"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twenty-twenty is the year of the female voter. The centennial of that right being ratified in the Constitution is turning out to also be the year when women are driving the election and the issues.

As the world turned its eyes to a dire pandemic, another global catastrophe was not-so-quietly gaining steam: Climate change has been simmering since the Industrial Revolution, but 2020 was a year ...

After nearly 20 years of mega-drought, California's 2020 wildfire season has been the worst on record. More than 4 million acres of California have burned so far this year, with one fire reaching ...

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 ...

2020 was supposed to be the watershed moment for action on climate change, the year the world woke up to the challenge and started taking it seriously. Instead, it has symbolically topped a decade of ...

As the world picks up speed in its race against climate change and moves forward from the 2021 Glasgow Climate Change Conference, let’s look at ten key global events in 2022 that will shape critical ...