The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

A growing type of insurance, called parametric insurance, is helping farmers and others in developing countries respond to extreme weather events

Vermont residents have begun cleaning up from a flood that led to frantic evacuations, knocked out bridges and damaged numerous homes

Climate change is making it almost impossible to decide how much, where and what to sustainably fish as the fate of future fisheries is becoming increasingly uncertain. This is leading to a slow process or inaction in adapting fisheries and their management to climate change.

In a general election campaign light on policies, very little time was spent debating probably the biggest challenge of them all: the climate crisis.

Heat wave sweeps Europe, sparking forest fires and record temperatures. Authorities issue alerts and caution residents to take precautions.

The UK is not on track to meet its climate targets and has no credible pathway to get there. However, a new set of more specific targets would provide some clarity for the country’s new government and would ultimately help achieve the overall goal: prevent further climate change.

In a warmer world, every El Niño could look like today's most extreme events.

Mongolia has emerged from a particularly long and bitter winter. Extreme temperatures killed over 7.1 million animals. Thousands of herder families lost more than 70 percent of their livestock. Climate change has increased the frequency of extreme weather phenomena, accelerating domestic migration. Mongolia’s traditional nomadic herders are leaving the grasslands…

Washington Post launches conversational AI chatbot for climate change questions