2020 was a year of extreme weather around the world. Hot and dry conditions drove record-setting wildfires through vast areas of Australia, California and Brazil and Siberia. A record-breaking ...

"Climate change continued its relentless march in 2020," the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said as it announced the release of its State of the Global Climate 2020 report. The report ...

The year 2020 is ending as it began in some ways -- with politicians sounding the alarm over the "existential threat" of climate change and its allegedly catastrophic impacts. But, as many have noted, ...

Climate action has become less urgent now that affordability is top of mind. The good news is, emissions are likely to ...

Extreme weather events and Covid-19 pandemic combined in a double blow in 2020, according to a new report released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on April 19. 2020 was one of the three ...

Justine Calma is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home, a podcast ...

The Climate Shift Index (CSI), Climate Central’s daily temperature attribution system, applies the latest peer-reviewed methodology to map the influence of climate change on temperatures across the ...

The 2020 presidential election may have swung to Joe Biden's side thanks to fears surrounding climate change. A new report from CU Boulder's Center for Environmental Futures (C-SEF) revealed that many ...

Twelve years ago, at a United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen, rich nations made a significant pledge. They promised to channel US$100 billion a year to less wealthy nations by 2020, to help them ...

Remember the Australian bushfires? Back in January, the unprecedented blazes looked like strong candidates to make wildfires the disaster theme of 2020, even as news buzzed in the background about the ...