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With the expense of mitigating the effects of climate change becoming more onerous, more than two dozen cities, counties and states are suing more than 40 fossil fuel companies, accusing them of making false and misleading claims about climate change.
When someone starts powering their home with solar energy and stops buying power from their local utility, many like to think they've "gone off the grid." But in many areas, they're not as independent as you might think. Barry Petersen has more.
Harvard Law professor Richard J. Lazarus writes about the most important environmental cases ever decided by the nation's highest court: restricting greenhouse gas emissions from new cars.
The golden toad was the first species where climate change has been identified as a key driver of extinction.
Touring devastation in Kwa-Zulu Natal province, President Cyril Ramaphosa promised residents that help was coming. But there's more rain coming, too.
Over a 100 years after the sinking of the Titanic, the government is unveiling new technology to detect icebergs that may be hazardous to ships.
"I have to be honest, we are no longer expecting survivors," said the mayor of one town virtually swept off the map by a wall of mud.
As floods swept away homes and cars in Australia, online rumors claimed an aviation company documenting the damage was dropping chemicals to "activate rain."
Levels of carbon dioxide also increased at a "historically high rate," NOAA said.
"It is a file of shame, cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track towards an unlivable world," U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.
And it's got scientists worried. The shelf was the size of New York City. East Antarctica is an area long thought to be stable and not hit much by climate change.
"I know eliminating Russian gas will have costs for Europe," President Biden said as he announced more shipments from the U.S., "but it's the right thing to do."
New SEC proposal requires companies to spell out bottom-line impacts of everything from floods to rising fuel costs.
Antonio Guterres said the "all-of-the-above' strategy now being pursued by major economies to end fossil fuel imports from Russia could kill hopes of keeping global warming below dangerous levels.
One geoscientist says it's "a Pacific Northwest 2021 heat wave kind of event. Never supposed to happen."
Water agencies that serve 27 million people and 750,000 acres of farmland will get just 5% of what they've requested this year.
Earth's largest living structure may be heading for its sixth mass bleaching event since 1997. The bleaching is caused by unusually warm sea temperatures.
The NOAA said this spring's drought represents the largest the country has seen since 2013.
Wildfires are larger, more frequent and more widespread in the last 20 years than they have been before.
As prices at the pump surge, GOP leaders see the suspended oil pipeline as a solution. But the answer isn't so simple.
As the world warms, allergy season will last longer and pollen levels could as much as triple in some places, a new study says.
An Australian appeals court overturned a ruling that said the environment minister had a duty to protect young people from the impact of global warming.
These images paint a startling picture of the environmental changes afoot across the globe as temperatures rise.
U.N. chief calls failure to address issue head-on nothing short of "criminal."
The browntail moth is a scourge in America's most forested state, where it defoliates trees and causes a rash in humans that resembles poison ivy.
One bright spot is green sea turtles, which have recovered substantially, the IUCN said as it released its latest Red List of Threatened Species.
As Japan faces rising human-bear encounters, an animal trapped in a grocery store injured two men, while a separate reported mauling proved fatal.
The images taken by two Mars orbiters show a bright, fuzzy white dot of the comet, also known as 3I/ATLAS, appearing to move against a backdrop of distant stars.
One of 2025's three Nobel Prize in Physics winners says the trio's work is "one of the underlying reasons that cellphones work.''
Bill Nye the Science Guy on Monday protested against a federal budget proposal that would see NASA's funding reduced from $24 billion to $18.8 billion.
Nobel Prize committee chair says discoveries by the trio of researchers were "decisive for our understanding of how the immune system functions."
The first supermoon of 2025 will arrive soon. Here's what to know about the phenomenon.
ESO's Very Large Telescope has observed a rogue planet and revealed that it is eating up gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of 6 billion tons a second.
Enceladus has long been considered a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth because of its hidden ocean and plumes of water erupting from cracks near its south pole.
Famed naturalist Jane Goodall, who dedicated her life to studying chimpanzees and protecting the environment, died on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025 at age 91. In this Oct. 24, 2021 "Sunday Morning" profile, she talked with Seth Doane about her fascination with animals, her groundbreaking work with primates, and her advocacy for a more sustainable future.
The outer bands of Humberto lashed Bermuda ahead of a more direct pass from the newer and stronger Hurricane Imelda.
The chirping of crickets in your backyard can be a soothing seasonal sound, but did you know it's also an accurate way to tell the temperature – if you know the mathematical formula? Robert Krulwich and puppeteer Barnaby Dixon explain.
The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.
The study's author said "there is some irony" in the discovery that these "things that are meant to kill everything are now attracting so much life."
Scientist and professor Justin Gregg joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss his new book, "Human-ish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals About the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize." He explains why we talk to pets, name objects, and even connect with inflatable tube men — and what that reveals about human nature.