Germany has long been a leading advocate for confronting and ameliorating climate change. But actions speak louder than words - or signatures on an international accord. The recent Volkswagen scandal is...

The U.S. Supreme Court's five conservative justices went out of their way to throw a roadblock in front of the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan last week.In an unprecedented move, the majority bloc...

Among climate scientists, the consensus is that we must become carbon-neutral by 2050 to avoid catastrophic environmental disruptions. Negotiators at the recent summit in Paris accordingly focused on curbing...

Due to many shifting aspects of the climate, Ohio has experienced a winter that is mild in temperature and dry, quite unlike those of the past two years.Thomas Schmidlin is a meteorologist and professor...

In the small town of Newtok, Alaska, a Yupik village of about 350 people, children once played on endless fields of frozen permafrost. Now, they splash in salt water pools and teeter on boardwalks as the...

On the opening day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, President Barack Obama said the event was "a turning point ... the moment we finally determined we would save our planet."French...

Dozens and dozens of world leaders are meeting this month at the critical world climate change conference in Paris, in the hope of reaching a legally binding, universal agreement to curb carbon emissions...

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, is working overtime to save Americans from the threat of cleaner air."I will be working with my Senate colleagues...

What did Exxon executives know about global warming and when did they know it? A report by InsideClimate News published Sunday suggests the company's own scientists gave warning as far back as the 1970s...

Think of the irony in this: if the push that finally makes the United States a world leader in combating climate change comes from ... China.Of course, Chinese President Xi Jinping would first have to...

In June, Pope Francis released a remarkable encyclical on "care for our common home," the Earth. He called climate change a "global problem with grave implications," and described our response to date...

Recently, President Obama visited Alaska to drum up support for his climate agenda. But it’s becoming clear this agenda is not, in fact, about climate. Instead, it’s the typical Washington story of...