As the senior climate editor at NPR, when extreme weather impacts us, I often send out guidance to the newsroom to help everyone understand the role of climate change. Here's what I tell them.

When it comes to distinguishing between weather and climate, weather generally covers short and specific timeframes and locations, while climate focuses on trends and statistical ups and downs over ...

"Solastalgia" might help explain the negative effects of climate change on mental health, suggests a review of the available research, published in the open-access journal BMJ Mental Health.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research shows gases from heated underground rocks may have caused climate swings that led to ancient mass extinctions.

Telling the story of our lives—climate change—takes a lot of words. But sometimes, a graphic is what makes things click. Whoever coined the adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” was likely not ...

Anger, compassion, and hope can shape climate attitudes, but a real-money experiment found they did little to motivate actual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grok, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence bot on X, summarized a post from the White House Press Secretary about the devastating ...

The Sahara Desert has expanded by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new study conducted by University of Maryland researchers. This represents roughly an area the size of South Dakota being ...