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

Overall death toll in floods that hit western Europe rises to 208; Merkel says costs are 'immense,' promises reconstruction plan that is expected to cost billions

With torrential downpours causing multiple landslides, some 200,000 residents were evacuated from Zhengzhou, which saw the equivalent of a year's rain in just three days

Fleur de Passion, which left Eilat on Tuesday, hit a reef early Wednesday, forcing Egyptian navy to evacuate scientists and crew to Sharm el-Sheikh

Haze hangs over New York City, New Jersey and Pennsylvania as result of massive blazes 2,500 miles away

Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, hit by 20 centimeters (8 inches) of rain in one hour, turning streets into rivers in heaviest rainfall in 60 years

Multi-national mission will spend four summers in unprecedented project to assess health of Red Sea's threatened reefs, all on a boat originally built by the Nazis to lay mines