Research conducted by researchers at the University of Gothenburg shows that people tend to rate their own risk of being ...

(Special to The Root) — Chances are, if you are a person of color, climate change isn’t at the top of your list of concerns. President Barack Obama’s remarks on the issue in his State of the Union ...

A new study by IIASA researchers offers a pioneering way to understand how climate change affects people's lives over the ...

Fabian Lenhard receives funding from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. As headlines about heatwaves, floods and wildfires become more frequent, many people report a growing sense of worry ...

An estimated 1.2 billion people could be forced to migrate by 2050 due to extreme weather and natural disasters related to climate change. The hardships of relocating and sharing limited survival ...

The White House will be going hard on climate change all week, thanks to a new National Climate Assessment report looking at what climate change means for the U.S., short and long-term. And surprise: ...

Environmental factors driven by climate change are already shaping what ends up on Americans' plates and how nutritious it is ...

Climate change is the long-term shift in the Earth's average temperatures and weather conditions. The world has been warming ...

The body is an exquisitely balanced system. We operate optimally at 98.6°F; nudge us up to just 99°F and we already start feeling unwell. It’s no wonder then that if the planet runs a fever we will ...

Activists say climate change is a disability rights issue. It was more than 90 degrees in Moranda Rasmussen's Portland, Oregon, apartment during a historic heat wave late last month when the ...

Kids born in 2020 are more likely to experience “one-in-10,000-year events” throughout their lives. A stark new study published on May 7 in Nature laid bare the extreme climate crises that today’s ...