A U.N. report shows that big nations' fossil-fuel-boosting actions are at odds with their emissions-cutting pledges. They must do better at the COP28 climate summit.

The thorniest issue at the global climate summit in Dubai is clear: Fossil fuels. More precisely, the role they should play in our rapidly warming future. As negotiators thrash out the terms of ...

Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide, which traps heat and causes Earth's temperature to rise. Greenhouse gas emissions cause global warming. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...

Burning fossil fuels has driven climate change, and now climate change is costing people their health and increasingly their lives, says a new report from the prestigious medical journal the Lancet.

What he wrote was a prescient early warning about the consequences of burning fossil fuels. Daniel Patrick Moynihan at his upstate New York farm, 1981. Photograph by James Q. Wilson.