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Average daytime temperatures in Guatemala have risen over the past decade, while crop-damaging frosts are more common.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch covers an area twice the size of Texas or three times the size of France.

The Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska has a climate change adaptation plan. It wants the region to be included in the climate change discussion.

'There's nothing good about them.' They carry disease and cause billions in damage

The average temperature for the entire country was 1.2 degrees above normal in March. It is thus the twelfth month in a row that the temperature in Norway has been above normal.

Recent storms have destroyed the progress made in ice formation endangering coastal habitats and fishing practices.

Last year's drought summer resulted in halved grass crops in Eastern Norway compared to the previous year, according to recent figures from Statistics Norway. - The consequences of the drought continue to affect the daily lives of many farmers, says Lars Petter Bartnes, leader of the Norwegian Farmers' Union.

Fish provide a vital source of protein for over half the world's population, with over 56 million people employed by or subsisting on fisheries. But climate change is beginning to disrupt the complex, interconnected systems that underpin this major source of food.

Fish populations are declining as oceans warm, putting a key source of food and income at risk for millions of people, according to new research.

As Australia faces historic drought conditions, the impacts of climate change are increasingly difficult to ignore.

The winter commercial crabbing season in the Norton Sound will begin February 25 with a quota less than half of its 2018 figure and a third of the 2017 quota.

If the trend of reduced ice on the world's lakes continues at its current pace, the Canadian tradition of shinny could become a thing of the past, according to new research.

Climate change has opened region up for more of the year

2018 was “the fourth-warmest year in Nome’s weather history,” says climate specialist Rick Thoman. In fact, for most places in Western Alaska, 2018 ranked among the top five warmest years on record…

In some regions, this was the first time in 37 years of water surveys that there was no cold pool.

Norman Yakeleya is calling for an emergency meeting with the federal and territorial governments to discuss the threat of chronic wasting disease (CWD) with the potential to decimate northern caribou herds.

A new report says Alaska and the Arctic are on the front lines of climate change, outpacing the rest of the globe.

A new study shows loss of habitat in Canada’s Peace-Athabasca Delta is likely responsible for the decline of semi-aquatic muskrat, and could have larger implications.

An unprecedented drought in Afghanistan has led to families selling their children just to be able to feed their households.

PORTLAND, Maine -- Valuable species of shellfish have become harder to find on the East Coast because of degraded habitat caused by a warming environment, according to a pair of scientists that sought to find out whether environmental factors or overfishing was the source of the decline. The scientists reached ...