Physicists have traditionally dealt with simple systems — a single atom, a gas in a box — for which the governing laws are clear and exact answers...

The US State Department published on Tuesday the number of nuclear warheads the country stockpiles for the first time in four years, after former...

Scorching heatwaves, torrential rains, and other extreme weather events make India one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. Many...

Water supply is increasingly becoming a ubiquitous concern among cities around the world. More and more cities are now experiencing water stresses...

As fire ripped through the Mendocino County hills the summer of 2018, burning a vast expanse of forest and turning buildings to ash, a curious thing...

A panel of 12 legal experts from around the world on Tuesday released a proposed definition for a new international crime called “ecocide” covering...

I spent the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina watching as the Weather Channel tracked Hurricane Ida. The two followed similar paths. As I write...

People born today will suffer many times more extreme heatwaves and other climate disasters over their lifetimes than their grandparents, research...

Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) tightened its air quality guidelines on Wednesday, September 22, for the first time since 2005, hoping to...

Boris Johnson has warned the world’s rich countries that “history will judge”, if they fail to act now to tackle the climate crisis, as US climate...