World leaders will be warned of a full-blown climate emergency over 2 weeks of climate talks aimed at stepping up countries’ ambitions against climate change, theBBC reports.  

Air pollution is now as deadly as tobacco, according to the Lancet Countdown Report detailing concerning connections between climate change and health, Deutsche Welle reports.

At the start of the UN General Assembly this week in New York, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stepped into an “air pollution pod” and visibly struggled to breathe.   This is often our first thought of…

Another central discussion at the UNGA: Climate change, with African leaders angling for the UN to declare a global emergency, Thomson Reuters Foundation reports.  

Today, students from New Delhi to New York are gathering for the largest global climate protests to date, AFP reports.  

In 2014, NPR reported a rise in chronic kidney disease of unknown origin among young, healthy Central American laborers.

July was the hottest month since records began in 1880, according to the latest assessment from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, AP reports.  

There's no shortage of reminders about the Earth's fate if warming reaches 2 degrees Celsius.   But warming is not spread evenly, and swaths of the globe have already reached that threshold or are close to it, a Washington Post analysis of "2C hotspots."  

Climate change and unprecedented exploitation of earth’s resources are endangering humans’ ability to feed a still-growing global population, according to a UN report released today.

The impact of climate change in India now extends to weddings.   In rural regions, families of young women are rejecting the proposals of suitors, whose earning prospects as farmers or laborers have become increasingly dim due to drought-ruined crops and dry reservoirs.   “…