From left to right, construction worker Rohit Kumar Paswan, boiler plant worker Bhim Singh, and tailor Kajalben all face extreme heat at work. From the story “Killer Heat’s Shadow: India’s Labourers ...

UCLA researchers have released an alarming new finding — the duration of heat waves is increasing faster than global warming ...

Nearly two years after one of the planet’s rarest fish began washing up dead in the Lower Keys, scientists investigating the ...

A new study shows heatwaves are lasting longer and accelerating with each degree of warming - especially in tropical regions.

Computers decode the language of the ocean, revealing its complex patterns and transforming how we understand marine ...

With temperatures soaring across Italy, staff at Rome’s zoo are handing out ice-filled treats to help animals beat the ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

The fabled city of Atlantis, long dismissed as mere myth, may finally have been discovered—just two miles off the coast of ...

The Eiffel Tower closed early on Tuesday as a sweltering heat wave gripped parts of Europe. The attraction closed at 4 p.m. local time — with last entry at 2:30 p.m. — as temperatures reached ...

The intensifying and expansive heat wave affecting around 150 million people in the United States from Wisconsin to Washington, DC, bears the hallmarks of human-caused global warming.

It's going to be hot all over the nation with record temps in parts of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. Florida will get its share, too.

Unusual heat waves have occurred in all of the major ocean basins around the planet in recent years. And some of these events have become so intense that scientists have coined a new term: super ...