Climate

The suffocating heat in Athens has forced its top attraction, the Acropolis, to close to tourists in the afternoons for...

Last year it was wheat, then sugar. This year, it is tomatoes.As weather patterns grow erratic — rainfalls too heavy...

The intense heat afflicting much of the United States is putting pressure on the nation’s power grid. Record-high temperatures are...

Researchers may have solved a big mystery surrounding a very big fish.Around the world, freshwater fish are in trouble. That’s...

On a sticky July afternoon, as the sun beat down and the temperature climbed into the high 80s, several dozen...

In July 1945, as J. Robert Oppenheimer and the other researchers of the Manhattan Project prepared to test their brand-new...

The NewsLast month was the planet’s warmest June since global temperature record-keeping began in 1850, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

The Biden administration on Thursday proposed a rule that would raise the royalties that fossil fuel companies pay to pull...

Linda Ressler is an airplane cabin cleaner at the airport in Phoenix, where the temperature has reached or surpassed 110...

The red carpet welcome in Beijing for Henry A. Kissinger, the 100-year-old former secretary of state, included China’s top leader,...