The UN's climate chief, seeking to shore up solidarity on combating global warming as the United States retreats from its ...

Reductions in air pollution have helped warm the planet by cutting down on reflective particles in the atmosphere – but ...

Holding long-term global warming to two degrees Celsius—the fallback target of the Paris climate accord—is now “impossible,” ...

The rapid meltdown of polar ice could shut down a key ocean current by 2050, triggering catastrophic surges of sea level rise along the U.S. East Coast and dangerous climate shifts in northwestern ...

In a new analysis, acclaimed climate scientist Professor James Hansen and colleagues said that scientists had greatly underestimated the rate of global ...

Global average temperatures for 2024 were around 1.6C above those of the pre-industrial period - the time before humans ...

The paleoclimate record combined with global models shows past ice ages as well as periods even warmer than today. But the paleoclimate record also reveals that the current climatic warming is ...

The last two years saw average global temperatures exceed a critical warming limit for the first time, Europe's climate monitor said Friday, as the UN demanded ...

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How can we be certain that human-released greenhouse gases are causing the warming? How much more will the Earth warm? How will Earth respond? Answering these questions is perhaps the most significant ...

Levels of the most significant planet-warming gas in our atmosphere rose more quickly than ever previously recorded last year ...

The last two years saw average global temperatures exceed a critical warming limit for the first time, Europe's climate monitor said Friday, as the UN demanded "trail-blazing" climate action.