As seen in this clip from NBC News, the killer storm that pummeled the East Monday and left the nation's largest city with a crippled transit system, widespread power outages and severe flooding has resurfaced the debate about how best to protect a city like New York against rising storm surges.

Millions of people are facing a long, difficult road to recovery after Irma’s week-long deadly rampage through the Caribbean and southeastern United States.

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres says a major new report on climate change is a "survival guide for humanity". Clean energy and technology can be exploited to avoid the growing climate disaster, the report says. But at a meeting in Switzerland to agree their findings, climate scientists warne...

A United Nations report warns that climate change and global warming are threatening the world's food supply. CNN's Bill Weir travels to Iowa to see how some American farmer's unusual and innovative measures to continue to grow food as they grapple with lower crop yields.

Our 2019 Outlook Report highlights the urgent need for our continued and accelerated action to improve the long-term outlook for the Great Barrier Reef. It is the third in a series of comprehensive reports on Reef health and management over 10 years, with the long-term outlook for the Reef’s ecosyst

"The Invasion" of the Fire Island Pines is now an annual tradition and a day of joy. But Thom Hansen was there when it began as a protest. Americans across the country have many traditions when it comes to celebrating Independence Day. But it’s possible that none are as distinctive as Cherry Grove’s

Exxon research scientists warned about the effects of fossil fuels as early as 1977. Exxon has known about climate change for almost 40 years, despite its efforts to continue to promote fossil fuels and deny its existence throughout the 1990s as a leader of the Global Climate Coalition.

After ferrying over to the beach community of Fire Island last summer, we attended the inaugural Fire Island Opera Festival.

Catch the incredible moment when a new island was born a thousand kilometres south of Japan's capital Tokyo. The new island has been forced up by an underwater volcanic eruption.

An effort to restore mangroves is underway in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula with a group of women working to restore a vital ecosystem under threat from development and climate change.