How Trump's 'drill, baby, drill' pledge is affecting other countries

The UN climate summit in the United Arab Emirates in 2023 ended with a call to "transition away from fossil fuels". It was applauded as a historic milestone in global climate action.

Great apes tease each other just like humans do, says new study

[Scientists observed playful teasing in orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas.]

Record January 2025 warmth puzzles climate scientists

Last month was the world's warmest January on record raising further questions about the pace of climate change, scientists say.

January 2025 had been expected to be slightly cooler than January 2024 because of a shift away from a natural weather pattern in the Pacific known as El Niño.

The Caribbean has been unusually warm. That’s not a good thing.

Will the recent trend toward a harsher climate continue?

In the tropical Caribbean Sea region, it’s typically warm and humid on land but rarely endlessly hot — relatively stable water temperatures promote conditions that don’t often change drastically day-to-day or even month-to-month.

But that climate norm has been turned on its head over the past two years, with record-breaking heat that ramped up in the spring of 2023 and has continued unabated since; conditions fueled by human-caused climate change. Many places including Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and others in the archipelago set heat records in 2023 only to see them overturned last year.

An unusually powerful and resilient marine heat wave contributed to keeping the region toasty. But it wasn’t the only factor.

Chlamydia could make koalas extinct. Can a vaccine save them in time?

On the table, unconscious and stretched out on a pillow, Joe Mangy looks deceptively peaceful. The koala's watery, red-rimmed eyes are the only sign of the disease at war with his body.

Tubes snarl out of a mask covering his face as a vet tech listens to his chest with a stethoscope. He is not healing as well as they had hoped.