Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

Without stringent emissions cuts the world is ‘most probably’ already within the period defined in the Paris accord ...

Although the climate goals set by the Paris Agreement are based on the long-term average temperature, one year of high ...

Earth passed the 1.5°C warming limit in 2024. The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world.

New research at NAU looks at faster warming in the Arctic, and highlights concern about risks to the U.S. of a political ...

The planet has been shattering heat records for the past two years. That was expected to ease in January—and the fact that it ...

Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation, smoke and the atmosphere. The authors find that increasing greenhouse ...

Earth is crossing the 1.5°C limit outlined in the Paris Agreement, beyond which scientists predict catastrophic harm to ...

January 2025 was the hottest on record—a whole 1.7°C above pre-industrial levels. If many climate-watchers expected the world ...

Could a sudden drop in pollution from cargo vessels criss-crossing global shipping lanes be inadvertently making the world ...

Just half a degree rise of global warming will triple the size of the area of Earth that is considered to be too hot for ...

Despite 2023 and 2024 being the warmest years on record, extreme cold events are still affecting regions across China, Europe ...