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On Tuesday, the city’s Assembly is receiving the 106-page document, which outlines everything from transportation recommendations to emission reduction targets.

Due to the recent devastating drought, soybean production in Uruguay is forecast to drop to 1.7 million tons in 2017-18, according to an April 30 Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

There was plenty of sunshine around Iceland on the last day of April, and the temperature hit 19°C at Þingvellir, Skagafjörður, and Bíldudalur.

Permafrost in some areas of the Canadian Arctic is thawing so fast that it's gulping up the equipment left there to study it.

Earthquake activity near a California volcano has been linked to snowmelt. Researchers at U.S. Geological Survey studied data from 1984 to 2017.

If climate change continues at its current pace, the famous Snæfellsjökull glacier in West Iceland will be all-but completely gone by 2050.

Researchers have determined that, when ground ice is thicker, reindeer make for the coast. They don't eat kelp when they don't have to.

UChicago grad student analyzes ecosystem changes due to climate change on clams, snails, worms, crabs, urchins, starfish and more

Warming trend means Arkansas River won't meet demand.

Since 1972, the giant island’s ice sheet has lost 11 quadrillion pounds of water.

As their population grows worldwide, the birds are destroying the habitat of other waterfowl.

A team of researchers at York University has warned that the American bumblebee is facing imminent extinction from Canada, and this could lead to “cascading impacts” throughout the country.

The Pacific Ocean off the California coast is mixed up, and so are many of the animals that live there.

“Climate change is happening faster than it’s ever happened before in our record,” Utquiagvik-based NOAA scientist Bryan Thomas said. “We’re right in the middle of it.”

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — More than a dozen wild bee species critical to pollinating everything from blueberries to apples in New England are on the decline, according to a new study. Researchers...

Researchers are using data from the “Submit-a-Tick” program to model where non-native ticks might thrive in future decades as climate conditions change.

The number of people calling the Swedish Poisons Information Centre about snake bites rose sharply in 2018 and is expected to continue its upward slide ...

If you're eagerly waiting for springtime you can count on the wait being one week shorter compared to the last 100 years.

This spring has seen record-breaking warm temperatures across Alaska. In the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, the Kuskokwim River is melting early — with devastating consequences.

The people in Yukon's northernmost community are watching the effects of climate change unfold firsthand. Now the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation is going to do something about it.