Images of families displaced by floods, prolonged droughts or extreme storms have become a distressingly regular feature of the daily news. As the impact of climate change intensifies, so does concern ...

Less than half of Americans believe the Earth is warming as a direct result of human activity, new data from Pew Research shows, and 12% of Americans don't believe the Earth is warming at all. A man ...

Human societies are already experiencing wide-ranging consequences of a warming planet. Rising average temperatures, more frequent and intense heatwaves, shifting precipitation patterns and ...

A new study by IIASA researchers offers a pioneering way to understand how climate change affects people's lives over the long term. Using a global model and the Years of Good Life (YoGL) metric, the ...

Researchers say climate change is a "threat multiplier" on social inequalities facing vulnerable communities and poor ...

By 2050, the combined impacts of climate change and human activity on the ocean could be two to three times greater than they are today. Without urgent efforts to reduce these threats, a new study ...

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Climate change has created havoc in nature, but it can have another effect: causing anxiety in humans. That was the topic discussed by a panel of experts at the Society for Environmental Journalists ...

The contributions of climate change and human activities to runoff variation have been examined in multiple individual catchments, but upstream-downstream interaction relationships remain ...

Amnesty International warned on Wednesday that the coastal community of Cedeño in the Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras, is experiencing a human rights crisis resulting from climate change impacts that ...

A group of Australian citizens has filed a complaint with a United Nations body arguing the climate change impacts of the ...