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The windy city may be hot and humid by the end of this century with heatwaves posing a significant health risk.

Evidence of social upheaval and other adverse effects of climate variability in Europe over the past 2,500 years should give pause to people reluctant to mitigate climate change.

Mountains have been posited as a last refuge for species escaping the impacts of a warming climate, but they will have their own casualties, shows a study.

Large-scale deployment of wind, water and solar power could decarbonize our energy system by 2050, academics say.

Accurate reporting of sea-level rise is a welcome success story at the sometimes fraught interface of climate science and mass media.

Rising temperatures may be to blame for the disappearance of a mountain-dwelling mammal.

A historical look at grain growth in North America shows that past generations of farmers have coped with significant climate changes.

A global estimate of the exposure of port cities to climate extremes shows that those in Asia will fare worst in the future.

Plant leaf growth is boosted by carbon dioxide, but can, in turn, slow global warming.

If sea levels rise by more than a metre, many coastal marshes will be submerged by seawater, even those that continue to accrete sediment.

Scientists have proposed a novel strategy to help policymakers identify and overcome obstacles to adaptation.

A global analysis of satellite data suggests that cloud cover accelerates warming, confirming results from climate models.

Consumer behaviour has partly offset improvements in the efficiency of new vehicles over the past few decades.

Short-term success in bolstering the ski industry may not prove effective much longer.

The potential for clean biomass systems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may be overestimated by 30 per cent or more.

To reduce global average temperature, geo-engineering would need extra cooling in the tropics to balance out polar warming.

Irrigation's cooling effect on climate will become more complex with climate change.

An estimate of future US storm-surge damage suggests costs could swell by almost twenty per cent of the current annual average.

Available wind energy is to dwindle with atmospheric warming.

Highly populated regions may be the least affected by a scarcity of water supplied from glaciers.