The Data Foundation, the American Geophysical Union, and a coalition of universities are scrambling to ensure that the nation accurately assesses the growing dangers of global warming.

Gutting the National Climate Assessment is just one way the Trump administration is undermining the legal justification to limit greenhouse gas emissions

What the Inter-American Court’s recent advisory opinion tells us about the past, present, and future of climate change policy and litigation

After the International Court of Justice ruled this week that countries are required to cut emissions in the name of climate change, the White House gave a simple reply: "America first." Any decision from the court is non-binding,

While Trump has infamously mocked climate change as “a great hoax,” the ICJ unanimously declared that international law obliges “the protection of the climate system."

While the White House takes a sledgehammer to critical climate policy, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights announced a landmark decision on climate change and human rights.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gautam Jain, Columbia University (THE CONVERSATION) As the U.S. prepares for ...

The International Court of Justice called global warming an “urgent and existential threat” at a closely watched case in The Hague.

In addition to exiting the Paris Agreement again, Trump could try to withdraw the United States from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The 1992 treaty is the foundation ...

In a surprising move, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has prepared a plan that could remove its own power to fight climate change. This plan focuses on getting rid of an important rule from 2009 called the “endangerment finding.