Here's an item to help governments point fingers at the next climate-change conference: a map of the world's countries, scaled to highlight those disproportionately responsible for generating ...

Some places will shift from a Mediterranean climate to a more desert-like one, the map shows. Above, an abandoned Mojave Desert school in Amboy, Calif. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) Imagine it's ...

The study of climate change refugia — places that are buffered from the worst effects of global warming — has grown rapidly ...

WASHINGTON -- Global warming is hitting not just home, but garden. The color-coded map of planting zones often seen on the back of seed packets is being updated by the government, illustrating a ...

Given record-setting heat waves around the world in recent years, an international team of researchers led by scientists at UC Santa Cruz investigated if the rate of global warming has increased ...

Earth may be on the verge of crossing several climate change tipping points that could have irreversible and devastating consequences. Here's everything you need to know about these "points of no ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Global warming is hitting not just home, but garden. The government's colorful map of planting zones, most often seen on the back of seed packets, is changing, illustrating a hotter ...

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. Hundreds of ...

Polls disagree on numbers but show that Americans paying attention. June 16, 2010 — -- Is the glass half empty, or half full? Public opinion polls on global warming seem to be all over the map ...

Imagine it's a Saturday morning in Santa Monica in the year 2080. You brew your coffee, open your front door and breathe in the hot, dry air of ... San Bernardino? That's the potential future if ...