Climate Crisis

The Power of Water

The sinking is due to a process known as glacial isostatic adjustment.

A government official talks about the water crisis facing News Orleans because of saltwater intrusion amid record low levels of the Mississippi River.

Madigan Traversi, 18, is now seeking change as a youth climate activist.

This was the hottest summer on record across the globe, forcing many tourists to rethink how and where they travel

Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) is becoming harder but a narrow window remains because clean energy infrastructure has grown around the world, a new report said Tuesday

President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and meet the country’s climate-related commitments in the coming year

Wednesday's announcement comes amid the annual Climate Week.

The GOP candidate called for American "dominance."

They attracted a big crowd of onlookers eager to see the unusual visitors.

Could President Joe Biden’s absence from the UN General Assembly be a win for climate activists?

Outgoing U.N. General Assembly President Csaba Kőrösi talks about the global effort to curb climate change and international support for Ukraine in the ongoing war.

The sailor who became the first American to win “The Ocean Race” in its 50-year history joins ABC News to discuss the critical issue of the ocean’s health.

The United Nations chief says Earth is facing a hellish problem in climate change and its leaders still aren’t doing nearly enough to curb carbon emissions that’s causing it

António Guterres criticized world leaders for not doing more about the climate.

António Guterres criticized world leaders for not doing more about the climate.

A growing number of Americans are finding it difficult to afford insurance on their homes, a problem only expected to worsen because insurers and lawmakers have underestimated the impact of climate change, a new report says

The World Weather Attribution just released a report saying human-caused climate change played a big role in the catastrophic flooding in Libya.

The flooding killed nearly 4,000 people with thousands more missing, according to the U.N.

Human error is another major element that led to the severity of the event.

Tens of thousands of people in New York City have kicked off a week of demonstrations seeking to end the use of coal, oil and natural gas blamed for climate change

Metropolitan regions are already seeing the impacts of global warming.

Suit claims they deceived the public about the risks of fossil fuels.

One analysis found two months above Paris Agreement warming limit.

Several continents simultaneously saw record-high temperatures last month.

This year’s marine heat waves and spiking ocean temperatures foretell big changes in the future for some of the largest fish in the sea, such as sharks, tunas and swordfish

Group of 20 leaders have agreed to triple renewable energy.

Several thousand climate activists blocked a Dutch highway on Saturday in anger at billions of euros in government subsidies for industries that use oil, coal and gas

The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2040.

ABC News’ Devin Dwyer spoke with Montana teen brothers who were part of a group who secured a major legal win on climate change, examining what it could mean for the future of the energy industry.

The U.N. weather agency says Earth endured its hottest Northern summer ever.

Crab fishermen in Alaska have been scrambling to stay afloat after two years of the Bering Sea fishery being closed or severely curtailed due to plummeting crab numbers

The agency says Earth endured its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever.

Africa produces less than 4% percent of global carbon emissions.

Africa produces less than 4% percent of global carbon emissions.

Extreme weather events battered India and the rest of the world this summer.

ABC News’ Ginger Zee reports on the history of climate and politics on “This Week.”

ABC News’ Devin Dwyer reports on how a group of young people from Montana have won a major climate case, arguing the state failed to protect their right to a clean environment.

A top glacier watcher has warned that a warm early summer and a heat wave last week could have caused severe glacier melt across Switzerland, threatening to make 2023 the second-worst year for ice loss after a record thaw last year

The seabirds had their second consecutive rebound year for fledging chicks.

ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee explains how climate change can impact ocean temperatures and storm strength.

Kids advocating for environmental protections should be acknowledged, UN says.

Over half of Europe’s ski resorts will face a severe lack of snow, study finds.

At American University, the climate comedy cohort, consisting of a group of ten comedians, is meeting to workshop their message and their punchlines.

Scientists say the loss of ice around Antarctica is hurting the survival of emperor penguin chicks

Tropical forests are reaching critical thresholds due to climate change.

ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jen Ashton breaks down a new study that shows how dementia could be linked to air pollution from agriculture and wildfires.

Achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 could drastically curb glacial retreat.

Montana officials will now have to consider the environmental impact of greenhouse gas emissions when issuing energy permits after a landmark court ruling.

The court found Montana’s failure to consider climate change when approving fossil fuel projects was unconstitutional.

Decades worth of erosion happened in one weekend, according to NOAA.