New dietary guidelines put a limit on added sugar, and changed their tune on dietary cholesterol. Good news for egg lovers.

The government no longer requires Country of Origin Labeling on meat, and the USDA has rescinded a grass-fed beef label.

On the heels of the government's dietary guidelines, Environmental Working Group releases its own version, free from food industry interference.

A petition to to the USDA to allow food stamps to be used online could make affordable, healthy foods easily available to people in food deserts.

SNAP recipients in certain states will be able to buy groceries from designated retailers during the 2-year pilot.

The USDA is asking makers of meat, dairy and egg products to stop using "sell by" and "use by" dates and adopt a universal "best if used by" label.

The new USDA label for "bioengineered food" doesn't answer basic questions that some shoppers will have about genetically modified foods.

U.S. Cattlemen's Association has filed a petition to USDA arguing that lab-grown and plant-based meat startups shouldn't be able to call their products meat.

USDA releases final rules for GMOs in our food, but they call them bioengineered foods instead. Here's what you need to know.

The melt-off from the world's ice sheets, ice caps and glaciers over eight years of the past decade would have been enough to cover the United States in about 1

It may take less of an increase in global temperatures to melt the ice sheet covering Greenland than thought, new research suggests.

As the Arctic warms, meltwater lakes on the Greenland ice sheet are draining to sea more frequently — potentially lubricating the slide of the ice sheet into

As the old ice of Earth melts, photographers have captured its decline. Here are eight stunning before-and-after images detailing ice melts across our planet.

Wild geoengineering schemes may aim to reverse global warming by reflecting sunlight into space or storing excess carbon dioxide, but they won't spare humanity

On Aug. 8, the Greenland ice sheet shattered a seasonal record, with more cumulative melting since record-keeping began more than three decades ago, new researc

This summer the North Carolina Senate passed a bill banning researchers from reporting predicted increases in the rate of sea level rise. But the ocean, unbound

With a focus on solar, schools and citizen entrepreneurs, Global Green USA formally announces its plan to help devastated-by-Sandy communities in New York and N

Scientists say the consequences of sea-level rise could be 'horrible.'

Pine Island Glacier holds back part of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet, whose thinning ice is contributing to sea level rise.

The world's best beach resorts may disappear despite efforts to protect them against sea level rise

Sharp reductions in short-lived airborne pollutants could significantly slow sea level rise before 2100

A new report from Climate Central finds that most of the overflow was caused by coastal flooding, which was made worse by rising sea levels.

A new study shows that coral reef-building is more complex than Darwin thought.

NASA's new map combined radar, sound waves and electromagnetic instruments to peer beneath Antarctica's ice.

The projections paint an unsettling picture of New York's future: A city where by the 2050s, 800,000 people could be living in a flood zone.

The mission aims to track the potential impact of methane and carbon dioxide emissions on climate change.

The melting was part of an annual summer thaw, typical in size and timing for the season.

Georgia’s coast is currently protected from hurricanes by a series of barrier islands, but their value is decreasing as sea levels rise.

Could the plight of one Kiribati family foreshadow a future inundated with climate-change castaways?

Protecting private property by replenishing storm-damaged beaches may be an exercise in futility

A new study shows that 20 percent of UNESCO World Heritage Sites are at risk, bringing to light the cultural implications of climate change.

This winter, the Arctic ice cap expanded to a total of 5.76 million square miles — one of the lowest areas on record since 1979.

If a small chunk of ice currently plugging the edge of an ice sheet in Antarctica were to melt, it could release massive amounts of ice into the ocean.

The catastrophic collapse of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet is underway.

As ice melts, Antarctica's ground is rebounding at a surprising rate. Scientists think it's because the Earth's mantle is flowing faster there.

Antarctica's melting glaciers launched so many icebergs into the ocean 14,600 years ago that sea level rose 6.5 feet in just 100 years.

As if rising sea levels and more intense weather weren't bad enough. The newest negative effect of climate change? The rising dead.

Arctic sea ice — the ice that freezes and floats on Arctic waters — is thinning at a steadier and faster rate than researchers previously thought.

One of the states most at risk from climate change has reportedly banned officials from using the phrase 'climate change.'

Eko Atlantic will be the modern face of Nigeria, for better or for worse.

From N.H. to Nova Scotia, Ancient forests emerge only during rare periods of extreme low tide.

Longer days are yet another profound consequence of global warming.

These are just a sample of the things we could lose if temperatures rise 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 200 years.

Climate Chronograph is a memorial that sinks as sea levels rise.

Increased sea ice drift forces polar bears to expend more energy walking on a fast-moving 'treadmill' of sea ice.

Geologists say they have found a range of volcanoes beneath the ice of Antarctica that rival those of east Africa and North America.

While rising sea levels ultimately influence the entire planet, they pose the greatest threat to the islands sitting at sea level.

A small island in Louisiana where peppers are grown for Tabasco sauce is losing land to rising sea levels.

Not only can coral reefs buffer humans from disasters, but protecting them is 15 times cheaper than building sea walls.

Antarctica ice loss was only contributing 0.2 millimeters per year to sea level rise, but that number has jumped to 0.6 millimeters since 2012.