There’s no other way to put it: Cutting down tropical forests is disastrous.

When it comes to carbon dioxide emissions, the first environmental problem that comes to mind is climate change.

From the Grand Canyon to Grand Teton, the world is full of so-called “protected areas”: National parks, lands, wildlife preserves, and other wild places that people can visit and enjoy, but that ar

For a long time, people have been using words like “polarizing” and “partisan” to describe the debate over climate change. Last week, I added “brutal and dysfunctional” to the descriptive pile.

Sea levels aren’t the only things rising due to climate change — swaths of land are too, including the nation of Iceland.

SPOKANE, Wash.

AHMEDABAD, India — Secretary of State John F. Kerry arrived Sunday in this city where Mohandas Gandhi set the stage for India’s independence from Britain, with the top U.S.

The space agency is kicking off five global projects designed to study how the earth’s atmosphere influences climate change.

In its 2014 State of the Bay Report, which was released Monday, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation found that the bay’s water quality has improved slightly but that the gains were offset by declines in

As Canadian lakes have become more acidic, they've become increasingly dominated by jelly-like plankton that are throwing things out of whack, new research suggests.