The continent records its highest national average temperature, worsening the bushfire threat.

It is a hecatomb in Antarctica: scientists warn about the serial death of thousands of emperor penguin babies. In question, particularly hot weather for three years. The second colony in the world has almost disappeared. Every year, 25,000 emperor penguins gather and form the Halley colony in Antarctica, in southern Argentina. To reproduce and hatch their eggs, they settle on an ice floe.

Flights were canceled. Train service was out. And one of the biggest storms in years was bearing down on Odisha, one of India’s poorest states, where millions of people live cheek by jowl in a low-lying coastal area in mud-and-stick shacks. But government authorities in Odisha, along India’s eastern flank, hardly stood still. To warn people of what was coming, they deployed everything they had: 2.6 million text messages, 43,000 volunteers, nearly 1,000 emergency workers, television commercials, coastal sirens, buses, police officers, and...

Time-lapse video caught the dramatic transformation of day into night as a dust storm swept through the Australian town of Mildura.

Storms in the North Atlantic are lingering longer near the coast, leading to significantly more rainfall.

A major warm spell has caused nearly half the surface of the Greenland ice sheet to start melting, something that’s highly unusual for this time of year. And while this spike may pass, the gears could already be in motion for record-setting melt on the ice sheet’s western flank.

Hot air from north Africa will push temperatures up from this weekend.

Capital Anchorage sees 80-degree weather with nearly 120 fires blazing across the state

The Gulf Coast is being inundated with rain and preparing for possible landfall of a tropical storm. A study of recent hurricanes found that climate change increased rainfall by up to 9 percent.

If no action is taken on climate change, Florida by mid-century could see the heat index soar higher than 100 degrees for almost one-third of the year.

More than 100 intense 'unprecedented' wildfires have ravaged the Arctic since June

A record-breaking heat wave across London, Paris, and Amsterdam is signaling an urgent need for design and cultural changes to combat climate change.

Already heat-stressed countries will see the largest absolute increases in humid-heat and have the least ability to adapt.

As the Arctic faces fire caused by climate change, it could have ripple effects that accelerate temperature increases across the world.

In one of the hottest and fastest-warming American cities, residents adapt their summer schedules to find times when temperatures are more tolerable.

A warmer Arctic in general provided the fuel for lightning-producing thunderheads to move north.

BERLIN (AP) — Meteorologists say July was the hottest month measured on Earth since records began in 1880.

Amid the hottest month in recorded history, some records still stand out as absolutely jaw dropping. That’s definitely true of a measurement made in the Arctic this July.

As summer temperatures rise, more buildings are installing energy-hungry air conditioners – a major contributor to climate change. But are there other ways to cool buildings down?

President Trump declared a state of emergency in Florida on Friday, preemptively easing federal recovery efforts expected for Hurricane Dorian.