Goals commit state to slashing net global warming gas emissions by 85% by 2050, relative to 2015; Greenpeace: Unambitious aims 'a disgrace'

Scientists find temperature records being broken by rapid tempo of warming rather than amount of greenhouse gasses in atmosphere, warn conditions to worsen in coming decades

Tel Aviv University's Steinhardt Museum of Natural History sets out to explain global warming, why it's bad, and what we can do to save the planet

Proposal includes targets for a 96 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in transportation, 85 percent in electricity sector and 92 percent in municipal waste

A comptroller report in June found cities woefully unready for 2020's deadly deluges; and though leaders say they take the issue seriously, funding for preparedness remains elusive

A basic primer on the science behind global warming and why Israel's location makes it particularly susceptible to the effects of a heating planet

Residents of one small village wander through its ruins looking shell-shocked, scared and exhausted

Around 15,000 members of German emergency services, police and army on the ground in worst-hit areas; in devastated Ahrweiler district, around 1,300 people unaccounted for

Bar-Ilan University researchers covered two buildings in greenery and left another bare in what they say is the first serious study of live plants' climate-regulating benefits

With its water dams crucially low, Hasmheite Kingdom, among world's most water-deficient places, fears a warming planet will make the situation even more severe