and China has for the fourth time in the past five years overtak

Challenges such as extreme weather, rising seas and worsening scarcity of drinking water are forcing many Asian governments to confront the changes being wrought by a warming planet even as some po