There's a particular kind of dread that comes from looking at a map of the world and realizing it no longer looks quite like the one you memorized in school. Colors that shouldn't exist in certain ...

Every year, about a billion people worldwide contract influenza, leading to as many as 650,000 deaths. Outbreaks are often ...

Reconstructed surface air temperature (left) and rainfall amount (right) during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum warming event, 56 million years ago. The maps were created by blending geological ...

Climate change may soon cause a catastrophic loss of global biodiversity. For decades, tropical species have widely been considered more vulnerable than temperate species. However, some studies have ...

Temperature records in Florida were broken overnight, an event one meteorologist says underscores a troubling long-term trend ...