environment

WASHINGTON -- The global surface temperature in 2018 was the fourth warmest in the modern record, showed annual analyses released...

WASHINGTON -- American and Dutch scientists found that yearly ice mass loss in Antarctica increased sixfold in the past 40...

WASHINGTON -- Scientists say tiny fibers from our clothes are escaping our washing machines and winding up in the water,...

WASHINGTON -- A NASA-led study has shown Asia's high mountain glaciers are flowing more slowly in response to widespread ice...

URUMQI, CHINA -- Chinese scientists have called for control of global warming to decrease droughts. A team led by Su...

BEIJING, CHINA -- Chinese scientists have warned that the melting glaciers in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as the world's Third...

Human activities have caused global warming by 1 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels resulting in damaging typhoons, rising sea levels...

WASHINGTON -- Danish and Swedish researchers said that many mammal species would be extinct during the next five decades but...

WASHINGTON -- Researchers at Columbia University have invented a high-quality polymer coating that can cool down buildings in daytime by...

NEW YORK -- The number of marine heatwave days has roughly doubled between 1982 and 2016 and will further increase...