Climate

The Biden administration unveiled a website on Tuesday to help Americans stay safe from extreme heat, as scorching temperatures continued...

A major heat wave settling over the Pacific Northwest will bring several days of potentially record-breaking triple-digit temperatures this week,...

Wildfire season is back in the world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon. Last month, the Brazilian part of the forest saw...

BEIJING — In western China, runoff from melting glaciers could overwhelm dams, officials have warned. In the southern metropolis of...

Scorching temperatures swept the Northeast on Sunday in the region’s first prolonged heat wave of the summer, with a record-breaking...

DAKAR, Senegal — The Democratic Republic of Congo, home to one of the largest old-growth rainforests on earth, is auctioning...

KARACHI, Pakistan — Year after year in Kausar Niazi Colony, a slum in the port city of Karachi, Murtaza Hussain...

The U.S. Forest Service said on Friday that it would take emergency action, including removing low-lying vegetation that can fuel...

Older adults are particularly vulnerable to the dangers of extreme heat. A majority of heat-related deaths in the United States...

In 2000, Lake Mead was full of deep, midnight-blue water that flooded the banks of the rivers that fed it....