Over the next few decades, the choices governments, companies, and communities make on emissions and adaptation will determine whether those unlivable zones swallow hundreds of millions of people or ...

Even though the people of Central America have contributed very little to global warming, it is a region particularly vulnerable to climate disruption, with Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala ranked ...

Some of the regions changing the fastest due to climate change are in the far north of the U.S. and Canada. According to a new paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the fastest-changing ...

Microbes across Earth's coldest regions are becoming more active as glaciers, permafrost and sea ice thaw, accelerating carbon release and potentially amplifying climate change, according to a new ...

Americans often pull up roots in search of better jobs and cheaper housing. But in recent years, those moves have drawn more people into regions with higher risk of natural disasters, which have ...

A man carries a calf through flood waters in Assam’s Dibrugarh district, India, July 2024. Credit: Pronib Das Alarm bells are ringing for the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) with yet another study ...