The loss of Arctic sea ice has already been shown to be part of a positive feedback loop driving climate change, and a recent study…
Global warming
The dramatic melting of Arctic ice is already driving extreme weather that affects hundreds of millions of people across North America, Europe and Asia, leading…
Mere months after atmospheric carbon dioxide permanently surpassed a symbolic threshold of 400 parts per million, scientists have more bad news: emissions of methane, a…
LONDON, 13 December, 2016 – Scientists have calculated the mass of that unnatural achievement called the “technosphere”, demonstrating the scale of human activity that drives…
Global concentrations of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas and cause of climate change, are now growing faster in the atmosphere than at any other time…
MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- Soil, an important part of the carbon cycle, might compound the world's carbon dioxide problem, according to a global study involving Kansas…
The ice sheet covering Greenland is four times bigger than California -- and holds enough water to raise global sea-level more than twenty feet if…
The global warming crisis seems to get worse and worse, faster and faster. Now, Antarctica is in the spotlight with brand-new shocking research of a…
Climate change—and resultant natural disasters, droughts, and sea level rise—"could lead to a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions," senior military figures told the Guardian on…
LONDON—If the world fails to slow the pace of climate change very soon by cutting emissions of the greenhouse gases that are heating the planet,…
The Great Barrier Reef suffered through the worst coral die-off in recorded history this year, scientists found, with unusually warm ocean water and record-setting bleaching eventskilling…
We await the crisis. It could be economic. It could be a terrorist attack within the United States. It could be widespread devastation caused by…