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A U.N. climate conference reached a hard-fought agreement Sunday on a far-reaching program meant to set a new course for the global fight against climate change.

South Africa struggled on Saturday to find a compromise deal that could save U.N. climate talks from collapse.

The British university whose leaked emails caused a global climate science controversy in 2009 says it has discovered a potentially much larger data breach....

Human-caused climate change is responsible for about half of the increased wintertime droughts occurring in the Mediterranean region, says a new U.S.-funded study.

For the clueless or cynical diehards who deny global warming, it’s getting awfully cold out there. The latest icy blast of reality comes from an eminent scientist whom the climate-change skeptics once lauded as one of their own. Richard Muller, a respected physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, used to dismiss alarmist climate research as being “polluted by political and activist frenzy.” Frustrated at what he considered shoddy science, Muller launched his own comprehensive study to set the record straight. Instead, the record set him straight.

President Barack Obama is swiping at Texas Gov. Rick Perry, criticizing him as "a governor whose state is on fire, denying climate change."

Former Vice President Al Gore harshly criticizes President Obama for lack of leadership on climate change in a magazine essay published online Wednesday, saying that he had barely moved American policy on global warming since assuming the presidency from George W. Bush.

White House climate change adviser Carol Browner will step down in coming weeks, Obama administration sources said on Monday.

With narrowing differences over a key issue, verification, there is growing hope of modest success at the U.N. conference.

Environmental groups and industry seem headed for another battle over regulation of greenhouse gases, as President Obama said he will look for ...