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In a report issued Tuesday, the White House warned that the cost of inaction when it comes to climate change outweighs the cost of implementing more-stringent regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.

The 2014 Atlantic hurricane season is now officially upon us. And it comes in the midst of a historic lull.

A new U.S. government report released Tuesday finds that climate change is already having a broad impact on both weather and the economy.

A new report from the United Nations’ panel on climate change says major action is needed, and fast, if policymakers want to limit global warming to acceptable levels.

“The effects of climate change are already occurring on all continents and across the oceans,” and the world is mostly “ill-prepared” for the risks that the sweeping changes present, a new report from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes.

Saying that “zero tolerance” discipline policies at U.S. schools are unfairly applied “all too often,” Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is urging officials to rethink that approach.

Scientists think they’ve identified the source of a massive volcanic eruption that occurred in A.D. 1257 and spread telltale traces across the globe.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stuck by its earlier prediction today that the summer will bring with it an “above normal” Atlantic hurricane season.