A new study finds that if global warming exceeds the Paris Climate Agreement targets, the non-polar glacier mass will diminish significantly. However, if warming is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius, at ...

Global warming has picked up speed over the past decade, and the consequences are no longer confined to glaciers or distant ...

Even if you live far from the boreal forests in Canada and Siberia, you've likely noticed an increase in smoke from their forest fires. During major blazes in 2023, the smoke tinted the New York sky ...

Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice age. As the planet warms, nutrient-rich runoff fuels plankton blooms that ...

Scientists have long warned that the planet is warming. Now, new research suggests it may be warming faster than previously understood. A study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters ...

In humanity’s ambitious quest to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels, scientists have relied on an estimated temperature rise of 0.2 degrees Celsius per ...

Despite rapid progress in clean energy and electric vehicles, the world is still warming faster than ever. The good news is that we already have powerful ways to reduce the warming rate – if ...

Chinese air quality improvements are likely to have contributed to accelerated global surface temperature warming, according to a research paper, with the Asian landmass warming at twice the global ...

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The rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past four decades, warns a new study. Sea surfaces are heating up four times faster now than in the 1980s, say scientists. Research shows ...