(Special to The Root) — Chances are, if you are a person of color, climate change isn’t at the top of your list of concerns. President Barack Obama’s remarks on the issue in his State of the Union ...

A new study by IIASA researchers offers a pioneering way to understand how climate change affects people's lives over the ...

Research conducted by researchers at the University of Gothenburg shows that people tend to rate their own risk of being affected by climate change as lower than that of others. This perception may ...

An estimated 1.2 billion people could be forced to migrate by 2050 due to extreme weather and natural disasters related to climate change. The hardships of relocating and sharing limited survival ...

Tens of millions of people are in the path of a major winter storm. Federal cuts threaten efforts to understand the causes of such weather.

Climate change is the long-term shift in the Earth's average temperatures and weather conditions. The world has been warming ...

Fabian Lenhard receives funding from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. As headlines about heatwaves, floods and wildfires become more frequent, many people report a growing sense of worry ...

We found the psychological impetus people need to take action on climate change — realizing it will affect them and their way of life personally. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Activists say climate change is a disability rights issue. It was more than 90 degrees in Moranda Rasmussen's Portland, Oregon, apartment during a historic heat wave late last month when the ...