Heat-related deaths have risen 23% since the 1990s, claiming 546,000 lives a year Deaths from air pollution also are ...

Climate change "will not lead to humanity's demise," billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has said in a long memo in which ...

A new scientific study revealed that Earth's North and South Poles could shift by more than 89 feet by the year 2100. Melting ice due to our planet's overheating is moving these geographic poles, ...

Mr. Magnason is an Icelandic writer and filmmaker; he wrote from Reykjavik. Ms. Hallgrímsdóttir is an Icelandic photographer. The geology of Iceland has always been on the move. The island sits on the ...

In the face of growing global pressures, a new report from Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future (SAEF), including University of Adelaide researchers, highlights the opportunity to strengthen and ...

Deep at the center of the Earth, our planet’s inner core is spinning, growing and—according to new research—shape-shifting. A new study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience found evidence ...

Thawing ground in Siberia's remote Yamal Peninsula is warping the landscape — and residents say the changes are becoming impossible to ignore. Strange mounds, sudden sinkholes, and even explosive ...

Winter ski season is on the horizon, but New Hampshire is still deep in drought, putting some snowmakers at the state’s ...